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Healthcare professionals’ working party elects co-chair The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Healthcare Professionals’ Working Party (HCPWP) has re-elected Prof. Gonzalo Calvo as its co-chair at the September 2016 meeting. Prof. M. de Visser, EAN Treasurer, is the EAN delegate to… Continue Reading

The 20th congress of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (IPDMS) was recently held at the City Cube in Berlin, Germany. The 5-day congress started on Sunday the 19th of June 2016 with excellent therapeutic plenary sessions updating the… Continue Reading

    by Anna Sauerbier         Call for European History of Neuroscience Online Projects http://www.fens.org/News-Activities/News/20161/07/Call-for-European-History-of-Neuroscience-Online-Projects/ EpilepsyDiagnosis.org http://www.ilae.org/Commission/Class/diagnostic.cfm Roadmap for Classification of the Epilepsies http://www.ilae.org/Visitors/Centre/Class-Roadmap.cfm Exercise ability in middle age may be one key to longer life http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-fitness-men-mortality-idUSKCN1062SC… Continue Reading

A calendar of planned open public consultations has been published on ’Your voice in Europe’. The direct link to the calendar is: http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/consultations/docs/planned-consultations-2016_en.pdf.     European Commission – Calendar of public consultations – 2016 was last modified: August 25th, 2016… Continue Reading

The European Commission further strengthened its top managers by appointing four Deputy Directors-General as of 1 September 2016. More can be found in the Press Release. Dr Ruxandra Draglia Akli, currently Director Health in DG Research and Innovation, has been… Continue Reading

Worth €8.5 billion, the 2017 tranche of the EU’s Horizon 2020 flagship science funding program has a jobs focus in 2017,  especially improving migrant integration into labor markets. More here: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-16-2604_en.htm 2017 Research work program released was last modified: December… Continue Reading

      By Anna Sauerbier     A successful MS fundraising story http://www.emsp.org/news-messages/2878/ What does quality care mean? http://www.eu-patient.eu/Members/Weekly-Mailing/quality-care-survey/ Countries start to act on non-communicable diseases but need to speed up efforts to meet global commitments http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2016/noncommunicable-diseases-global-commitments/en/ Presenting a… Continue Reading

The Swiss Association of Young Neurologists (SAYN) was founded on the 31st of October 2014 in Interlaken during the annual meeting of the Swiss Neurological Society (SNS) by a group of young and enthusiastic Neurology trainees. It was supported by and organised from the beginning on as part of the SNS. Since inception the SAYN is structured as an executive committee and core group.

MEPs to Welcome Scientists STOA will host, on 8 November 2016, the second ‘Science meets Parliaments’ event, in cooperation with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC). This annual event aims at promoting evidence-based policy-making and enables open and direct… Continue Reading

The International Neuropsychiatric Pula Congress is the scientific conference with the longest tradition in our part of the world. This year it was organized under the auspices of the Croatian President, Mrs. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, the co-organization of the Department of… Continue Reading

  As many of your will know, EAN works closely with our colleagues at the European Federation of Neurological Association [EFNA] – who so actively work to promote the patient perspective in all healthcare policy and provision in Europe. EFNA… Continue Reading

The INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SPECIALITIES (IENSA) announce the call for the Dr. Pedro Albert Grant 2016, intended for all medicine and psychology graduates who wish to present a clinical research project in any area of neuroscience. More information on www.iensa.es.… Continue Reading

The European Brain Council (EBC) is carrying out a new Study for 2015-2017 on the “Value of Treatment:  Bridging the Early Diagnosis and Treatment Gap for Brain Disorders”.

The Commission has just published a roadmap concerning policy areas of interest to EAN. The roadmaps concern the following policy areas: Food Safety Public Health To consult all the existing roadmaps please refer to the following website:
http://ec.europa.eu/smart-regulation/roadmaps/index_en.htm For further… Continue Reading