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During this time of uncertainty regarding COVID-19, the 30th Alzheimer Europe Conference #30AEC is still planned to take place in Bucharest from 20-22 October 2020. Our call for abstracts is open, as are registrations, with Early Bird fees available until… Continue Reading

As part of the EU’s Civil Protection Mechanism, on 19 March, the European Commission decided to create a Strategic RescEU Stockpile of medical equipment such as ventilators and protective masks to help EU countries in the context of the COVID-19… Continue Reading

RETHINKING MS in Europe, offering tangible policy changes to improve the lives of people living with MS across Europe, went live during Brain Awareness Week On the occasion of the Brain Awareness Week (16-22 March 2020), the European Brain Council… Continue Reading

WHO Europe launches an on-line consultation on the update of the WHO Comprehensive (Global) Mental Health Action Plan – GMHAP As determined by the World Health Assembly last year, WHO’s Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020 has been extended to… Continue Reading

In a marathon debate of the European Council on 20-21 February, where the heads of state and government European Member States meet, representatives failed to agree on the EU budget for 2021-2027. This budget includes Horizon Europe, the next funding programme for research and innovation. Long term budget negotiations are known to be difficult, but this time around the departure of the UK, a major budget contributor, intensified the discussions. It is likely that more European summits will be needed to come to conclusion on this topic.

The BioMed Alliance started 2020 well, with a new President, President-Elect and a new Board Member. We look forward to working with them on the many interesting activities that we are planning this year.

The global momentum to deliver a more coordinated response to the threat posed by neurological disorders is increasing.

On 18 February, at a European Parliament lunch debate hosted by Christophe Hansen MEP (Luxembourg), Alzheimer Europe launched a new report presenting the findings of its collaborative analysis of recent prevalence studies and setting out updated prevalence rates for dementia in Europe.

In November 2019, CoCoCare consortium came together for the transnational meeting to discuss the progress of the first pilot of the course and start preparing for the second pilot. Colleagues from the European Academy of Neurology also joined the consortium to share their perspective. It was a busy but also a very productive day!

This year SIP celebrated ten years since establishment and on November 7th symposium “Bringing Pain Policy to the Next Decade” was organised in Brussels. More than 200 delegates from 24  countries participate on-site and many more followed symposium online.

“Health data standardisation workshop: looking at the implementation of the 11th International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)” The Societal Impact of Pain (SIP) has organized a workshop "Health data standardisation workshop: looking at the implementation of ICD-11 and ICF" on November 6th 2019. More than 60 scientific experts, decisions makers and patients' representatives gathered at the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Union in Brussels.

This year the eight edition of the conference entitled "Recent Advances in Clinical and Experimental Research on Dementia and Neurodegenerative Disorders" was held as usually in Bressanone, Italy. The event, which took place from 22 to 24 January, represents an interesting unique in the Italian panorama, starting from the choice to use English as the official language up to the calibre of the speakers.

PRIME project kicks off – New mental health project aims to uncover insulin-related mechanisms linking disorders of body and brain

Research and innovation is again high on the European Commission’s agenda in 2020.