Congresses

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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

Post Congress Satellite in St Petersburg
Co-organisation Germany / Israel
Selection process to be started Jan 2008 Call for
expression of interest from Chapters
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• European Congress outcome - Evaluations
• Registrations
• Abstracts
• Scientific programme
• Sponsorship
• Expanditures
• Surpluses

CEA budget
CEA and EAC activities
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MADRID 2002 VIENNA 2004 HELSINKI 2006
Registrations 2725 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)
. ..
Total expenditures 17

Surpluses - 36
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• 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- Servolo S- Servolo Baltic Sea S- Servolo S- Servolo
EPODES (Surgery) Brno 19-23 March
Geographical and Thematic distribution
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• 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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• 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

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• 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

Epilepsy research priorities for the next decade
A representative view of the European Community
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• 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

ILAE Financial Office
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• Miscellaneous
• Zurich Meeting (2007)
• Idiopathic generalised epilepsies Symposium,
  Bridging basic and clinical sciences,
  Antalya-Turkey (2007)