Each year, our Society succeeds in designing a truly magnificent scientific program during our Annual Meeting in November. The topic of this year’s meeting is: Anesthetic Challenges in the Roaring 20’s.

Looking at the number of anesthesiologists attending the meeting each year, this has proven to be a highly successful format for many years. This will undoubtedly also be the case for this year’s edition: World renowned experts will share knowledge and provide science-based opinions about key topics in anesthesia.

As last year, we will schedule the ethical program and the hands-on workshops on Friday.

It goes without saying that we are organizing the meeting with all the necessary precautions to keep you and all other participants safe.

More information: https://www.besarpp.be/en/events/congress-2021/

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

The promotion of quality management is essential. Treatment outcome assessment, research outcomes, guidelines, best papers and best practices
are not known by all practitioners.

For this reason, the European Spine Journal organizes its third Spine Sciences “Meet the Experts™” Forum focusing on revision surgery.
Experts in this field have been carefully selected and asked to provide the Journal with an article describing their techniques and experience. These articles will be published as a ‘special issue’ of the European Spine Journal.

The Spine Sciences “Meet the Experts™” Forum aims at optimizing exchanges of knowledge.

This meeting will be highly interactive. With this scope, the format has been designed and based on interactive case-based discussions with experts - rather than on lectures - with residual time left for discussion. You will have the opportunity to interact with some of the most respected world experts in the field, while bridging between state-of-the-art sciences and clinical practice.

We look forward to seeing you in Madrid!

Robert Gunzburg

Editor-in-Chief European Spine Journal

The 'Belgian Federation of Sports Physiotherapy' is proud to present its first national congress for Sports Physiotheraphie on Saturday 18 December 2021.
Following the success of our initiatives in both the Flanders and Walloon regions and after 2 inter-universitary congresses in Flanders, we organise a first NATIONAL congress, supported by all our Belgian partner universities. Our hosts are VUB and ULB.
Share our passion for Sports Physiotherapy!

We are pleased to invite you to join the face-to-face Bone Curriculum Symposium and the Pre-Symposium on Rare Bone Diseases organised by the KBVR / SRBR Osteoporosis and Fracture Prevention Group at the Conference Center Het Pand in Ghent on 21 & 22 October 2021.

More information: http://www.symposium-osteoporosis.org/

In één dag hebt u samen met 800 huisartsen en andere zorgprofessionals uit de eerste lijn toegang tot ruim 70 geaccrediteerde sessies en meer dan 90 exposanten. Dat maakt de Huisartsenconferentie en Vakbeurs van Domus Medica tot een uniek evenement!

Op 1 en 2 oktober 2021 organiseren de afdelingen nierziekten van de ZNA en GZA ziekenhuisgroepen een dialysecursus met als titel Hemodialyse Update: van theorie naar praktijk.

We take great pleasure in inviting you to the DXA Radioprotection Course 2021, which will take place in Brussels on Saturday 20 November.
This Course is co-organised by the Belgian Bone Club and the KBVR/SRBR Osteoporosis and Fracture Prevention Group.

The Royal Belgian Society for Rheumatology takes great pleasure in announcing the 25th Belgian Congress on Rheumatology, taking place at the Egg in Brussels on 29 - 30 September & 1 October 2021.
We are honoured to inform you that this year’s edition will be a co-organisation between the KBVR-SRBR and the Société française de Rhumatologie (SFR).
This year the programme will especially focus on the research by young investigators, but it will be a well-known mix of state-of-the-art invited lectures by internationally renowned speakers, selected oral presentations and Updates organised with the support of the industry.
Together with the KBVR-SRBR Board members, we hope and expect to be able to welcome you to a fully live congress in Brussels, and we also look forward to welcoming our French colleagues.

Dear colleagues and friends,


Unprecedented times… required unprecedented measures. Due to the worldwide pandemic, we were not be able to invite you all to the Twelfth International Congress on Spondyloarthritides in 2020, but will try to make it up now in September 2021.

The Belgian COVID-19 measures and internal rules of the University of Gent, allow us to welcome only a small number of participants to Gent. We therefore were forced to restrict the live congress to the Organising and Scientific Committees, the speakers and the sponsors, without whose support the organisation of this congress would not be possible.


