Our Priorities

EAN Priorities 2024 – 2028

Administration

What:

  • Be a role model for association management
  • Support EAN Board and officers/committees in achieving EAN’s goals
  • Evolve and initiate projects, while maintaining current initiatives
  • Ensure high quality of EAN services
  • Provide stability and sustainability of the EAN office
  • Maintain healthy work environment.

How:

  • Following core values of transparency, collaboration, professionalism and respect
  • Collaborating with other medical associations, involvement as experts in the field
  • Guaranteeing high quality service (to the officers, members, vendors, partner societies, industry partners)
  • Communicating and cooperating effectively and continuously with the Board and officers
  • Projecting management & development process, goal-oriented handling
  • Improving processes, regular analysis and feedback culture
  • Cultivating own staff for in-house services, financial stability, clear information and structure
  • Ensuring Quality Management, Policy manual, internal instructions and manuals, Buddy system for new staff members
  • Promoting health and safety at work, occupational physician, family friendly environment.

Advocacy

What:

  • Raise awareness of neurological diseases (including gender differences)
  • Advance Public Awareness on neurology and on related EAN priorities
  • Increase knowledge about health and care disparities
  • Improve standards of care
  • Optimize patient outcomes
  • Advocate for neurological patients and for neurologists
  • Strengthen Global and International Brain Health with Brain Health Mission 
  • Promote culture between EAN members so as to advance Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • Support National Neurological Societies 
  • Endorse Interaction and Collaboration between EAN and other stakeholders
  • Encourage Research and Evidence-Based Advocacy in collaboration with other stakeholders
  • Education for Advocacy
  • Enhance EAN’s Policy & Advocacy Resources
  • Expand Global and European Partnerships

How:

  • Providing analysis reports on the burden of neurological diseases and the value of treatments in Europe
  • Investigating the availability of neurological care and workforce
  • Building a strong alliance with partner societies, patients, and other stakeholders in neurological care
  • Engaging economic stakeholders (e.g., World Bank, OECD, EIB) to highlight economic benefits of brain health investments.
  • Collaborating with brain/neuro advocacy organizations (e.g., Davos Alzheimer’s, OneNeurology, Brain Capital Alliance)
  • Improving work and quality of life for neurology work forces
  • Lobbying for research resources at EU level
  • Investing in political intelligence services (e.g., Politico Pro, Dod’s Political Intelligence) to anticipate policy developments and guide strategic action

Brain Health Mission

What:

  • Strengthen Global Brain Health Advocacy Efforts
  • Expand Global and European Partnerships of Brain Health Mission
  • Support WHO-iGAP through defined action points, such as assisting NNS in developing or implementing national brain health plans.
  • Provide educational opportunities for neurologists, public education programmes, and advocacy training, including tools to educate the public.
  • Lead global awareness efforts, train brain health advocates, and promote education to support lasting policy impact and break the stigma around neurological conditions.
  • Advocate for more research funding and advocate for evidence-based research that underscores the importance of a holistic approach to brain, identifying determinants of brain health and developing preventive measures.

How:

  • Collaborating with brain/neuro advocacy organisations (e.g., Davos Alzheimer’s, OneNeurology, Brain Capital Alliance)
  • Engaging economic stakeholders (e.g., World Bank, OECD, EIB) to highlight economic benefits of brain health investments.
  • Embedding brain health in economic, workforce, social, welfare, and climate policies
  • Focusing on productivity gains and reduced healthcare costs.
  • Organising informative events during medical congresses and events
  • Planning activities for the public – School Challenge, public day and provide blueprints for national societies to copy
  • Using the Brain Health Mission www.brainhealthmission.org and its partners as an accelerator for all advocacy and brain health activities we do.

Additional resources:
Brain Health Strategy - ean.org
EAN Brain Health Roadmap paper - A roadmap toward promoting and improving brain health in Europe and closing the awareness and funding gap

Communication

What:

  • Provide a common Communication guidance Across the EAN
  • Enhance Digital Platforms and Outreach
  • Support Research Dissemination  
  • Increase Relations with National Neurology Societies and all Stakeholders including patients organizations and pharma companies
  • Strengthen Media Relations
  • Position EAN at key events.

How:

  • Providing set of common slides with 5–8 key messages that all EAN members should share on relevant occasions.
  • Focusing on translating and promoting research findings into policy-relevant formats to support advocacy efforts and public understanding. 
  • Boosting average annual participation from 20 countries (2024) to 22 by end of 2025 and 24 by end of 2026
  • Offering Communication assets to National Societies – i.e., factsheets on country situations based on EAN Survey
  • Building relationships with key journalists to boost advocacy and education coverage
  • Delivering media training for EAN Board members to prepare them as spokespeople.

Congress

What:

  • Increase the quality of all congress sessions
  • Attract sub-specialists and general neurologists
  • Interest a diverse audience (gender, geography, all ages).

How:

  • Cooperating with panels and other societies
  • Constant evaluation & Innovations of Congress Sessions (scientific, education and poster).
  • The role of the Overarching Theme
  • The future role of local societies in the congress
  • Observe the environmental impact of congresse

Education

What:

  • Guarantee optimal skills and competencies at all levels
  • Achieve a balance between general neurologists and sub-specialty neurologists
  • Ensure harmonisation and democratisation of EAN educational offerings
  • Foster interdisciplinarity among neurology subspecialties
  • Structure educational content and benefits/offerings clear and attractive to apply to
  • Increase interest by future neurologists (student members’ programmes)
  • Highlight life-long-learning opportunities, keep mid-career group attached to EAN.

How:

  • Creating a pre-graduate curriculum for medical students
  • Updating and considering the European Training Requirement for Neurology (ETRN) in all educational offerings 
  • Facilitating continuous professional development
  • Fostering teaching careers in neurology (educational / mid-career programmes)
  • Offering learning paths dedicated to target groups
  • Creating a comprehensive strategy to raise awareness of educational benefits
  • Providing open access to eanCampus for associate members

Membership

What:

  • Attract new members
  • Cooperate with National Neurological Societies
  • Raise awareness of membership benefits
  • Create an inter professional community working towards the vision and mission of EAN.

How:

  • Focusing on countries with less individual members
  • Engaging with Student members and attract them to EAN by offering new opportunities
  • Promoting a sustainable membership career model
  • Integrating RRFS across EAN activities and prioritise those activities
  • Addressing the problems of modern neurologists (brain health, mental health)
  • Keeping mid-career neurologist/general neurologist/private practitioners engaged with EAN
  • Promoting inter-professional cooperation.
  • Developing tailored policy and advocacy analyses to support the EAN President and Board in advancing EAN’s mission
  • Focusing on productivity gains and reduced healthcare costs

Scientific

What:

  • Generation, exchange and dissemination of high-quality knowledge
  • Prioritization of scientific topics and research areas essential for advancing the EAN’s mission and supporting advocacy
  • Collaboration with basic neuroscientists, among clinical neuro-disciplines and with regulators (e.g. EMA).

How:

  • Enhancing processes to ensure the impact and effective implementation of evidence-based guidelines
  • Establishing certification program to promote clinically oriented research and provide training opportunities
  • Supporting the dissemination of current trends and advancements in neurology through Panels, the European Journal of Neurology, and eanNews
  • Contributing to data sharing efforts and harmonization within Europe
  • Improving the visibility of research outcomes at the annual congress and through the EAN Panel Yearbook