On 4 August 2023, the European Brain Council received confirmation from the European Commission that the joint proposal for the EU-funded Coordination and Support Action (CSA) “Towards structuring brain health research in Europe”, replying to the Horizon Europe call HORIZON-HLTH-2023-DISEASE-03-06, was evaluated positively. 17 organisations led by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum Fur [...]
On July 28, on the occasion of the informal EPSCO Council, EBC joined 5 organisations active in the area of mental health representing mental health professionals, patients, carers and brain researchers, to call on the Spanish Presidency to consider proposing concrete EU-level action on mental health. This call is issued against the background of [...]
The Croatian Government adopted the Strategic Framework for Mental Health until 2030. The document recognizes mental health as a public health priority and stresses the need to undertake comprehensive and specific measures of health promotion, prevention and protection of mental health and treatment of mental disorders. It describes an increased prevalence of mental disorders [...]
25 July 2023 The European Brain Council (EBC) acknowledges and welcomes the European Commission’s (EC) Communication on the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) ‘Save cruelty-free cosmetics – Commit to a Europe without animal testing. As a network of key players in the ‘Brain Area’ representing 179 million Europeans living with brain conditions, mental and neurological [...]
The 9th Academy of National Brain Councils (NBCs) took place on 23-24 May 2023 in Brussels, Belgium. The annual meeting brought together NBCs representatives alongside prominent speakers and guests, in-person and remotely, from 15 countries: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Serbia, Sweden and Turkey. This year’s meeting [...]
Registration is now open for the virtual event Rethinking Alzheimer’s disease: Moving towards a new Alzheimer’s disease detection and diagnosis pathway in Sweden, taking place virtually on 26 September 2023 at 09:00 – 11:00. The European Brain Council (EBC), in collaboration with the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), the Swedish Brain Foundation (SBF) and the Swedish Association [...]
Each year, the BRAINTEASER project organizes an open evaluation challenge, called iDPP@CLEF (Intelligent Disease Progression Prediction), to involve research groups from academia and industry in the assessment of the performance of their AI algorithms to predict the progression of ALS and MS. These challenges are open to anyone wishing to participate and they are [...]
EBC was pleased to once again take part in the 9th Annual Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), which took place on 1-4 July 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. The overarching theme of the congress this year was “Neurology beyond the Big Data”. The annual congress provides an unrivaled chance for the neurology [...]
The EBC Newsletter for June 2023 can be downloaded here.
On the 29th of June the European Parliament's Sub-Committee dedicated to public health (SANT) held a hearing on ‘Mental health of youth’. Vinciane Quoidbach, EBC Public Health& Policy, Research Project Manager presented during the public hearing with the presence of many Members of the European Parliament highlighting the importance of investing in brain research and innovation. During [...]
