Brain Awareness Week
During the Brain Awareness Week, held worldwide annually in March, the neuroscientists and other brain scientists inform the wide public on their research activities and their achievements to advance public awareness about the progress and benefits of brain research. The Brain Awareness Week was created in USA by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives in 1996, the European activities are coordinated by the European Dana Alliance for the Brain (EDAB).
In 2009, the eleventh year of the Brain Awareness Week in the Czech Republic will take place on Mach 16–22, 2009. The main events will be held in the main building of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The organizers are:
Institute of Experimantal Medicine, v. v. i., ASCR
Czech Neuroscience Society
Media Communication Department, ASCR
