It is officially Brain Awareness Week 2018! Founded by the Dana Foundation, Brain Awareness Week (BAW) is the global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research. Every March, this year falling on 12-18 March, BAW unites the efforts of partner organizations worldwide in a celebration of the brain for [...]
EBC will be present again this year at the 26th European Congress of Psychiatry to be held in Nice, France from 3-6 March 2018. Every year, EPA’s Congress brings together expert clinical psychiatrists, researchers and leaders of stakeholder organizations in the field of mental health. The 2018 Congress motto is Mental Health: Integrate, Innovate, Individualise. [...]
Registration for this year's EBC Brain Awareness Week 2018 outreach event is now open. On 15 March 2018, EBC will once again hold an event at the European Parliament in Strasbourg to mark Brain Awareness Week 2018, based on our highly successful outreach event at the Parliament last year, this year under the title Expanding brain research in [...]
The European Brain Council wishes you all the best in 2018. We have an exciting year ahead of us here at EBC, and we look forward to everything unfolding over the year. We have plenty projects in the works and underway, and events already coming up. We look forward to seeing you at the EPA [...]
The Estonian Presidency Research Conference “Embedding digital into societal challenges” was held at the Residence Palace in Brussels on the 7th of December. The presentations revolved around how digital technologies can address societal challenges in domains like healthcare, energy, transportation and bioeconomy. Additionally, attendees discussed the potential of digitalization for acceleration innovation and delivering services, [...]
On 13th December 2017, the European Brain Council (EBC) participated in a roundtable on the use of off-label medicines in Rome, Italy. This was the first of a series of national roundtables to be organised by the Good Off-Label Use Practice (GOLUP) coalition. Over 20 stakeholders representing the medical, patient and research communities attended the [...]
Today marks the launch of the statement “Prioritising patient safety and public health across Europe post Brexit”, written in cooperation with the European Brain Council (EBC). The statement is currently supported by 14 pan-European organizations and was unanimously endorsed by EBC's constituency on the occasion of the EBC General Assembly held on 23rd November. Written [...]
EBC was invited to take part in the 11th European Headache Federation Congress this past weekend, 1-3 December, in Rome, Italy. EHF was part of the headache working group within EBC's recently launched research project, the Value of Treatment for Brain Disorders in Europe. EHF dedicates its efforts to improving awareness of headache disorders and [...]
The first congress of the European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM) was held from 27-30 November in Belfast, UK. The event included contributions from over 200 speakers, who represented a broad range of disciplines and disease areas. Big data, precision care, personalized medicine in clinical trials, health literacy and the balance between patient safety and [...]
EBC Board Meeting #4 and General Assembly #2 22nd - 23rd November 2017 University Foundation Rue d’Egmont, 11 - BE-1000 Brussels Last week EBC held its final Board Meeting and General Assembly of 2017. It was a full two days starting with the Digital Health event at the European Parliament, and leading into the election [...]
