1 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) Chair: Meir Bialer, Israel Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria CEA is the ILAE European Commission CEA Chairs Simon Shorvon (GB): Martin Brodie (GB): Svein I. Johannessen (Norway): Michel Baulac (France): Meir Bialer (Israel): 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

2 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) CEA Accomplishments 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 Chair: Meir Bialer, Israel Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria

3 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) CEA Accomplishments 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 Chair: Meir Bialer, Israel Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria

4 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) 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. CEA Activities for 2014 Chair: Meir Bialer, Israel Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria

5 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) CEA-Core Courses (CCC) Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Course (Brno, 13-17/1) 8 th Migrating Course on Epilepsy (Dubrovnik, 5-10/10) CEA-Sponsored Activities (CSA) 4 th Stereo-EEG Course (Lyon,12-16/2) 6th 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) CEA Sponsored-Courses/Symposia in 2014 Chair: Meir Bialer, Israel Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria

6 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) 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 CEA -Sponsored Course in 2015 Chair: Meir Bialer, Israel Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria

7 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) CEA-Core Courses (CCC) Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Course (Brno, 13-17/1) 6th Eilat Educational Course on Pharmacology (11-15/10) CEA-Sponsored Activities (CSA) Course in European Central Asia, Astana, Kazakhstan (8-11/4) 5th London-Innsbruck SE, London (9-11/4/2015) 2nd 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) CEA Sponsored-Courses/Symposia in 2015 Chair: Meir Bialer, Israel Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria

8 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) CEA Accomplishments a.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 Chair: Meir Bialer, Israel Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria

9 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) e. Revised Educational Agenda a.Reduced funding for the present core courses b.A migrating course will materialize only upon demand and 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 Chair: Meir Bialer, Israel Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria

10 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) 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 CEA -Sponsored Course in 2016 Chair: Meir Bialer, Israel Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria

11 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE AGAINST EPILEPSY (ILAE) Commission on European Affairs (CEA) 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) 7th 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) CEA -Sponsored Course in 2016 Chair: Meir Bialer, Israel Secretary: Matthew Walker, UK Sándor Beniczky, Denmark Dana Craiu, Romania Emilio Perucca, Italy Torbjorn Tomson, Sweden Eugen Trinka, Austria Annamaria Vezzani, Italy Eugen Trinka, Austria