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7.1 Outreach activities NEURO2020: "Neurodegenerative
The 2020 exercise has presented us with
an unprecedented challenge that, of
course, has also had a full impact on the
outreach activities of the CIEN Founda-
tion, being one of its founding objectives
to bring to society in the most accessible
way the advances obtained in the research
of neurodegenerative diseases.
The COVID-19 pandemic has supposed a
global disruption. However, the confine-
ment has not meant the paralysis of the
outreach activities of the CIEN Founda-
tion during the year 2020, although it has
meant some limitations and adaptations
due to the new circumstances. Since mid-
March 2020, several events organized by
the CIEN Foundation had to be postpo-
ned, the most significant being the Global
Summit NEURO2020, scheduled for Sep-
tember 2020 and which has finally been
postponed to 2022. Some of our more
beloved events, such as the Volunteer’s
Day or the Tree of Memory of the CIEN
Foundation, had to be canceled (hoping to
be able to resume them in future editions)
and other events have been maintained
with an adapted format, such as the Me-
morable Shorts Film Festival, which in its
second edition was moved to the virtual
plane. It should be noted that our ou-
treach work has been maintained through
publications on our website www.funda-
cioncien.es, our quarterly newsletter (CIEN
Foundation Newsletter) and our social
networks. Below, we highlight some of the
most important dissemination activities
carried out in 2020:
Cien Foundation annual report 2020
Diseases 2020. International Year
of Research and Innovation"
This year the meetings of the Governing
Commission of the event of exceptional
public interest "Neurodegenerative Disea-
ses 2020. International Year of Research
and Innovation" have continued. The
event was consolidated in March 2019,
in order to comply with the provisions of
the ninety-seventh additional provision of
Law 6/2018, of July 3, on the General State
Budget for the year 2018 with the heading:
Tax benefits applicable to "Neurodegene-
rative Diseases 2020. International year of
Research and Innovation".
The EN 2020 event, promoted by the Reina
Sofía Foundation and the Neurological Di-
seases Research Center Foundation (CIEN
Foundation) and promoted by the Minis-
tries of Finance; Health, Consumption and
Social Welfare; Science and Innovation,
and the Carlos III Health Institute, is aimed
at: (a) raising awareness among citizens of
the importance of promoting research on
neurodegenerative diseases to advance
the knowledge of the origin of their cau-
ses, the only way to reduce the number
of affected population and to stop the
advance of these diseases; (b) promoting
the acquisition of economic resources that
will be used for the scientific and social
purposes of both foundations and as a pla-
tform for the generation of ideas and the
exchange of experiences between experts
and scientists in the field of neuroscience
from around the world.
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