On the 17th November the EBC delegation met with Prof. Jerzy Buzek, Chair of the Industry, Research and Energy Committee of the European Parliament, to discuss our cooperation during the new EP term.

The 24th Men’s Handball World Championship is kicked off in Qatar on February 15, where 24 national teams will compete to win the precious prize as the best handball team in the world. Being a sport with much physical contact, the prevention and treatment of high speed injuries such as a sprained or twisted ankle [...]

On January 14 2015, Members of EBC convened in Brussels to discuss the strategic orientation of the organisation for the future. This meeting was the second of its kind and focused on four main topics : Clinical Trials Communication Cost of non-treatment  Projects In each group, participants discussed and redefined the specific areas or objectives that [...]

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is Europe’s biggest public-private partnership, jointly undertaken by the European Union and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA). The goal of the IMI public-private partnership is to facilitate collaboration between key players in healthcare research including, but not limited to, patient organizations, universities and pharmaceuticals, and thereby [...]

Public perception of brain research is a field that had hardly been investigated. Whilst EBC’s network is made up of members and people who are all highly engaged in brain related issues and who all find brain research salient, a recent article by O’Connor and Joffe argues that brain research receive very little interest or [...]