AFRICA

Yaoundé, Cameroon

"Epilepsy: Why Mystic?"
This event aims to dispel the mystical origin of epilepsy in the mind of the population of the Sanaga Valley, where the prevalence of epilepsy is high, and to give the scientific explication of epilepsy, then provide strategies to avoid the disease. Video projection and posters will be used.

Organizer: Rigobert Espoir Ayissi Mbomo
Award: 500 euros

Rabat, Morocco

"Arts and Brain Competition"
Competition for children and teenagers from 8 to 18 years, Association Sciences et Culture pour Tous.

Organizer: El Ganouni Soumaya
Award: 1000 euros

Nairobi, Kenya

"Increasing Stroke Awareness among Kenyan Medical Students and Patients at an Outpatient Diabetes Clinic"
Cerebrovascular disease is increasing in prevalence globally. Kenya is not an exception and with changing lifestyles, dietary habits, cigarette smoking and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle in the urban population, efforts need to be made to increase public awareness on stroke.

Organizer: Gilbert Ochieng
Award: 200 euros

Nairobi, Kenya

"The Ubongo Campaign and Kenya Brain Bee, 2009"
Events for high school students and university students, including visits to neuroscience labs; Brain Bee Competition for rural and urban high school students; career lectures on research opportunities in neuroscience.

Organizer: Hussein Dossajee
Award: 400 euros

Abuja, Nigeria

"A Healthy Environment for a Healthy Brain"
The team will visit schools in different regions of Nigeria not yet covered by previous campaigns and will emphasize good habits that are healthy to the brain and body. There will be essay and poster competition for secondary school students. The campaign will be extended to those who work in hazardous environments.

Organizer: Polycarp Nwoha
Award: 400 euros

Calabar, Nigeria

"Brain and You"
5 days of events: student rally to create awareness about BAW; lectures on brain and nervous system, careers in neuroscience; Brain Bee competition. Campaign will visit local schools, primary and secondary.

Organizer: Mokutima Amarachi Eluwa
Award: 750 euros (Brain Bee)

Ibadan, Nigeria

"Awareness on the Causes and Effects of Head Injury on the Brain" The four-day program will include a public rally in Damaturu among 500 motor bike riders, a campaign in 2 secondary schools,1 tertiary institution of 300 students. A radio talk-show program will be held on prevention of domestic causes of head injury.

Organizer: Adefisayo Adekanmbi
Award: 600 euros

Kano, Nigeria

"Side Effects of Brain Stimulants in Tea Taken by Commercial Motor Cycle Riders and Taxi Drivers in Kano State"
Focus on motor cycle riders, taxi and cab drivers, many of whom rely on brain stimulants for high performance, to create awareness of the hazards of brain stimulants on the brain and to reduce the accidents caused.

Organizer: Rabiu Abdussalam Magaji
Award: 500 euros

Zaria, Nigeria

Symposium "Brain Neuroscience and Head Injury"
Aim: to create and increase general awareness on the study of Neuroscience, to disseminate information on the brain, in health, accidents and disease, to increase awareness of brain disorders caused by head injury especially among motor cycles riders and industrial workers, to inform the general public about the important of brain research.

Organizer: Ogboi Sonny Johnbull
Award: 400 euros

Gulu, Uganda

"Your Brain Your Wealth, Understanding The Brain For A Better Living"
This project is intended to act as a foundation in promoting awareness about the brain in northern Uganda where no single brain awareness activity has been carried out before. The project will also sensitize and prepare the participants as a foundation for brain awareness week in March of next year.

The project is scheduled to create a self sustaining brain awareness campaign.
The target audience is science teachers from 50 primary and secondary schools, student leaders from these schools, and education and other district officers.

This group has been chosen because their empowerment will be used to organise future brain awareness activities in their schools, including an annual brain bee and a brain art competition. The overall impact is intended to create a wider understanding of the brain as well as to inspire students to opt for carriers in neuroscience, neurology and neurosurgery.

Organizer: Francis Ojok
Award: 1000 euros

Kampala, Uganda 

"Promoting Neuroscience through Sports"
Events include Brain Awareness Soccer Tournament, Race to a Healthy Brain (cross-country bicycle racing), Sports Science vs Neuroscience (lectures about the role of sports in mental health and brain functioning).

