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On October 22-23, 2020, EBRA and Neuron will hold an Autumn school in Berlin, Germany.

The following topics will be discussed, with special emphasis on real life examples and exercises:

– Analysis of existing evidence: systematic reviews
– Animal models in preclinical research
– How to increase quality of research
– Pre-registration of studies
– How to write a good project application

The workshop follows the EBRA Spring school on Open Research in collaboration with […]

The EBRA project was recently presented during the Scientific Theatre of the Virtual EAN Congress, held on 23-26 May 2020. Dr. Kristien Aarts, Project Manager at the European Brain Council (EBRA Coordinator), presented various aspects of the project: introducing the EBRA project as a whole, providing an overview of the landscape analysis results, insight into the Shared European Brain Research Agenda and the various activities of the (currently) 4 EBRA clusters.

The presentation video is […]

Following the January 1 cluster call deadline, EBRA is pleased to confirm the addition of two new clusters: BRAINFOOD and Trisomy21.

BRAINFOOD aims to positively impact brain health by improving nutrition of European citizens based upon fundamental insights in the bidirectional links between brain health and nutrition, with a mission to synergistically and in a coordinated and non-fragmented manner, to specifically identify knowledge gaps and priorities in ways that can impact on the societal […]

Due to the current circumstances surrounding COVID-19, the EBRA consortium has decided to extend the final cluster call deadline until 1 September 2020 to give all potential applicants ample time to prepare their submissions as clusters.

Further details on how to apply to become a cluster can be found here.

The European Union has set up a global campaign to raise €7.5 billion to develop diagnostics, treatments and vaccines and deploy them to every corner of the world at an affordable price. To promote this, the European Commission provided some resources to promote this effort of the to fight the Coronavirus, highlighting the role of research and innovation in this progress.

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On March 19-20^th  2020 the EBRA Spring school on Open Research in collaboration with the QUEST Institute Berlin was conducted as online conference. 22 participants attended the virtual meeting and discussed the presentations. From ‘Quality and Robustness in Biomedical Research’ via ‘Experimental Design (Strategies against Biases, Exploration to Confirmation)’, and ‘What is N? Experimental, observational, and measurement units’ to ‘Statistics and p-value’ the lectures detailed a tremendous amount of information and support for experimental preclinical […]

The 3rd EBRA Call for Clusters is currently underway! You have until 1 June 2020 to submit your application to become a cluster.

A cluster is understood as a research community that can be directed towards basic research, clinical research and/or methodological approaches under a common topic and disease area within brain research. The aim of forming a cluster under EBRA is to promote co-operation and exchange between brain research projects and networks, […]

Due to the Covid-19 crisis, the European Commission announced that the deadline for the Horizon 2020 health-related calls has been postponed.

SC1-2020 is postponed to 4 June 2020 and, in addition, the deadlines of H2020-SC1-DTH-2020 and H2020-SC1-FA-DTS-2020 will be also extended to 18 June 2020.

The measures introduced by many EU countries to face the pandemic have heavily affected the work of the brain research community, as well as the broader researcher community across Europe, making […]