Announcements from EPA/UNEPSA

EPA/UNEPSA is sorry to announce the postponement of the Fall workshop on Nutrition & EBM for September 2011.

Visit the EPA/UNEPSA website regularly to get updates on the programme of the workshop series for 2011 and secure your place!

EPA/UNEPSA Individual Membership

Join the most extensive paediatric network in Europe!

The European Paediatric Association (EPA/UNEPSA) is offering you the opportunity to become member on an individual basis. EPA/UNEPSA welcomes all doctors who are certified as paediatricians in Europe and are members of a National Paediatric Society/Association participating in EPA/UNEPSA.
By joining EPA/UNEPSA, you gain access to a network of 38 national European associations and open yourself to a new world of opportunities.

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An Appeal on Behalf of Children and Adolescents in Europe

The Council of the European Paediatric Association meeting in Vienna on March 20th, 2010, restates what was approved by all the Presidents of the European National Societies of Paediatrics meeting in Rome in September 2006 in their appeal on behalf of health and sick children and adolescents in Europe.

EPA emphasizes the importance of alerting the governments and public opinion to take prompt, integrated and appropriate measures to improve research, educational and healthcare policies in favour of children. Particularly the governments and public opinion are alerted on the following actions:

  • Promotion of paediatric research
  • Promotion of paediatric training
  • Promoting the use of information and communication technologies to enhance public awareness of children’s need and health education
  • Investments in health care for infants, children and adolescents
  • Fighting against inequity of healthcare and quality of life of children in Europe
  • Integration of children with different cultural and ethnic backgrounds

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