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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.

Alzheimer Europe holds lunch debate examining diagnosis of dementia.

The BioMed Alliance and FEAM joined forces to co-organise a workshop exploring opportunities and challenges for maximising the impact of health research in the coming years.

Meeting of WHO with EFNA, EAN and EBC to discuss brain health Report Objectives: Platform for all participants to present their ongoing work and discuss potential collaboration in the area of brain health Participants: European Academy of Neurology (EAN): Raad… Continue Reading

ERN-RND provides educational webinars on rare neurological and neuromuscular diseases – in collaboration with the European Reference Network for Rare Neuromuscular Diseases (EURO-NMD) and the European Academy of Neurology.

The European Pain Forum officially kicks off with 10 health organisations joining forces Pain is a core component of the patient’s experience within healthcare systems. The work of several European medical, scientific and patient organisations touches upon pain. Pain is… Continue Reading

The first public event of the EBRA-project was held on 5 December 2019 in Brussels, Belgium.

Global Health – EFNA activities update At EFNA we remain engaged with global health initiatives and actors (you can read about initial reasons for this here: Health is a shared global value). The last couple of months have been rather… Continue Reading