Project ABI
Development of a common training programme for ABI caregivers
Project duration: 25 months
From: 01.10.2009 To: 31.10.2011
Aims and key objectives:
• To respond to the growing need for training and education of acquired brain injury (ABI) care providers/givers by developping a common training programme;
• To increase the quality of services for persons with ABI;
• To improve the appeal of working in services for long-term care and support for persons with ABI;
• To enhance and promote equal standards in ABI service providers/givers training;
• To ensure comparability and mutual recognition of the training programme in partner countries;
• To disseminate the training programme to end-users at a large European scale.
Ninth World Congress on Brain Injury
Date: 21-25 March 2012
Location: Edinburgh International Conference Centre
The IBIA International Planning Committee and Local Planning Committee would like to invite you to attend the Ninth World Congress on Brain Injury.
For more information visit: http://www.internationalbrain.org/?q=node/159.
"Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a new name for the vegetative state or apallic syndrome".pdf
European Year of the Brain 2014
The European Brain Council has embarked on a major strategy, alongside its’ other activities to try and make 2014 The European Year of the Brain.
A European Year of the Brain has the potential to do the following:
• Increase the profile of all brain diseases in every member state
• Draw attention to the costs and impact of brain diseases now and into the future
• Increase funding for brain research through the framework programmes and in the member states
• Increase efforts to educate, inform and advise all those living with brain diseases in order to improve their quality of life
• Recognise the increasingly important role of those who care for a person living with a brain disorder
• Promote normal brain function and development and address barriers to these.
• Draw attention to health inequalities in brain diseases
• Develop action plans at local, national, regional and European level to address specific areas related to brain diseases
• Influence policy decisions over the next 5-10 years
• Address controversial and difficult areas
• Stimulate open debate and dialogue on brain diseases
• Show the value of partnership across all of society
And there are many more......
TOGETHER WE MUST MAKE THE EUROPEAN YEAR OF THE BRAIN 2014 A REALITY
More information are available on:
http://www.europeanbraincouncil.org/projects/EuropeanYearoftheBrain.asp
