Brain Awareness Week is the global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research organised by the Dana Foundation. Every March, partner organizations worldwide work together to celebrate the brain for people of all ages. Past activities have included open days at neuroscience labs, exhibitions about the brain, lectures on [...]

On 15 March 2018, EBC will once again hold an event at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on the occasion of Brain Awareness Week 2018. Based on our highly successful outreach event at the Parliament last year, which included a good showing of policymakers, researchers and the general public who openly interacted with each other and [...]

This year's Academy of National Brain Councils will take place in Lisbon, Portugal on 17-18 April.

On April 23-24 2018, EBC will hold a two day event focused on the shaping of the 9th Framework Programme, Innovative medicine and global initiatives. The event will take place in 3 separate sessions: FP9 & Missions, "The Value of Innovation" and "Brain Research: Shifting Gears and Going Global" Investments into research and innovation have [...]

The Spanish Brain Council (SBC), in cooperation with the European Brain Council (EBC), will hold the workshop “Declaración sobre buenas prácticas del uso fuera de guía de medicamentos en España” on 25th April in Madrid. Organized against the backdrop of the Good Off-Label Use Practice (GOLUP) campaign, this workshop aims to raise awareness of the [...]

On 16th May, a meeting of the Interest Group on Mental Health, Well-being and Brain Disorders addressing empowerment of patients affected by mental health conditions and their self-management of care and treatment will be held in the European Parliament from 11.00-13.00. On this occasion, a Call to Action on the topic above as developed by GAMIAN-Europe [...]

The first EBC General Assembly of the year will take place on 23-24 May. Join us for the Board Dinner on the evening of the 23rd and the General Assembly on the 24th of May. A full agenda to follow shortly.

The 4th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) takes place in Lisbon, Portugal from June 16-19, 2018. The overarching theme for the Lisbon conference will be ‘Neurogenetics’. Diagnosis and treatment are increasingly using genetic methods and one purpose of the congress is to highlight clinically useful aspects of genetic medicine in Neurology. But [...]

The European Neuro Convention is Europe’s only trade event for brain and spine experts working within the ever-developing diagnostic, surgical, brain stimulation and rehabilitation sectors. From startup organisations to large multinational companies, the convention brings together a world-class selection of suppliers - all of which will be here to exhibit their groundbreaking innovations that are helping [...]

EBC will be present again this year at the bi-annual FENS Forum, the largest Neuroscience event in Europe, which rotates between different European countries and attracts more than 7000 international delegates. This year's Forum will take place in Berlin, Germany on 7-11 July 2018. With 42 neuroscience member societies across 32 European countries, FENS as an organisation [...]