INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY ILAE Commission on European

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) Chair: Meir Bialer , Israel meirb@ekmd. huji. ac. il Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK mwalker@ion. ucl. ac. uk Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria 1 CEA is the ILAE European Commission CEA Chairs Simon Shorvon (GB): 1993 -1997 Martin Brodie (GB): 1997 -2001 Svein I. Johannessen (Norway): 2001 -2005 Michel Baulac (France): 2005 -2009 Meir Bialer (Israel): 2009 -2017 CEA has continuity The CEA past-chair is a full member You must serve one term as a CEA member before you can become a CEA chair

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) CEA Accomplishments 2009 -2013 Chair: Meir Bialer , Israel meirb@ekmd. huji. ac. il Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK mwalker@ion. ucl. ac. uk Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria 2 a. Established the CEA Strategic & Action Plans b. Established the European Educational Agenda c. Established the migrating, EPODES & the Eilat Educational courses as CEA Core Courses (CCC) d. Supported the annual San Servolo, Stereo-EEG, VIREPA, Baltic and Caucasian Summer Schools, as CEA-Sponsored Activities (CSA) e. Continuing the European Congresses on Epileptology (ECE) as one of the most successful international scientific epilepsy congresses & updating the ECE guidelines

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) CEA Accomplishments 2009 -2013 Chair: Meir Bialer , Israel meirb@ekmd. huji. ac. il Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK mwalker@ion. ucl. ac. uk Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria 3 f. Promoted Epilepsy Advocacy & Research in Europe (EAE) through a joint ILAE-IBE Task Force (JTF), in partnership with European ILAE chapters and IBE associations g. Subsequently epilepsy research was included at the EU-FP-7 call for grant proposals h. Established collaboration between the CEA & the ILAE-North American. A joint CEA-CNA symposium at the 2011 & 2013 AES & 2012 -ECE i. Started a collaboration with the ILAE-CAA (Commission on African Affairs) aiming to answer unmet educational needs in Africa

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) CEA Activities for 2014 Chair: Meir Bialer , Israel meirb@ekmd. huji. ac. il Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK mwalker@ion. ucl. ac. uk Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria 4 11 th European Congress on Epileptology (ECE) (Stockholm; 29/6 -3/7/2014) The CEA will award travel bursaries to young investigators (< 45 years) who submit good abstracts European Chapter Convention during the Stockholm-ECE (29/6/2014). Thus, continuing an annual dialogue between the CEA & the various ILAE-European chapters (44/46 chapters) CEA Awards given at the Stockholm-ECE European Epileptology Award : C. A. Tassinari (Italy) & W. Loscher (Germany) Non-monetary Awards European Education Award: I. Rektor (Czech Republic) European Young Investigator Award (<45 years) T. Ravizza (Italy) & S. Vulliemoz (Switzerland) European Service Award: V. Hezser-v Wehrs (Germany) A call for CEA-sponsored courses/symposia during 2014 was issued on 10/4/2013.

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) Chair: CEA Sponsored-Courses/Symposia in 2014 Meir Bialer , Israel meirb@ekmd. huji. ac. il CEA-Core Courses (CCC) Secretary: Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Course (Brno, 13 -17/1) 8 th Migrating Course on Epilepsy (Dubrovnik, 5 -10/10) Matthew Walker, UK mwalker@ion. ucl. ac. uk Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria 5 CEA-Sponsored Activities (CSA) 4 th Stereo-EEG Course (Lyon, 12 -16/2) 6 th Caucasian Summer School (Bakuriani, Georgia, 1 -6/6) 9 th Slovenian Epilepsy Int. Course (Ljubljana, 5 -7/6) East-European Course on Epilepsy (Romania, 11 -13/6) 2 nd Dianalund Summer School on EEG & Epilepsy (13 -19/7) 8 th Baltic Sea Summer School (Trakai, Lithuania, 3 -8/8) Epilepsy workshop on pediatrics (Bucharest, 12 -13/9) 2 nd Neuropathology Summer School (Erlangen, 29/9 -3/10) Two Visiting Professorships (Portugal & Romania)

