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• Congresses
• Education
• Care standards
• Research and scientific activities
• Communication
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European Congress on Epileptology ECE
• Dublin 1996• Warsaw 1998• Florence 2000• Madrid 2002• Vienna 2004
• Helsinki 2006
• Berlin 2008
• Rhodos 2010
• ???? 2012
Co-organisation Germany / Israel
Post Congress Satellite in St Petersburg
Selection process to be started Jan 2008Call for expression of interest from Chapters
• European Congress outcome - Evaluations– Registrations– Abstracts– Scientific programme – Sponsorship– Expanditures
– Surpluses
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CEA budget
CEA and EAC activities
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MADRID 2002
VIENNA2004
HELSINKI2006
Registrations2725 3408 3509
Abstracts
645 655
842 accepted
Platform: 126
Poster: 703
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Helsinki vs Vienna
Registration fees + 7%
Sponsorship / Exhibition - 22%
Total income - 6%
Venue costs + 25%
Abstract (Book, CD) + 150% (40 000 /104 000)
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Total expenditures + 17%
Surpluses - 36%
• Significant changes in Sponsorship– Several of the companies that had supported
the ECE for many years were not in a position to do so for the congress in Helsinki
– In some cases, the sponsors scaled down their total sponsorship contribution
– At the same time, some companies new to the field of epilepsy showed an interest in supporting the congress.
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• New modalities of collaboration– New Drug Symposium
• Schwarz Pharma and Valeant Pharmaceuticals jointly hosted a satellite symposium
– Orphan Drug Symposium• Biocodex, Eisai and UCB contributed speakers
and presentations to this Congress session.
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• Educational activities
– Educational Courses– EUREPA activities– ILAE Commission on Education activities
• Developing guidelines for CEA support
– Miscellaneous contributions
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Year 2006 2007 2008 2009
Residential (pharmacol.)
Eilat
Sept 2-9
Eilat
Sept 6-13
Migrating
Course
Serbia
May-June Lithuania Czech Republic
Contribution to other courses
S- ServoloS- Servolo
Baltic SeaS- Servolo S- Servolo
EPODES (Surgery)Brno
19-23 March
New Commission
Geographical and Thematic distribution
• Care Standards - Drugs– Generics– Rare epileptic diseases – Contribution to the colloquium on Status
Epilepticus (London, April 2007) and European guidelines for the treatment of SE
– European Project on Development of Epilepsy Surgery Programme (EPODES)
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Regulatory guidelines
AEDs DevelopersPharma industry
Evidence-basedAssessment / guideline
on AEDs
clinicians
R C TrialsStudy resultsScientific data
AESILAENiceOthers
• Contact group with European Drug Agency (EMEA)
– CEA official correspondent of the EMEA
– Exchange of views on AEDs development and use
– Discussions on specific issues like Orphan drugs
– Revision of the EMEA guideline on AEDs in 2007-2008– Efficacy working Party of the CHMP– Rapporteurs– Member state agencies– Scientific community (Europe, Worldwide, FDA)– CEA-ILAE through its contact group
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EUREPEAN PROJECT ON DEVELOPMENT OF EPILEPSY SURGERY PROGRAM (EPODES)
Ç.Özkara, W. Emde Boas, I. Rektor, P. Halasz, K. Malmgren, H. Stefan, C. Baumgartner
A-) Courses: : 19-23 March 2008, Brno (I. Rektor)
Keynote speakers and case presentations by students and tutors
B-) Fellowships: Three months of visiting a center specialized in surgery
– 5 people/year
– Endorsment required for application (fellowship should be part of the plan of development)
– Holding a position in a “center”
– Host centers prerequists should be identified
C-) Visiting professorships: 1 week
– 3 people / year
– Visit will be on request of the visited center from the host centers
• Research and scientific activities– Financial support to the MORTIMUS
study – Support to EURAP, FONDE projects– Support to the EPICURE prg
– Zurich Update Meeting (2007)
– IGE Symposium, Bridging basic and clinical sciences, Antalya-Turkey (2007)
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• Political action in favour of Epilepsy Research– Promote and facilitate Epilepsy Research across the
EU grant procedures– Defend the presence of Epilepsy-related topics in the
calls for EU grants (FrameWork Prg 7, 2006-2013)– Need for defining and expressing our research
objectives
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Epilepsy research priorities for the next decade: A representative view of the European Community
• Communication
– Website– Global campaign (Thank you for filling the
questionnaire in your files)– EUCARE
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Milda Endziniene (Lithuania)Alla Guekht, EAC Chair,(Russia)Cigdem Ozkara, CEA Secretary, (Turkey)Bettina Schmitz (Germany)Michel Baulac, CEA Chair, (France)Meir Bialer, CEA Treasurer, (Israel)Peter Halasz (Hungary)Svein Johannessen, EAC secretary, (Norway)Frederico Vigevano (Italy)
ILAE Financial Office and ILAE Headquarters Office
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• Budget
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ILAE Financial Office
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MiscellaneousMiscellaneous• Zurich Meeting (2007)
• Idiopathic generalised epilepsies Symposium, Bridging basic and clinical sciences, Antalya-Turkey (2007)
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