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consequences of these pathologies           president of the EBC, Dr. Mónica di Luca,
                whose prevalence increases in parallel      participated.
                with the aging of the population. The
                NEURO2020 event was promoted by             Meetings of the European Brain Council.
                the Reina Sofía Foundation and the          The Council is renewed as an observer
                Neurological Diseases Research Cen-         member of the EBC at the virtual meeting
                ter Foundation (CIEN Foundation) and        held in June 2020. The Council attends all
                was supported by the Carlos III Health      the virtual meetings scheduled by the EBC
                Institute and several ministries. This      and the National Councils:
                event was postponed due to the pan-         General Assembly of the EBC (December
                demic to 2022.                              9, 2020) held by teleconference where

                                                            we presented our list of activities and the
             •  Parkinson's Congress. The Spanish
                Parkinson's Federation organized the        Care4Autism project. The Share4Brain
                Parkinson's Congress "Reality of the        project was also presented.
                disease and future challenges", which       EBC’s NBC Advocacy Meeting (December
                was scheduled to be held in October         19, 2020), held via teleconference, with the
                in Granada. This event was also cance-      presence of its Chair. The National Councils
                lled due to the health situation.           requested that the EBC request a meeting

                                                            with the European Commissioners and
             •  World Brain Day. The Council partici-
                pates in the re-broadcast of the activi-    that the EBC was more involved with the
                ties of 22 July 2020, this year dedicated   National Councils. A list of the European
                to raising awareness of Parkinson's         parliamentarians to be contacted was also
                disease.                                    provided.

            The Council was going to participate in
            other events with associations and media        4. Endorsement
            that had to be canceled due to the pande-
            mic.                                            The Board supports the candidacy of Lars
                                                            Edvinsson (Lundt University) for the BBVA
                                                            Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology

            3. Attendance at meetings:                      and Biomedicine, for his work in migraine
                                                            and headaches. This endorsement is sig-
            Share4Brain Project meetings. The project       ned by all the relevant European societies
            kick-off meeting was held in March 2020         in this field, including the SEN.
            virtually. Several virtual meetings of the
            project have been held throughout the
            year. At the September meeting, a semi-         5. Outreach activities
            nar on depression was held in which the
                                                            Website and social networks (Twitter).






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