EBC is a network of key players in the “Brain Area”, with a membership encompassing scientific societies, patient organisations, professional societies and industry partners.
31 07-2023

EBC joins EU-level mental health organisations call on EPSCO Council for concrete action on mental health

2024-02-02T10:51:15+00:0031-07-2023|News|

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 [...]

31 07-2023

Strategic framework for improvement of mental health in the Republic of Croatia until 2030

2023-08-02T07:57:18+00:0031-07-2023|News|

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 07-2023

European Brain Council Statement on the European Commission’s response to the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) ‘Save Cruelty-free Cosmetics – Commit to a Europe without Animal Testing’

2024-02-02T11:05:39+00:0025-07-2023|News|

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 [...]

25 07-2023

9th National Brain Councils Academy – Event Report

2023-07-26T11:30:53+00:0025-07-2023|News|

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 [...]

25 07-2023

Registration now open for the Rethinking Alzheimer’s disease virtual event

2023-09-06T14:45:31+00:0025-07-2023|News|

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 [...]

17 07-2023

Unleashing the IDPP@CLEF Potential: Assessing Predictive Algorithms and Enabling Data Sharing for Enhanced Research

2023-07-17T12:39:33+00:0017-07-2023|News|

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 [...]

14 07-2023

EBC attends 9th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology

2023-07-14T13:40:04+00:0014-07-2023|News|

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 [...]

3 07-2023

EBC presents at the SANT Committee Public Hearing on the ”Mental Health of Youth”

2023-07-11T08:24:22+00:0003-07-2023|News|

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 [...]

13 06-2023

Save the date launches for Rethinking Alzheimer’s disease virtual event

2023-09-06T14:44:03+00:0013-06-2023|News|

Save the date for the virtual event Rethinking Alzheimer’s disease: Moving towards a new Alzheimer’s disease detection and diagnosis pathway in Sweden, set to take place on 26 September 2023 at 10:00 – 12:00 (Brussels time)! About Alzheimer’s disease Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that progresses in stages, beginning with a long silent phase [...]

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