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Organizations
and individuals can further support our plans to have the Year
of the Brain in Europe in 2014 by visiting a ‘pledge
your support’ page: www.pledge.yearofthebrain.org/index.php. The
more pledges we can obtain from individuals and
organisations the more we strengthen our attempts
to fundraise and generate political and public
support for the year.
- On May 2012 EBC registered in the Transparency register operated by
the European Parliament and the European Commission. The register
provides policy makers and citizens with a direct and single access to
information about who is engaged in activities aiming at influencing
the EU decision making process, which interests are being pursued and
what level of resources are invested in these
activities.
For more information about the register please go to:
www.europa.eu/transparency-register/about-register/transparency-register/index_en.htm
For details on the EBC visit:
www.ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/consultation/displaylobbyist.do?id=31091478710-90&isListLobbyistView=true - On April 2012 EBC applied for a participatory status with the Council
of Europe.
It is granted to INGOs which are particularly representative
in the field(s) of their competence at European level,
and which through their work are capable of supporting the achievement
of closer unity by contributing to its activities and by publicising its
work among European citizens. At present some 400 INGOs hold the status.
We expect to be granted the participatory status later this year.
Read more on:www.coe.int/t/ngo/particip_status_intro_en.asp - Dr Mary Baker, President of the European Brain Council, introduces the Year of the Brain in Europe and iDoc, a new video information service for patients. Click here to see video
- International Innovation interview with EBC Executive Director Dr. Alastair Benbow: An unprecedented campaign to promote brain power. Click here to download
- EBC has decided to formally withdraw from the process of having
the European Commission propose a European
Year of the Brain in 2014.
Nonetheless, we still want to deliver a Year of the Brain in Europe in 2014, but we are no longer seeking to make this an institutionally led programme.
Click here for further information and to see a letter to the EC President Barroso communicating this decision. - Message from EU Research, Innovation and Science Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn on EBC – 10 years of meeting the needs of Science and Society ... click here to view
- New EBC Pictures Corner
- Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation awards The Brain Prize 2012 to Christine Petit and Karen Steel. More can be found at: www.thebrainprize.org
- Personalised Medicine: Better
Healthcare for the Future - A
Rational Approach Focussing on Bioinformatics, Medicinal
Chemistry and Medicine Cyprus – 17 to
22 June 2012.
www.cost.eu/events/pemed - Join the EBC call to make 2014 the European Year of the Brain... find out more
- European Brain Council together with 191 undersigned organizations call the EC President Barroso in an open letter to formally endorse 2014 as the European Year of the Brain
- External Environment Report – 14 May 2012 ... click here to download
- During the conference "European Day of the Brain. Ageing, Stroke and Alzheimer’s Disease - Finding Innovative Solutions" organized in the framework of the Polish EU Presidency in cooperation with EBC on the 18th November in Warsaw, Polish Presidency together with conference participants called the EU in the post conference declaration to make 2014 the European Year of the Brain. Read more here.
- On the 3rd October a meeting of Network of National Action Groups and National Brain Councils took place in Brussels ... read more
- The size and burden of mental disorders in Europe - a major landmark study was released on the 5 September 2011 by ECNP ... read more
- A
roadmap: Think 2014! A European Year for promoting healthy minds,
learning and well-being
"Think2014!" published late fall by DG RTD aims at providing the conditions to create a dialogue on brain health and well-being, to stimulate education and innovation, to enhance productivity, and to foster innovators, while lifting taboos surrounding brain-related disorders or conditions. - During the annual conference of Universities UK, EBC's President Dr. Mary Baker talked about "The public finances, the HE sector and social mobility". See video recording here.
- The results of the updated EBC study Cost of Disorders of the Brain in Europe were launched at the European Parliament on October 4th. The study, published in October 2011 in "European Neuropsychopharmacology" can be viewed here
- Revised Consensus Document on European Brain Research now available in the European Journal of Neuroscience. More can be found here
- Ageing, Stroke, and Alzheimer's Disease - Finding Innovative Solutions: The Polish Government prioritizes brain diseases during the Polish Presidency in the second half of 2011. A jointly organized conference will take place on the 18th November 2011 in Warsaw in cooperation with also with DG SANCO. The conference's programme can be viewed on this website