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The BioMed Alliance has provided feedback to the public consultation on Plan S, the initiative of the European Commission, Research Funding Organisations and Science Europe to promote open access publishing.

Sharing #LifeGoals has become a popular trend on social media. A campaign from the European Federation of Neurological Associations (EFNA) is putting a new spin on the trend by instead seeing patient advocates and supporters share their #BrainLifeGoals.

On Tuesday, April 9, 2019, Active Citizenship Network (ACN) celebrated the 13th European Patients’ Rights Day (EPRD).

The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union are currently conducting their negotiations on Horizon 2020’s successor, the Horizon Europe EU research programme. The European Commission had proposed a budget of €94.1 billion while the European Parliament seeks €120 billion. The Council aims to allocate only €91 billion. The final budget will not be settled for another few months, and at the moment the negotiators are working towards an agreement on the content of the programme.

Fighting Discrimination at Work was the theme for the latest meeting of EFNA’s MEP Interest Group on Brain Mind and Pain, which took place in the European Parliament on March 6th. It was opened by Dutch MEP, Jeroen Lenaers who reminded participants that the EC President, Jean-Claude Junker, said that Europe should not just have a financial AAA rank, but also a social one.

The European Brain Council launches its Election Manifesto for the 2019 European elections and calls on Members of the European Parliament to:

The Swiss Young Sleep Wake Chronobiology Network (SYSWCN) was founded in 2016, as part of the Swiss Society for Sleep Research, Sleep Medicine, and Chronobiology (SSSSC). The SYSWCN is very interdisciplinary organised and aims to connect young researchers and clinicians within Switzerland independent of their subfield, background, or clinical speciality

BioMed Alliance provides feedback to Plan S

The EBRA project is an EU project coordinated by the European Brain Council (EBC), which launched on 1 November 2018. EBRA was designed to respond to the Horizon 2020 call, SC1-HCO-10-2018, entitled “Coordinating European brain research and developing global initiatives” and will create a catalysing initiative for brain research stakeholders (researchers, clinicians, patients, governments, funders and public institutions) to streamline and better co-ordinate brain research across Europe while fostering global initiatives.

EMA has published a booklet describing the journey of a medicine for human use authorised through EMA, from initial research to discussions on patient access to medicines across the EU. It can be found here.

Around 9.1 million people in Europe have dementia and these numbers are expected to increase to 14 million people by 2040, due to the ageing of European societies. With no disease-modifying treatment currently available and varied access to diagnosis, treatment and high quality care across Member States, EU institutions must show leadership by making dementia a priority in the fields of health, research and innovation, and social affairs.

Stress reduction of patients undergoing surgical interventions

Aiming for treatment they have spent more than 30 years describing, understanding and diagnosing the most common hereditary form of stroke, CADASIL. For this, the four French neuroscientists are now receiving the world's most valuable prize for brain research – the Lundbeck Foundation Brain Prize, worth 1 million euros.

BioMed Alliance - European medical experts unite to improve scientific scrutiny of evidence for approval of high-risk medical devices in the European Union

Sharing #LifeGoals has become a popular social media trend. This campaign will put a new spin on the #LifeGoals trend by seeing people instead sharing #BrainLifeGoals.