EPA is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Early Career Psychiatrists (ECP) Scholarship Programme:

Alkomiet HASAN, Germany
Nikolina JOVANOVIC, Croatia
Mario LUCIANO, Italy
Sameer JAUHAR, Scotland
Elena SHMUNK, Russia

The winners receive Congress registration fee exemption to the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry, organised by EPA in Vienna, Austria, from 12-15 March 2011, travel to and from the congress [...]

EPA is pleased to announce the start of Prof. Patrice Boyer’s mandate as the EPA President. Prof. Patrice Boyer (France) takes office on 1 January 2011 for a mandate of two years, succeeding Prof. Hans-Jürgen Möller (Germany).
If you would like to send a comment or welcoming wish to Professor Patrice Boyer, please do so by [...]

EPA is very pleased to announce that the application process for the next EPA Executive Committee elections is opened. For more information, please click here.

The application deadline for the EUROPEAN BMS PREVENTION AWARD IN PSYCHIATRY has been extedend  until Friday 31 December 2010.
The award has been established to recognize distinguished research in the field of prevention in psychiatric disorders, including psychosis, depression, anxiety and dementia.
The winner will be awarded with 20,000 euros for scientific purposes at his or her [...]

The 1st EPA Academia Faculty Workshop entitled “Delivering effective and high quality CME courses” took place on 13 November 2010 in the EPA Headquarters in Strasbourg, France.
The Faculty Workshop was aimed at enhancing the effectiveness and acceptability of the EPA CME courses, exchanging good practices in planning and running the courses, and utilising existing expertise [...]

The EPA Committee on Education members met on 10 September 2010 at the EPA Headquarters in Strasbourg (France) to discuss the EPA Academia activities. The meeting was chaired by Prof. Henning Sass, EPA Secretary for Education, and lasted one full day. Two guests participated in the meeting: Dr. Domenico Giacco, President Elect of the European [...]

The 18th European Congress of Psychiatry was organised from 27 February to 2 March 2010 in Munich, Germany, under the presidency of Professor Hans-Jürgen Möller, EPA President. It was attended by nearly 3500 participants. To view the congress photo gallery, please click here.

The 15th Symposium of the EPA Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry Section is under preparation in collaboration with the EPA Cultural Psychiatry Section and will take place in Bergen, Norway, from 16 to 19 June 2010.