Miscellanea

The EAN Scientific Panel on Dementia and cognitive disorders is delighted to announce its decision to endorse an evidence-based international consensus report, Time matters: a call to prioritize brain health.

Joint Symposium: Neuroimaging Committee / EAN / ECTRIMS at the upcoming EANM Virtual Congress in October

EAN signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the PNS – Peripheral Nerve Society joining forces to promote optimal cooperation in Europe between both societies.

EFNA’s Advocacy Awards will take place during Brain Awareness Week, in March 2021.

Last July the kick-off meeting of the EurDyscover Consortium took place on Zoom.
Coordinator is the University Hospital of Würzburg, Neurology department, Jens Volkmann and Chi Wang Ip.
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The European Brain Council and beLean.net are happy to announce the digital launch of the Brain Innovation Days, to be held on 13 October 2020 at 12:30-14:30.

A new draft proposal for the Innovative Health Initiative (the next European Partnership for Health Innovation and successor to the IMI) was released last month and proposes to establish an Innovation Panel.

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In a new statement published on 3 September, the BioMed Alliance calls on the German Council Presidency to guide Member States into adopting a position on the Regulation for Cooperation on Health Technology Assessment (HTA) as soon as possible.

The EAN established MoUs with the ERN dedicated to Neuromuscular diseases and Rare Neurological Diseases.

The European Medicines Agency’s annual report 2019 is now available on the Agency’s website.

The EBC releases its 2019 Annual Report

David Vodušek, Chair of the EAN European Affairs sub-Committee interviews Wolfgang H. Oertel, member of the European Commission’s Scientific Panel for Health

EAN signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the WBP – Women’s Brain Project joining forces to promote optimal cooperation in Europe between both societies.

The European Brain Research Area project – EBRA – was created as a catalyzing platform for brain research stakeholders (researchers, clinicians, patients, governments, funders and public institutions) to streamline and better coordinate brain research across Europe.