‘Together Under the Umbrella’ is an innovative European campaign to be launched during Brain Awareness Week. Aiming to educate society on the range of brain disorders and the number of people affected and to raise awareness of the impact and prevalence of these conditions. The colourful website is a hub featuring information, resources and ideas of ways to get involved. [...]

In December 2015, the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) launched a Call for Proposals followed by a number of webinars on each topic of the upcoming IMI 2 7th and 8th Calls for proposals, as well as one webinar deemed to provide a better understanding of IMI's rules and procedures. Those webinars were launched on the 11th of January 2016 with the last [...]

The Final Conference of the Joint Action on Mental Health and Wellbeing was held on the 21-22nd January 2016 at the Flemish Parliament building in the centre of Brussels. Mary Baker, President of EBC 2010-2013, chaired a panel on 'Future challenges in Mental Health: the perspective of international and professional organisations.' Since the Joint Action started in February 2013, national [...]

‘Better research for better health’: A holistic approach to challenges & opportunities At the end of its first year, the Scientific Panel for Health presented its initial findings at a public conference which was held on 21 January 2016. One of EBC's main objectives is to promote research on brain disorders in order to better understand  the healthy and diseased brain. The [...]

ROAMER, an EU funded project endorsed by EBC, published a new video calling for help to increase research in mental health. WATCH THE VIDEO HERE. ROAMER is a three-year project funded by the European Commission, under the Seventh Framework Programme, to create a coordinated road map for the promotion and integration of mental health and well-being research across Europe, based [...]

On 19th and 20th January, United4Health and the European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL) co-organized a ‘Joint Digital Healthcare Symposium’ with a subtitle: ‘Our Digital Health: … is everyone ready?’. The event took place at the Stanhope Hotel in Brussels, Belgium. "Our Digital Health: ... is everyone ready?" The Joint Digital Healthcare Symposium convened the Thought Leading European eHealth community to [...]

The Co-chairs of the European Parliament Interest Group on Carers and the Interest Group on Mental Health, Well-being and Brain Disorders, the Board of Eurocarers and the Board of GAMIAN-Europe organized a joint meeting, which took place on 12th January at the European Parliament in Brussels. EBC was represented at the meeting by a Senior Public Affairs Manager Tadeusz Hawrot. The [...]

On the 8th of January 2016, the European Brain Council (EBC) brought together all the relevant stakeholders in the brain field for an Expert Workshop discussing the upcoming project, “The Value of Treatment for brain disorders”. The project, set to be officially launched on the 27th January 2016, aims to explore the effectiveness and sustainability of a coordinated health care [...]

This time of year provides us with an excellent opportunity to look back on the year elapsed as well as to plan ahead for the year to come. We have been extremely pleased within EBC to conduct landmark activities that have confirmed the organisation as the recognised and trusted partner to the institutions that it is and must be. This [...]

As the year finishes, the European Brain Council takes up the opportunity to look back and assess some of its most successful recent initiatives. High among them was the Year of the Brain (YotB) campaign. The YotB aimed to promote the importance of brain research, raise awareness of the challenges faced by those living with a brain condition, foster education [...]