However, we are pleased to announce that the congress will be livestreamed on an online platform where you and many international colleagues can tune in and view the talks in real-time or at a convenient time for a month after the congress dates. Furthermore, the platform will offer ample opportunity for networking.

The congress has grown over the years to become the premier international event in the field of the Spondylarthritides. The success of the Gent congress has been underpinned by the quality of the scientific contributions including the state-of-the-art lectures given by carefully chosen guest speakers and selected abstract presenters. To facilitate the organisation of a live event, the local and scientific organizers focused on excellent speakers from continental Western Europe. We have not forgotten our far-away friends and colleagues and hope to see you back in 2022 at the next full edition.

The programme for the 2021 congress will still offer a wide range of topics including basic and clinical translational research, genetics, imaging and therapeutics.

In 2018, the ‘Gent Oration’ was introduced, aimed to honor a scientist or clinician with an established trajectory in the field which we expect with time, to become one of the main highlights of the congress. It is our great pleasure to invite Professor Maxime Dougados as the inaugural Gent orator in this second edition.

We hope to welcome you online to the Twelfth International Congress on Spondyloarthritides and remain,

Yours sincerely,

Rik Lories, President
Dirk Elewaut and Filip Van den Bosch, Local Organisers

The three day international conference will consist of plenary lectures, oral presentations, poster sessions and an exhibition. Companies and research organizations are offered the opportunity to organize a satellite symposium.

The Annual Meeting of the Benelux Society of Phlebology, in collaboration with the Dutch College of Phlebology (DCoP) and the Belgian Society for Vascular Surgery (BSVS) will take place in Faculty Club in Leuven.

Due to the persistently high number of infections and hospitalisations, we hereby inform you that the live congress that was scheduled in March will be replaced by a one-day online congress and virtual exhibition on Friday 19 March 2021.

Belgian Congress on Rheumatology
Ostend, Brussels, Spa, Bruges, Leuven, Genk
400 participants

European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health
We have been appointed as the official PCO for the 2017 and 2019 editions of the ECTMIH.
In 2017, the Congress was organised by the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium. We welcomed over 1,500 International Participants to the edition in Antwerp.
In 2019, the Congress took place at the ACC in Liverpool, UK. This edition was organised by the RSTMH and over 1,200 International Participants attended the Congress in Liverpool.
Both congresses had a well elaborated scientific programme and great social events.

International Congress on Spondyloarthritides
Bi-Annualy at Ghent Opera

The World Arthroplasty Congress was held in Rome in 2018 and hosted 1500 participants from all over the world.

International Conference on Computers, Privacy & Data Protection.
2016-2017-2018-2019-2020
750 participants

International Conference on Renewable Resources & Biorefineries
Last editions:
2015: York, UK - 2016: Ghent, Belgium - 2017: Wroclav, Poland - 2018: Ghent, Belgium - 2019: Toulouse, France
Number of participants: 150

European Knee Society Open Meeting was hosted in London in 2017 and in Rome in 2019

European Congress on Crop Protection
Ghent, Belgium
1500 participants

Interdisciplinary World Congress on Low Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain
2013: Dubai, UAE - 2016: Singapore - 2019, Antwerp, Belgium
750 participants

Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery.

International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth

Bringing together several Spine societies, since 2004
Previous editions:
2004: Porto, Portugal
2016: Singapore
2000 participants

CPDP gathers academics, lawyers, practitioners, policy-makers, industry and civil society from all over the world in Brussels, offering them an arena to exchange ideas and discuss the latest emerging issues and trends. This unique multidisciplinary formula has served to make CPDP one of the leading data protection and privacy conferences in Europe and around the world.

Organized by the European Knee Society (EKS), the International Congress for Joint Reconstruction (ICJR) and supported by the European Hip Society (EHS), the World Arthroplasty Congress is the meeting dedicated to the exchange of surgical innovation, cutting-edge science and practical knowledge related to joint arthroplasty.

Virtual International Conference on Applied and Analytical Pyrolysis