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Brain Innovation Days: Pitch Competition Finalists Announced
The Brain Innovation Days team is excited to announce the Pitch Competition Finalists of the first-ever Brain Innovation Days Pitch Competition, to be held on 26 January at 12:30 - 14:30. The Pitch Competition will take place during the second Brain Innovation Days digital event, that falls under the theme "From Innovative Ideas to Creative Brain Interventions", drawing focus on [...]
Registration for the 2nd Brain Innovation Days event open!
The European Brain Council and beLean.net are very pleased to announce that free registration is now open for the second Brain Innovation Days digital event to be held on 26 January 2021 at 12:30-14:30. After a successful digital launch on 13 October 2020 kicking off one full year of a packed brain innovation agenda under the overarching theme "Disrupt and rewire: How brain innovation [...]
Value of Treatment 2: working sessions report
The Value of Treatment (VOT) research project, initiated and coordinated by EBC, aims to identify treatment gaps and causing factors along the care pathway and propose solutions to address them; assess health gains and socio-economic impacts resulting from best practice healthcare interventions, in comparison with current care or no treatment. Furthermore, its objective is to converge evidence to policy. In [...]
Campaigning for a European Year for Mental Health
In a meeting of the MEP Alliance for Mental Health, held on 10 November, representatives of mental health-related organisations and MEPs underlined the need and voiced their support for a dedicated European Year for Mental Health, to be instigated in the short term. Background to this event, organised by GAMIAN-Europe, is the general and pressing need to ensure [...]
The Brain Innovation Days kick off today: a 1-year journey to discover the future of brain research
The Brain Innovation Days launch as an online event on 13 October 2020, which will be followed by a series of digital sessions and a physical event in 2021. The European Brain Council and beLean.net launch the first ever Brain Innovation Days, set to launch virtually on 13 October 2020, kicking off one full year of a packed brain innovation agenda. This lunchtime interactive session will fall under the [...]
Event report: EBC Sessions at Digitalscience@UNGA75
The sciencedigital@UNGA75 series of virtual side events organised within the context of the 75th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA75) was held from 24 September to 2 October 2020. The central theme of these activities was to advance awareness of the role and contribution of science and digital technologies to the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In [...]
6th National Brain Councils Academia
On the 29th September 2020, the National Brain Councils active in the “Share4Brain” EU project (Erasmus+) organized a virtual session with the auspices of the European Brain Council. Monica di Luca, EBC President, talked about the challenges that the EU will face to combat the rapid expansion of brain diseases. Frédericq Destrebecq, EBC Executive Director, had the opportunity to [...]
Registration now open for the Brain Innovation Days!
The time has come! Registration is now open for the digital launch of the Brain Innovation Days, to be held on 13 October 2020 at 12:30-14:30. This lunchtime interactive session will fall under the overarching theme, "Disrupt and rewire: how brain innovation is changing Europe" and will bring together key opinion leaders, researchers, regulators, policymakers, start-ups, innovators, clinicians and more. Speakers will explore and answer the question: why is brain innovation [...]
EBC provides feedback to European Commission on draft of first Horizon Europe Work Programme of the Health Cluster
In August, the European Brain Council (EBC) was able to provide feedback and input to the European Commission on the draft of the “First Horizon Europe Work Programme 2021-2022 of the Health Cluster”. An overarching first response to the draft Work Programme was composed, representing the views of the brain research community as a whole. The Horizon Europe Health cluster [...]
EBC echoes EU Health Coalition statement on budget negotiations
The European Brain Council (EBC), as part of the EU Health Coalition, joins in expressing regret on the initial outcome of the European Council where health, research and innovation have been sacrificed in the overall budget negotiations. We are following the situation and continued discussions closely as the European Parliament, on 23 July, voted on a resolution calling for improvements [...]