Presidency event - Hungary. Hungarian conference on Brain health

This action will cover the organisation of a conference of the Hungarian presidency on Brain Health.

The conference should provide platforms for knowledge exchange and networking and should draw on contributions from international organisations, research organisations, funders and policymakers including the European Commission as well as patient representatives.

The conference should aim at creating a forum for reviewing existing and potential brain health research initiatives including a possible future EU R&I partnership in the area of brain health. Brain Health is an emerging and growing concept that encompasses neural development, plasticity, functioning, and recovery including mental health aspects in a life course perspective. Numerous interconnected social and biological determinants (incl. genetics) play a role in brain development and brain health throughout the life course. Some of the aspects of brain health are strongly linked to ageing, working, lifestyle and social life situations. Dementia and other brain disorders will impose an ever-growing burden on the healthcare systems due to the ageing of Europe’s population. Developing effective and high quality health and social care for these conditions will require holistic and person-centred multisectoral and interdisciplinary research collaborations spanning the fields of health promotion and disease prevention, treatment, care and rehabilitation across the lifespan and building on the active engagement of citizens and patients, their families and carers, as appropriate.

Award criteria:

The criteria are described in General Annex D. The following exceptions apply: The thresholds for each criterion will be 4 (Excellence), 4 (Impact) and 3 (Implementation). The cumulative threshold will be 12.

Procedure:

The evaluation committee will be composed fully by representatives of EU institutions.

Legal and financial set-up of the Grant Agreements:

The funding rate will be 100%.

Subcontracting is not restricted to a limited part of the action.