Organizer: Sekabira Wilson
Award: 500 euros

ASIAN/PACIFIC REGION

Perth, Australia

"Kids Brain Training"
The activities aim to provide a basic overview of what the brain is and why it is important. The target audience is schoolchildren age 5-12 visiting the Science Museum.

Organizer: Jennifer Rodger
Award: 865 euros

Angamaly, India

"Brain Awareness 2009"
Aim: to popularize the importance of Brain and Neurosciences to students and the general public in this area. There will be a seminar, public talks, exhibitions and competitions.

Organizer: J. K. Mukkadan
Award: 400 euros

Bombay, India

Events include: talks by eminent neuroscientists; 3 days of poster and verbal presentations on brain and the nervous system; 3 days of live demonstrations of experimental approach towards neuroscience research; 3 days of free diagnostic screening of brain or executive dysfunction and learning disorder.

Organizer: Azizuddin Khan
Award 300 euros

Chandigarh, India

"Chandigarh Brain Bee 2009"
Aim: to initiate the young minds into taking up a career in neurosciences: target population high school students, their teachers and other lay public. Held 31 January 2009.

Organizer: Dheeraj Khurana
Award: 750 euros (Brain Bee)

Cochin, India

"World Brain Awareness Week 2009"
The programme will include lab and hospital visits, lectures on brain diseases such as Parkinson's, Epilepsy, Trauma, Stroke, Memory loss, Depression, Headache, Brain tumours and Psychological and Psychiatric problems and also the role of brain in creating the mind. There will be interactive sessions for students from colleges and schools and general public with scientists and doctors.

Organizer: C. S. Paulose
Award: 350 euros

Mangalore, India 

"Brain Awareness Lecture Series"
Objectives are to create awareness about neuroscience and how scientists work on the brain. This will be first exposure in neuroscience for students of biology and psychology at St. Aloysius College and will include a series of lectures by Indian neuroscientists working in neurobiology and neurology.

Organizer: Monika Sadananda
Award: 300 euros

Weligama, Sri Lanka

"Brain Day in Southern Sri Lanka Schools"
A one-day introductory course in Basic Neuroscience for students (grades 10-13) and biology teachers of Southern Sri Lanka.

Organizer: Ann Kato
Award: 350 euros

LATIN AMERICA

Minas Gerais, Brazil

"NeuroEduca: The brain goes to school"
NeuroEduca organizers will visit schools to encourage teachers to use their previous training regarding brain and education, to stimulate students to read about the brain, to promote public understanding about the way the brain gives rise to behavior in daily activities, to promote interaction among families, community and school, to communicate ways of promoting brain health.

Organizer: Leonor Bezerra Guerra
Award: 500 euros

Campeche, Mexico

Christmas Neuroscience Seminar 2009 How our brain works when we...?
Feel hungry. Grow up. Swim. Dream. A one-day seminar for students enrolled in areas such as Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Nursery, Dentistry, Medicine as well as general public (probably 200 people). The principal aim of this event will be to provide a better public understanding of the functions of the brain. The event also will empower public to learn about the brain and some of basic behaviors. This is the first such seminar in the southeast region of Mexico.

Organizer: Eric Murillo Rodríguez
Award: 500 euros

Mexico D.F., Mexico

"Brain Awareness Week"
Symposia and conferences dedicated to Neuroscience will be imparted for scientists in high schools, colleges and universities, where the focus will be on improving students' interest in Neuroscience basic research. There will be workshops for the general public with the purpose of showing some principles of brain function, using games and computer programs. Locations: Mexico City, Queretaro, Tlaxcala, Puebla, Xalapa, Colima, Guanajuato, Merida.

Organizer: José Antonio Arias Montaño
Award: 800 euros

Maracaibo, Venezuela

"Music and Brain"
The objective is to promote mental health starting with the knowledge of the central nervous system, the anatomy of the brain, its importance as an organ, how to take care of it, and the illnesses, substances and bad habits that affect it. This year's topic will be the relationship between music and brain. Target audience teaching and student population of pre-school and elementary schools, parents and/or representatives, adults and health professionals.

Organizer: Gladys Maestre de Homes
Award: 500 euros