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) CEA -Sponsored Course in 2015 Chair: Meir Bialer , Israel meirb@ekmd. huji. ac. il Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK mwalker@ion. ucl. ac. uk Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria 6 A call for CEA-sponsored courses/symposia during 2015 was issued on 12/3/2014 (submission deadline: 23/6/2014) The submitted applications were discussed at the CEA meeting on 23/8/2014 Funding available will be limited due the low surplus from the Stockholm-ECE CEA Awards to be given at the Prague-ECE (submission deadline 31/12/2015) European Epileptology Award (EUR 5, 000) Non-monetary Awards European Education Award European Young Investigator Award (<45 years) European Service Award

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) Chair: CEA Sponsored-Courses/Symposia in 2015 Meir Bialer , Israel meirb@ekmd. huji. ac. il CEA-Core Courses (CCC) Secretary: Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Course (Brno, 13 -17/1) 6 th Eilat Educational Course on Pharmacology (11 -15/10) Matthew Walker, UK mwalker@ion. ucl. ac. uk Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria 7 CEA-Sponsored Activities (CSA) Course in European Central Asia, Astana, Kazakhstan (8 -11/4) 5 th London-Innsbruck SE, London (9 -11/4/2015) 2 nd International Course on Drug Resistant Epilepsies in Tagliacozzo, Italy (3 -9/5) San-Servolo Course on Pediatrics (Venice, 19 -31/7) 9 th Baltic Sea Summer School , Sigulda, Latvia (9 -14/8)

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) Chair: Meir Bialer , Israel meirb@ekmd. huji. ac. il Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK mwalker@ion. ucl. ac. uk Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria 8 a. CEA Accomplishments 2014 -2015 Promoted Epilepsy Advocacy & Research in Europe (EAE) through a joint ILAE-IBE Task Force (JTF), in partnership with European ILAE chapters and IBE associations b. A new Joint ILAE/IBE European legal entity in Ireland was established to enable the EAR (JTF) to apply for EU grants c. Established a collaboration with the European Academy of Neurology (EAN). A joint CEA-EAN -WG was formed to substantiate this collaboration c. EAN-CEA joint symposia at the 2016 EAN and ECE congresses as well as a joint educational course

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) e. Revised Educational Agenda Chair: Meir Bialer , Israel meirb@ekmd. huji. ac. il Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK mwalker@ion. ucl. ac. uk Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria 9 a. Reduced funding for the present core courses b. A migrating course will materialize only upon demand secured local findings c. A graded core course on general epileptology with a curriculum and funding from CEA & EAN with CME accreditation d. The selected non-core courses will be supported up to $7000 per course

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) CEA -Sponsored Course in 2016 Chair: Meir Bialer , Israel meirb@ekmd. huji. ac. il Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK mwalker@ion. ucl. ac. uk Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria 10 A call for CEA-sponsored courses/symposia during 2016 was issued on 12/3/2016 (submission deadline: 22/6/2014) The submitted applications were discussed at the CEA meeting on 29/8/2015 Funding available will be limited due the low surplus from the Stockholm-ECE CEA Awards to be given at the Prague-ECE (submission deadline 31/12/2015) European Epileptology Award (EUR 5, 000) Non-monetary Awards European Education Award European Young Investigator Award (<45 years) European Service Award

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) CEA -Sponsored Course in 2016 Chair: Meir Bialer , Israel meirb@ekmd. huji. ac. il Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK mwalker@ion. ucl. ac. uk Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria 11 A call for CEA-sponsored courses/symposia during 2016 was issued on 12/3/2015 (submission deadline: 23/6/2015) The submitted applications were discussed at the CEA meeting on 29/8/2015 CEA-Sponsored Activities (CSA) 7 th Stereo-EEG Course (Venice, 12 -16/2) 3 nd International Course on Drug Resistant Epilepsies (Tagliacozzo, Italy, 8 -14/5) 7 th Caucasian Summer School (Baku, Azerbaijan, 22 -28/5) 10 th Baltic Sea Summer School (Trakai, Lithuania, 5 -10/6) 2 nd East-European Course on Epilepsy (Romania, 8 -10/6) 2 nd Dianalund Summer School on EEG (Denmark, 17 -23/6) San-Servolo Course on Surgery (Venice, 17 -28/7) 4 nd Neuropathology Summer School (Erlangen, 31/7 -4/8) 2 nd Inflammation & Immunity conf. (Milan, 13 -15/10)