Annual ESPID Meetings

2025

43rd Annual ESPID Meeting
May, Bucharest, Romania
Theme: TBA
Local organisers: Oana Falup-Pecurariu
More information will be available in due course

2024

42nd Annual ESPID Meeting
May 19 - 24, Tel Aviv, Israel
Theme: Advances in Paediatric Infectious Diseases
Local organisers: Ilan Youngster / Dana Danino / Ron Dagan
More information will be available in due course

2023

May 8 - 12, Lisbon, Portugal (hybrid)
Theme: Advances in Paediatric Infectious Diseases
Local organisers: Fernanda Rodrigues / Catarina Gouveia 
More information will be available here in the Autumn of 2022.

2022

May 9 - 13, Athens, Greece (hybrid)
Theme: Advances in Paediatric Infectious Diseases
Local organisers: Maria Tsolia / Emmanouil Galanakis / Theo Zaoutis
Webcasts are available for registrants only, for a limited period of time (around 3 months),  immediately after the annual meeting has taken place.

 
 

2021

May 24 - 28,  Geneva, Switzerland (virtual)
Theme: Advances in Paediatric Infectious Diseases
Local organisers:Nicole Ritz / Ulrich Heininger / Klara Posfay Barbe
Webcasts are available for registrants only, for a limited period of time (around 3 months),  immediately after the annual meeting has taken place.
 
 

2020

October 26 - 29,  Rotterdam, The Netherlands (virtual)
Theme: Advances in Paediatric Infectious Diseases
Local organisers:Annemarie van Rossum/Pieter Fraaij
Webcasts are available for registrants only, for a limited period of time (around 3 months),  immediately after the annual meeting has taken place.

 

2019

 
37th Annual ESPID Meeting
May 6 - 11, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Theme: Advances in Paediatric Infectious Diseases
Local organisers:Goran Tešović/Marko Pokorn
E-posters
 

2018

 
May 28 - June 2, Malmo, Sweden
Theme: Advances in Paediatric Infectious Diseases
Local organisers: Olof Herrting/Lise Jensen
E-posters
 

2017

 
May 23-27, Madrid, Spain
Theme: Advances in Paediatric Infectious Diseases
Local organisers: Pablo Rojo/Jesus Saavedra-Lozano
E-Posters
 

2016

34th Annual ESPID Meeting
May 10-14, Brighton, UK
Theme: Advances in Paediatric Infectious Diseases
Local organisers: Adam Finn/Saul Faust
Abstracts
E-posters
Webcast sessions
ESPID 2016 Library

2015

33rd Annual ESPID Meeting
May 12-16, Leipzig, Germany
Theme: Advances in Paediatric Infectious Diseases
Local organisers: Michael Borte/Volker Schuster
Abstracts
E-posters
Webcast sessions

2014

32nd Annual ESPID Meeting
May 12-15, Dublin, Ireland
Theme: Advances in Paediatric Infectious Diseases
Local organiser: Karina Butler
Abstracts
E-posters
Webcast sessions 

2013

31th Annual ESPID Meeting
May 28 - June 1, Milan, Italy
Theme: Advances in Paediatric Infectious Diseases
Local organiser: Susanna Esposito
Abstracts
E-posters
Webcast sessions
Photo gallery

2012

30th Annual ESPID Meeting
May 8-12, Thessaloniki, Greece
Theme: Advances in Paediatric Infectious Diseases
Local organiser: Emmanuel Roilides
Abstracts

2011

29th Annual ESPID Meeting 
June 7-11, The Hague, The Netherlands
Theme: Frontiers in Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Local organiser: Ronald de Groot
Abstracts

2010

28th Annual ESPID Meeting 
May 4-8, Nice, France
Theme: Immunization in special circumstances: from guidelines to practice
Local organiser: Robet Cohen
Abstracts

2009

27th Annual ESPID Meeting
June 9-13, Brussels, Belgium
Theme: Serious bacterial infections
Local organiser: Phillip Lepage
Abstracts

2008

26th Annual ESPID Meeting
May 13-17, Graz, Austria
Theme: Viral Infections
Local organiser: Werner Zenz
 

2007

25th Annual ESPID Meeting
May 2-4, Porto, Portugal
Theme: Infection and Immunity
Local organiser: Graca Rocha
 

2006

24th Annual ESPID Meeting
May 3-5, Basel, Switzerland
Theme: Bacterial Infections
Local organiser: Ulrich Heininger

2005

23rd Annual ESPID Meeting
May 18-20, Valencia, Spain
Theme: Vaccines
Local organiser: Javier Diez-Domingo

2004

22nd Annual ESPID Meeting
May 26-28, Tampere, Finland
Theme: Viral infections in children. Viral vaccines
Local organiser: Timo Vesikari

2003

21st Annual ESPID Meeting
April 9-11, Giardini Naxos, Taorina, Sicily
Theme: Role of atypical organisms in the paediatric age.Immigration and infections
Local organiser: Antonio Boccazzi

2002

20th Annual ESPID Meeting
May 29-31, Vilnuis, Lithuania
Theme: Gut and liver: Infection and immunity
Local organiser: Vytautas Usonis

2001

19th Annual ESPID Meeting
March 26-28, Istanbul, Turkey
Theme: Epidemiology of vaccine. Preventable diseases
Local organiser: Ron Dagan
 

2000

18th Annual ESPID Meeting
Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Theme: Neonatal infections. Antimicrobial practice
Local organiser: Jan Kimpen

1999

17th Annual ESPID Meeting
Heraklion, Greece
Theme: Respiratory tract infections
Local organiser: George Syrogiannopoulos

1998

16th Annual ESPID Meeting
Bled, Slovenia
Theme: Meningococcal infections. Tick-borne infections. Advances in antibiotic treatment
Local organiser: Milan Cizman

1997

15th Annual ESPID Meeting
Paris, France
Theme: Antibiotic resistance. Markers of infection
Local organiser: Dominique Gendrel

1996

14th Annual ESPID Meeting
Elsinore, Denmark
Theme: Viral infections in children including HIV
Local organiser: Niels Valerius

1995

13th Annual ESPID Meeting
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Theme: Gastrointestinal infections
Local organiser: Michael Tarlow

1994

12th Annual ESPID Meeting
Budapest, Hungary
Theme: Infections in immunocompromised patients
Local organiser: Laszlo Timar 

1993

11th Annual ESPID Meeting
Helsinki, Finland
Theme: Respiratory infections
Local organiser: Juhani Eskola

1992

10th Annual ESPID Meeting
Dresden, Germany
Local organiser: Horst Köditz

1991

9th Annual ESPID Meeting
Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain
Local organiser: Francesco Asensi-Botet

1990

8th Annual ESPID Meeting
Göteborg, Sweden
Local organiser: Birger Trollfors 

1989

7th Annual ESPID Meeting
Lemmer, The Netherlands
Local organiser: Mieke Hoogkamp-Korstanje

1988

6th Annual ESPID Meeting
Padova, Italy
Local organiser: Ruggiero D’Elia 

1987

5th Annual ESPID Meeting
Paris, France
Local organiser: Yannick Aujard
 

1986

4th Annual ESPID Meeting
Athens, Greece
Local organiser: Dimitris Kafetzis

1985

3rd Annual ESPID Meeting
Munich, Germany
Local organiser: Heikki Peltola 

1984

2nd Annual ESPID Meeting
Interlaken, Switzerland
Local organiser: Urs Schaad

1983

1st Annual ESPID Meeting
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Local organiser: Walter Marget