On 27 October, eBRAIN-Health, a Horizon Europe-funded project that kicked off in July 2022, hosted its first general assembly meeting, online. The eBRAIN-Health project aims to create an infrastructure for the lawful and transparent sharing of brain data, with the goal of building virtual representations of the brain to improve research and clinical management for brain conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.
The General Assembly was attended by representatives of the 20 eBRAIN-health partners, as well as additional attendees, such as representatives of the EPND project, who are conducting activities that are closely linked to those of eBRAIN-Health. Jean Georges (Executive Director), Dianne Gove (Director for Projects), Angela Bradshaw (Project Officer), and Daphné Lamirel (Project Officer) attended the meeting as representatives of Alzheimer Europe. AE is involved in several work packages of the project, conducting activities related to communication and dissemination, public involvement, and ethics. Prof. Petra Ritter, from Charité University Hospital in Berlin, and coordinator of the eBRAIN-Health project, started the meeting by presenting an overview of project updates. The leading partners of each work package presented what they have achieved in the first 4 months of the project, and their priorities for the upcoming months. They also discussed interactions with other WPs and responded to questions from the group. Following the work package presentations, Anthony Brookes presented the EPND platform and explained how eBRAIN-Health can build on the existing expertise developed by EPND. This was followed by questions from the group and concluding remarks from Petra, who thanked everyone for attending.