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Meeting of NAGs and NBCs

  • Belgium:
    - Brain Awareness Week: Belgium organized 15 events, see the BBC website for more information. On the occasion of BAW 2010, in cooperation with the BBC la Libre Belgique dedicated a special issue to “The Brain”. Click here to access the issue (PDF).

    - Belgian Brain Congress will be organized on September 17th -18th 2010: more information can be found here.

    - BBC web page is more and more visited with almost 10.000 hits in February 2010 compared to 3000 hits in February 2009 and 2000 in February 2008.

 

  • A meeting encouraging the creation of the Hellenic Action Group took place in Athens in late March. Click here for the meeting report.

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  • A meeting was held in Dublin in March 2010 to launch an Irish Action Group. A report from the meeting is accessible here.

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  • Representatives of six Portuguese scientific societies (Neurology, Psychiatry, Neurosciences, Neurosurgery, Neuropediatrics and Neuroradiology) met in Lisbon on 6th November 2009 to discuss the first draft of the Statutes of the Portuguese Brain Council. A second assembly was scheduled on the 29th of January 2010 to conclude the final version of the Statutes that will be submitted to undergo legal approval as is required by the Portuguese law.

    For more details, please see the following links:
    6th November 2009 meeting report
     29th January 2010 meeting report

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  • A meeting to discuss the formation of a Swedish National Action Group was held at the office of the Sveriges Läkarförbund in Stockholm in November 2009. Click here to see the report.

     

  • The meeting of Polish Action Group (PAG) was held on 20th November 2009 with the aim of discussing transformation of PAG into Polish Brain Council. Please follow the link with meeting report for more details.

 

  • On September 25th 2009, a meeting of the National Action Groups and National Brain Councils was held in Brussels.  Co-chaired by Professor Monica di Luca, Italian Brain Council, and Professor Roland Pochet, Belgian Brain Council, the meeting brought together representatives of 15 countries to discuss their experiences and agree on joint action.  The most important new development was the creation of a Network of National Action Groups and Brain Councils which elected two representatives as Observers on the Board of the EBC.  These were Roland Pochet of the Belgian Brain Council and Jure Bon of the Slovenian Brain Council.