📅 Date: October 30, 2025
🕒 Time: 15:00–16:45
📍 Format: Online

WeMind Cluster collaborates in this webinar to explore Spain’s pioneering Brain Plan 2025–2035 and its role in shaping the brain economy.

The Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA), Brain Capital Alliance, and Brain Economy Hub, in collaboration with WeMind Cluster and the Spanish Brain Council, invite you to this session under the WEF – Brain Economy Action Forum.

Spain is facing a pressing challenge: nearly 43% of its population suffers from neurological or psychiatric conditions. In response, the country has launched the Spanish Brain Plan 2025–2035, a groundbreaking national roadmap addressing brain health through five critical pillars: data and impact measurement, equitable access, research, prevention, and community engagement.

This session will connect Spain’s Brain Plan to global health priorities, highlight its economic potential, and foster dialogue on implementation pathways—bringing together experts from WHO, academia, innovation hubs, and civil society.

Key Topics

• The global urgency to scale up brain health services (WHO perspective).
• Brain economy logic: brain capital as a driver of resilience and prosperity.
• Spain’s Brain Plan 2025–2035: from vision to implementation.
• The role of innovation, neurotech, and lifestyle changes in brain health.
• Collaboration and funding strategies to move from plan to action.

Agenda

1. Opening Remarks : Professor Rym Ayadi, President and Founder, Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA); Co-founder of the Brain Capital Alliance and the Brain Economy Hub
2. Keynote – What next from UNGA 80 and G20? Speaker: Harris Eyre, Senior Fellow, Rice University and EMEA Advisor
3. Keynote – Global Mental health and key challenges Speaker: Devora Kestel, Director, Non-communicable Diseases and Mental Health, WHO
4. Keynote – Spanish Brain Plan 2025–2035: From Vision to Implementation Speaker: Mara Dierssen Sotos, President, Spanish Brain Council
5. Panel Discussion
   o WeMind Cluster (Catalonia): Part of implementation strategy Marta S. Bret, Director, WeMind Cluster
   o Imperative of Innovation: digital tools and neurotech for brain capital Javier Solana, Research Director, Guttman Institute
   o Role of Lifestyle changes during the life cycle Dr. Rafael de la Torre Fornel, Integrative Pharmacology and Systems Neuroscience Research Group (FINS), Hospital del Mar Research Institute
   o Role of philanthropy in the implementation
   Liria Fuentes, Director of Fundraising, Pasqual Maragall Foundation
   David Gow, CEO, Center for Houston’s Future
   Stephanie Debette, Executive Director, Paris Brain Institute Executive Director
   Pawel Swieboda, Founder, NeuroCentury; EMEA Advisor; Co-founder, Brain Capital Alliance
   Agustín Ibáñez, Director, BrainLat Institute; Advisor, EMEA

Registration

👉 The event is open to the public – no registration required, simply CLICK the link at the scheduled date and time.

Expected Outcomes

• Alignment of Spain’s Brain Plan with WHO and WEF agendas
• Concrete policy pathways for effective implementation
• Enhanced visibility of Spain as a pioneering model in brain economy
• Collaborative agenda for research, pilots, and funding strategies