We are happy to announce the ESPEN Symposium in October on the very important topic of perioperative nutrition. In the beautiful setting of Nottingham, the international faculty with experts in the field will bring your knowledge to the next level, making you the expert! Clinicians, scientists, nurses and dieticians are welcome? An LLL Course in perioperative care will precede the meeting.
Registration deadline: 30th September 2018,
Info/register: Bethany.robinson@nottingham.ac.uk and emma.bradley@nottingham.ac.uk
Fees ?165-?275
Link to the program: http://espen.org/files/Symposium-Booklet.pdf

If you have an initiative or research project which could influence nutrition policy by its results, and you are endorsed by a national (PEN) society, please let MNI help you! ?30,000 is available to make advancements in the area of clinical nutrition. Have a look at past achievements and get more information!
Grant deadline: May 15th 2018
Info: http://medicalnutritionindustry.com/grant/mni-grant
Submissions and enquiries: secretariat@medicalnutritionindustry.com

nutritionDay is a worldwide initiative for hospital wards and nursing homes. It allows to evaluate the current nutrition status and care of your patients and residents using easy to complete questionnaires.

After participation you will receive an anonymous feedback report which compares the nutrition status and nutrition care of your patients or residents to our international reference. This information can be used for monitoring and quality improvement. 60 countries and 245.000 patients/residents have participated in nutritionDay since 2006.

More information: www.nutritionday.org / office@nutritionday.org

Please join us on March 1st 2018: the 4th ESPEN ?CIF Action Day?, the database for Chronic Intestinal Failure promoted by the HAN & CIF special interest group of ESPEN.
Help us to collect data on this very important patient group, and grab the opportunity to cooperate in the scientific part of the project. 79 centers cooperated last year to collect data on 6600 patients!
Read the program and subscribe through the link

The Council meeting was attended by representatives from 38 national PEN societies and 7 reporting ESPEN officers (a total of 45 participants). We welcomed colleagues from Asia (Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand), Australia, Latin America (Brazil), Africa (South Africa), and 30 from European PEN societies.
Many interesting topics were discussed, reports were approved, Discussions held on Medical education, Scientific realisations and ESPEN Guidelines, Communication channels, and information was provided on the upcoming congress in Madrid.

The Scientific Committee of ESPEN is pleased to announce the opening of the competition for the 2018 ESPEN Research Fellowships. Applications for projects in the field of Nutrition and/or Metabolism from junior researchers will be considered. ESPEN will award 6-7 Fellowships up to a maximum of ?50,000 per application. The closing date for receipt of completed applications is?5 pm CET on 1 April 2018. Applications should be sent to?espen.fellowships@gmail.com . Find here the Rules (PDF) and an application form (DOC) to download.