In February 2017, the Education Programme Office of the Human Brain Project will organise its 1st Student Conference in Vienna, Austria under the title “Transdisciplinary Research Linking Neuroscience, Brain Medicine and Computer Science”. The event is going to take place from 8 to 10 February 2017. In the context of the 1st HBP Student Conference, young [...]

Brain Awareness Week, taking place this year on the 13-19 March,  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. As part of Brain Awareness Week, EBC, [...]

Agenda (tentative) 11:00 Welcome and introduction - Wolfgang Oertel (EBC & EAN) Opening and background introduction on translational research 11:15-11:30 Hilkka Karkkainen (President, GAMIAN-Europe) The mental health patients’ perspective, the burden of diseases, from individuals to society (EBC’s “Value of Treatment” research project) and patients’ involvement in brain research 11:30-11:45 Alexander Schubert (Executive Director, ECNP) The challenges to innovation [...]

If you wish to attend the EBC Outreach event, 16 March at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, please register your attendance below: 15  

The 19th International Neuroscience Winter Conference will take place in Sölden, Austria, from March 26th to March 30th, 2017. Conference Structure Keynote Lectures Symposia Special Interest Sessions Posters Keynote lectures by invitation only. Symposia and special interest sessions are selected from complete applications according to the guidelines. All other registered participants may submit one abstract for [...]

Brainhack? The purpose of Brainhack is to bring together brain enthusiasts with varying backgrounds and skills to build relationships, learn from one another and collaborate on projects related to neuroscience during two days of intense interaction. Participants can either bring their own project/question and recruit a team of collaborators, or come to learn methods, develop [...]

5th Quadrennial Meeting of the World Federation of Neuro-Oncology Societies (WFNOS) Dates: May 4-7, 2017 Venue: Kongresshaus Zürich, Zurich (SWITZERLAND) Contact: wfnos2017@medacad.org

The MS House is organized this year from 30 May until 1 June in the European Parliament. The event marks the opening of World MS Day on the 31st of May. Do not hesitate to register here. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disease, with progressive and unpredictable impacts on the life of those [...]

The registration for SIP 2017 has now officially opened. The symposium will be an ideal opportunity to hear from experts in the field and contribute to better pain policies. The Working Group topics to be discussed are: Pain as a quality indicator for health systems Building platforms to address the societal impact of pain Impact [...]

The 4th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) will take place on June 16 to 19, 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal. "The overarching theme for the Lisbon congress 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. [...]