The preparation of the Shared European Brain Research Agenda (SEBRA) is currently underway within the EBC-coordinated European Brain Research Area (EBRA) project, with the aim to provide recommendations on future areas for excellent, innovative, and translational research. Existing strategic research agendas have been taken into consideration and input has been collected from a first set of identified experts in the European brain research area. A Consultation is now [...]

Twenty years ago to this day, the European Brain Council (EBC) was formed. The brain child of Prof.  Jes Olesen, EBC was the answer to the need for increased unity within the brain community, building a more connected network of key players in the brain space — scientists, clinicians, patients, industry — encompassing basic [...]

Brain Awareness Week 2022 was a busy time period for EBC this year, with a series of virtual launches taking place, namely the release of the 2nd Round of the Value of Treatment project results and Calls to Action as well as the Save the Date for two major events later this year. On Monday, [...]

The EBC-coordinated European Brain Research Area (EBRA) project is in its final months and today launches a Save the Date for its Final Conference, to be held in conjunction with the Brain Innovation Days, which will be back this year with its annual in-person event. The events will take place in Brussels, Belgium on 11 [...]

On the occasion of Brain Awareness Week 2022, the EBC-led Value of Treatment project – currently in its second round – releases results and calls to action this week. The Value of Treatment for Brain Disorders (VOT) is a health economics and outcomes research project launched in 2015, with the objective to identify treatment [...]

9 February 2022 The EU-funded European Brain Research Area project today releases its long-awaited European Research Inventory and Mapping Report, providing insight into the brain research activities funded at the European level within the EU framework programmes FP7 and Horizon 2020, as well as the funding initiatives of the EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative [...]

On 30 November, the GOLUP consortium held a virtual event, led by the European Brain Council, to build on the latest discussions on the Declaration on Good Off-Label Use Practices.  The event was hosted by MEP Cyrus Engerer (S&D, Malta), who is a member of the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI). [...]

EBC is happy to support the statement released by CPME, on behalf of the European Health Stakeholder Group, to call for a formal association of the UK to the Horizon Europe research programme. The European Health Stakeholder Group aims to raise awareness of the implications that Brexit could have for patients and the public [...]