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