On the occasion of the 78th United Nations General Assembly, the European Brain Council in collaboration with the Baker Institute for Public Policy, the Brain Capital Alliance, the Brain Health Nexus and supporting partners hosted a Brain Health & Research Day on 18 September 2023 at the Harvard Club of New York City as part of the Science Summit, bringing together over 150 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]