Consult the most up to date information on the Barcelona Congress Programme and create your personal itinerary:

• www.ersnetsecure.org/public/prg_congres.entree?ww_i_congres=108
  

To help authors presenting their abstract at the Congress, please follow the guidelines on the following page.

The Symposia will cover the most recent topics on research and clinical practice, including:

• Integrated care for chronic respiratory disease
• Similarities and differences between asthma and COPD
• Novel molecular targets for inflammatory and infectious lung diseases
• Challenges in sleep medicine: ventilatory failure during sleep
• Noninvasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure
• Treatment of the bacteriological variety in lung diseases
• Food allergy and asthma: issues and controversies
• Treatment of bronchial infection
• Effective oxygen therapy in home care
• Asthma and sports
• Severe exacerbations in asthma and COPD: new causes, new mechanisms, new models of care
• Breathing therapies for asthma
• Lung cancer: progress after first-line therapy and customised chemotherapy
• High priority questions on airway infections in diseases seen in children and adults
• Nutrition and cancer

The Congress Programme will be online in April 2010.

• Adult and paediatric respiratory physicians, intensive care specialists, respiratory oncologists, thoracic surgeons, radiologists, GPs and other clinicians;
• nurses and physiotherapists;
• researchers in respiratory science;
• advocates and researchers in public health and health promotion, including environmental and occupational health.
  

ERS sponsorship

Sponsorship opportunities are available to the corresponding author of an accepted abstract from Eastern and Central European countries and developing countries. The ERS offers two levels of sponsorship, Gold and Silver, which are awarded depending on the quality of the abstract as evaluated by the Scientific Programme Committee.

• Gold Sponsorship: the corresponding author receives a fixed amount to cover travel and accommodation expenses, free Congress registration and two Postgraduate Courses;
• Silver Sponsorship: the corresponding author receives a fixed amount to cover accommodation expenses, free Congress registration and two Postgraduate Courses.
  

In addition, the ERS is pleased to support young scientists attending the ERS Annual Congress. The ERS Young Scientist Sponsorship is intended for young scientists, from all countries, who are nonmedical doctors, and who would not normally receive support from pharmaceutical companies to attend the Congress.

Grants of € 600 intended to cover travel and accommodation, in addition to free registration to the Barcelona Congress, are granted to a limited number of presenting authors of the selected abstracts.

Applicants for ERS Young Scientist Sponsorship should be aged 35 years or under on 18 September 2010 and hold a PhD with no medical degree. Application must be made on the electronic abstract submission form.

ERS sponsorship will be granted to the authors of the best abstracts based on the reviewers’ scores and comments. Candidates will be informed of the Scientific Committee’s decision in May 2010.

Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)

COFUND offers funding to existing or new regional, national and international fellowship programmes for research training and career development.

More information:  COFUND flyer

Submit your proposals for 2011

The second round of symposia proposal is open.

You can submit your proposals until 29 August 2010 using the form: Symposium Submission Form.