Scientific Workshops

Our Scientific Workshops aim at unraveling unanswered questions in the field of IBD, producing authoritative reviews and thus contributing to the body of knowledge. These workshops are organised annually by our Scientific Committee.

These workshops address a single question, with working groups performing a systematic review to be published and setting the goals for research to answer the question.

Patient material is used to study a given question from different aspects in working groups of 5-8 members. Involvement is limited to participating members, who are presenting predefined aspects of a relevant question (~ 20 min each). A brainstorming discussion aims at outlining a resolution. The research would be funded by open application to grant-funding bodies, including ECCO for pilot work.

Interested or invited basic scientists welcome to participate but must be identified prior to the meeting. All participants follow a strict ethical code including the agreement not to use discussions and resolutions outside of ECCO and to follow pre-discussed rules on publication and authorship. No direct industry sponsoring will be accepted.

Current Scientific Workshop Calls:

ECCO Call for a new topic for Scientific Workshop 4

(Deadline: September 15, 2012)