Participate

How can your organisation contribute?

The Brain Health Mission depends on the support and contributions of its partners. Proposals for meaningful and impactful activities can be shared with the Brain Health Mission partners. Working together, our mission is to raise awareness and bring great leaps in knowledge, through which we will implement new ideas and treatments. As a partner you can be at the forefront of this development. Your name will be associated with this ground-breaking development, a mission that will steadily grow so that the changes within a decade will be noticeable throughout all countries and populations.

What Partners Give to BHM

Co-create annual work plans and strategies
Suggest and develop new ideas and projects to support the mission
Provide expertise and insight related to their scientific field to Brain Health Mission
Disseminate and communicate the Brain Health Mission message to their networks

What BHM Gives to Partners

Visibility – your logo will be on the Brain Health Mission website and print material
Place within Brain Health Mission events. e.g. the twice yearly European Brain Health Summits
Communication Toolkit, with images and social media content
An opportunity to shape the course of brain health across the world
Brain Health Mission logo – for non-commercial use.

Forum

Each Brain Health Mission strategic partner and supporting partner can nominate and send one representative to the Forum. This Forum meets at least twice per year and shall assess progress of the mission, and act as an assembly for partners to suggest projects and activities. The representatives must be eligible to express the opinion of their organisation and report back to their organisation.

Terms of office
Strategic partners: Strategic Partners may appoint a representative to the Forum for as long as they are a Strategic partner of the Brain Health Mission. It is recommended they appoint a representative for a duration of 2 years – however a change of representative can be made before this, if necessary.

Supporting partners: for one calendar year and depending on payment of the funding.

Steering Committee

This is the executive group consisting of five representatives nominated by the EAN and 5 representatives from among the other the Strategic Partners. Of those five, one representative will be appointed by EPA to ensure representation of mental health, two representatives will be patient representatives and the remaining two will be elected from among the strategic partners.

It directs the work of the Brain Health Mission throughout the year and reports to the Forum.

The Forum is co-chaired by one of the five EAN representatives and one representative elected by the other five steering committee members.

Term of office:
2 years
Organisations represented on the Steering Committee are asked to nominate a representative who can serve the two-year term.
The Steering Committee will meet on a regular basis and at least every 2 months.

Administration

The personnel for the Brain Health Mission secretariat are provided by the European Academy of Neurology, Vienna, Austria.