This Congress is the result of the collaboration of three countries: Austria, Croatia and Slovenia. All three neighbouring countries are small in size, but great in shared history, architecture, art, music, landscape beauty, delicious national specialties, and – most importantly – people. We believe that this common abundance of history, culture and science is a guarantee that the ESPEN Congress 2022 will be an outstanding congress in an unforgettable setting.

With this international collaboration, we have developed a program that will continue with the past traditions of innovation and improvement of nutritional care and education of all professions involved in the field of nutrition and metabolism. We encourage all of you to actively participate and exchange your valuable experience – curiosity isn't just a way of understanding the world, it is a way of changing it.

Topics of the programme:

Scientific

• Plenary: Cuthbertson lecture and Wretlind Lecture

• 2 ESPEN Fellowships symposia, 1 Clinical Nutrition symposium

• Best abstracts session

• 8 Oral Communications sessions

• Nutrition Day: Current challenge in clinical practice?

17 Scientific Symposia

• Intestinal barrier and failure

• Revisiting the gastro-intestinal tract

• Nutrition and microbiome

• Nutrition to slow progression of kidney disease

• How to fill in the dietary fiber gap?

• Inflammation and nutrition (acute and chronic illness)

• Compromised gut in acute illness

• Nutrition and infectious diseases

• (Epi)genetics, nutrition, and health

• Autophagy and Nutrition

• Oral Health, nutrition, and systemic diseases

• Food systems, eating habits and health

• New targets for obesity therapy

• Obesity, psychology, and brain function

• Malnutrition in children

• Vegetables and animal sources of nutrients

• Interventions to support cancer care

Educational

• LLL Courses:
Friday 2 & Saturday 3 September:
15 LLL courses
During the congress: Two LLL Live courses and a T-LLL course

• 2 Case Presentations:
Management of a High Output Stoma
Management of Gastric Cancer

• ESPEN Guidelines

• GLIM Session

Educational Symposia

• GLIM criteria, obesity & treating sarcopenic obesity

• Eating disorders & food additions

• Home artificial nutrition

• Chronic disease, physical activity & sports nutrition

• Assessing the gut

• Parenteral nutrition

• Clinical nutrition in primary healthcare

• Nutrition and the immune system, COVID & Tuberculosis

• Gastric bypass

• Nutrition and cancer

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We sincerely hope to meet you in Vienna in 2022!