The European Brain Council (EBC) and its partners are building momentum towards a potential European Population Neuroscience Strategy (EPNS) which would go a long way to understanding the predispositions to mental illness. The implications and possible implementation of such a strategy were debated in a workshop organised on 20 November, in Brussels, Belgium. Professors, researchers, representatives of EU institutions and [...]

On 17th November, the European Brain Council –in collaboration with its partners- organized a Roundtable meeting at the European Parliament hosted by MEP Jytte Guteland to raise awareness of alcohol related harm. 2015 marks the 3rd year the existence of Awareness Week on Alcohol-Related Harm (AWARH), which was held between 16th-20th November 2015 in Brussels. This year’s theme was: The [...]

The European Brain Council organized a workshop on "European Population Neuroscience", in cooperation with CreoDK, which took place on 20th November 2015 in Brussels. The workshop aimed to explore how Europe could support generic efforts to physical and mental health which are key to a productive and joyful life, as well as economic growth and prosperity. The discussion was systematically divided into three panels which focused [...]

The European Brain Council’s (EBC) Call to action for the creation of a European plan, as well as separate national plans to address brain health was met positively by a mixed audience of policymakers, patient advocates and industry partners present at related launch event organised on 17 November, in Brussels, Belgium. EBC also provided proof that such a venture can succeed [...]

 “Alcohol – Less is Better!” On 17th November, the European Brain Council, in collaboration with its partners, organized a Roundtable meeting at the European Parliament to raise awareness of alcohol related harm. 2015 marked the 3rd year the existence of Awareness Week on Alcohol-Related Harm (AWARH), which was held between 16 - 20 November 2015 in Brussels. This year’s theme [...]

The European Brain Council, in collaboration with the Polish Brain Council, the Polish Science Contact Agency in Brussels (PolSCA) and Foundation "NeuroPozytywni"  organized a meeting entitled “Polish Brain Plan – an example of a comprehensive national brain strategy,” which was held on 17 November 2015 Brussels. Brain disorders, including developmental, pain, psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases, represent an enormous disease burden in terms [...]

The European Brain Council (EBC), a non-profit organisation of brain-related patient associations representing 165 million people in Europe, is calling on the European institutions to produce a European strategy for brain disorders which will effectively put support for healthy brains at the top of European and national agenda. Find the full Call to Action HERE. EBC is inviting all its [...]

On 10th November, POLITICO organized its first Annual Health Summit on “Health Care: Access to Safe and Affordable Medicine”. An affordable access to treatment is among EBC’s core advocacy activities as the cost of accessing the market with new drugs is still prohibitive for certain disease areas, costing patients, companies and national health care systems alike, despite its large developments. [...]

The ‘Healthy Workplaces Manage Stress’ Summit took place on 3rd and 4th November in Bilbao, bringing the 2014-15 Healthy Workplaces Campaign on ‘Managing stress and psychosocial risks at work’ to an end. The 2015 Healthy Workplaces Summit brought together leading European experts and decision makers. They got together to exchange good practices and explore future strategies for managing stress and psychosocial [...]

On 27th October, DG SANTE of the European Commission organized a conference on Multimorbidities: 'Which priorities for a European policy on multimorbidity?’ in Brussels, Belgium. Multimorbidity, usually defined as the co-occurrence of two or more chronic conditions in one person, is a growing concern in our society and a challenge facing patients, health professionals and health systems' sustainability. This conference [...]