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2024 WHO European Health Report
On 24 February 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its 2024 European Health Report, marking the end of the European Programme of Work 2020-2025 and reflecting on key achievements and major public health challenges the European region is facing. It is structured into several sections, covering topics such as non-communicable diseases and mental health. The European Brain Council [...]
Save the date for the 2025 Brain Innovation Days
The European Brain Council (EBC) is pleased to announce that the 5th edition of the Brain Innovation Days will take place on 15-16 October 2025 at La Tricoterie in Brussels! The Brain Innovation Days, led by EBC, originate from a collaboration between the scientific and business communities, uniting to highlight opportunities within the brain space. Researchers, clinicians, industry professionals, and [...]
Canada’s 2025 G7: A Call to Action
In 2025, under Canada’s leadership, the G7 has an unprecedented opportunity and responsibility to place brain health and brain skills at the heart of global economic strategy. The economy runs on “brain capital”, the combined power of brain health and cognitive skills. Yet, it remains largely absent from major policy discussions. At a time of workforce disruptions, AI-driven change, [...]
Registration now open for Brain Awareness Week event in European Parliament
On 18 March 2025, EBC is pleased to invite you to the Brain Health Plans Summit, an event dedicated to the establishment of brain health plans. This event is particularly timely, as it fully resonates with EBC’s current involvement in an EU thematic network “Towards an EU Coordination Plan for the Brain”, its engagement with National Brain Councils in [...]
Brain Health on the Global Stage in Davos During World Economic Forum 2025
The World Economic Forum (WEF)'s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland has long been a leading gathering where global leaders in business, policymaking and activism converge to address critical international challenges. This year's meeting, held from January 20 to 24, 2025, focused on the theme "Collaboration for the Intelligent Age", with priorities including rebuilding trust, reimagining growth, and safeguarding the [...]
Transforming Sovereign Wealth to Mental Wealth – Norway’s Social Production Report Launches during the World Economic Forum
The Mental Wealth Initiative (MWI), in partnership with esteemed collaborators from the European Brain Council, Norwegian Brain Council, the European Policy Centre, the World Bank, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, and the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association, proudly announce the release of their report, "The Value of Social Production in Norway," during the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, [...]
Perspective Paper Event at the European Parliament on 3 December 2024
We are at a historical crossroads in the management of Alzheimer’s disease, with new treatments becoming available in various countries. For the first time in history, science is delivering new, potentially disease-modifying treatments for devastating diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. However, the current healthcare system and regulatory frameworks do not easily allow the implementation of [...]
Public Consultation – European Charter for the Responsible Development of Neurotechnologies
Neurotechnologies have great potential to foster brain health and have proved effective both in the diagnosis and management of neurological and psychiatric diseases. The growing accessibility and portability of neurotechnologies have expanded their use beyond the medical field and into the general consumer market (work, education, entertainment and marketing), which raise crucial ethical and societal issues – notably in [...]
EBC at the Congress of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies 2024!
The European Brain Council had the chance to attend the European Associations of Neurosurgical Societies 2024 Congress which was held from 13-17 October 2024 in Sofia (Bulgaria). Attended by 2.000 neurosurgeons from Europe and all over the world, the EANS Annual Congress is the main meeting point of the European Neurosurgical Community, and the connecting link between European Neurosurgery [...]
Second webinar of EBC-led EU Health Policy Platform Thematic Network, “Towards an EU Coordination Plan for the Brain”
On November 7, EBC was pleased to host its second webinar, as part of the Thematic Network "Towards an EU Coordination Plan for the Brain" under the EU Health and Food Safety's Policy Platform.After an introduction from Prof. Suzanne L Dickson, President of the European Brain Council, Dr. Katrin Seeher (WHO's Brain Health Unit) detailed the World Health Organization's response [...]