Designing a European Brain Health Landscape

Project Information

CSA BrainHealth

Grant agreement ID: 101136302

DOI

10.3030/101136302

Project closed

EC signature date 27 October 2023

Start date 1 November 2023

End date 31 October 2025

Funded under

• Health

Total cost

€ 1 218 550,00

EU contribution

€ 1 218 550,00

Coordinated by

DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV
Germany

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - CSA BrainHealth (Designing a European Brain Health Landscape)

Reporting period: 2024-11-01 to 2025-10-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The Coordination and Support Action (CSA) BrainHealth prepared the European Partnership for BrainHealth to structure research and innovation in this area. The CSA BrainHealth started on November 1st, 2023 with a runtime of 24 months. Funded by the European Commission, it built the umbrella for 21 participants from 11 countries. The CSA BrainHealth addressed policy-makers and funders from European Member States, Associated and Third Countries, and other stakeholders, in close interaction with the research community. A wide-ranging and diverse CSA BrainHealth network was created including the Funders Forum, the Stakeholders Forum, and the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) to support the development of the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) in preparation for the European partnership for BrainHealth. The network was successfully working, and the boards contributed substantially. Among these, the Funders Forum comprising 57 funding organisations from 32 countries and the SAB, comprising 17 highly reputated scientists and clinicians from the diverse areas of neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and mental health highlight not only the very high interest in the CSA and in the European partnership for BrainHealth, but also provide evidence of the building of trust in the stepwise process of this impressive endeavour.
The European Partnership for BrainHealth will holistically approach the biomedical, economic, and societal challenges in the field of brain health in Europe and worldwide, aiming for collaborative and innovative solutions for preservation and improvement of brain health, as well as prevention, diagnosis and therapies for neurological and mental disorders.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

The reporting period was marked by the submission of the European Partnership for Brain Health grant proposal on June 3rd, 2025. This proposal was a joint effort by the CSA-BrainHealth partners and many more funders so that in total 53 partners under the coor-dination of DLR incorporated inputs and information from the SRIA, the Funders Forum, all CSA BrainHealth partners, and the European Commission.

Considerable efforts were directed towards the selection and configuration of the first two Joint Transnational Calls that should be published in January 2026. The EP BrainHealth SRIA was and will be the reference document to identify thematic priorities which require alignment of members’ roadmaps and research programmes and broad inclusion of stakeholders. Tackling these priorities will meaningfully advance global brain research and contribute to optimise brain health.

Therefore, the results of the second reporting period, the EP BrainHealth grant proposal, the EP communication concept, and the Call pre-announcement constitute the highlights among all achieved goals and aims, reflected in the submitted deliverables. The network was successfully working, and the boards contributed substantially. Among these, the Funders Forum comprising 57 funding organisations from 32 countries and the Scientifc Advisory Board, comprising 17 highly reputated scientists and clinicians from the diverse areas of neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and mental health highlight not only the very high interest in the CSA and in the future EP, but also provide evidence of the building of trust in the stepwise process of this impressive endeavour.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

Within WP2, and together with workpackage 3 the 2026 joint calls for proposals were developed with a common umbrella topic to start bridging gaps and unifying the communities from the predecessor initiatives. The topic for both calls is Biological, social and environmental factors that impact the trajectory of brain health across the lifespan. The first call is in the in the field of neurological, mental and sensory disorders and the 2nd in the field of neurodegenerative disorders. All necessary call documents were consented in an online Call Steering Committee Meeting beginning of September. The important thing to note here is that we have gen-erated common procedures and templates for both calls to maximise the alignment be-tween them (call document zip file attached as Annex). More than 40 funders committed to participate in those calls with a total budget of around 60 Mio Euro. This is more than the calls of the predecessor initiatives raised together.
After the summer the call documents were finally consented in a first Call Steering com-mittee meeting on September 2nd, see minutes as annex attached.

A first preannouncement was then published on the CSA website. With this the 2nd and last deliverable of workpackage 2 could be submitted in time.

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