EPOS–POSNA Travelling Fellows 2025

Summer's over, but is it? It's never over.

There's always something that happens at EPOS, and we are very much fortunate that we've hopefully had a restful summer.

August is done.

Now is the start of September.

School starts, you know, you get kids excited, they pack up their bags, school uniform.

And if we're talking about school and education here at EPOS, we talk about, uh, traveling fellowships.

And if you're a member of EPOS, you will definitely have received email from EPOS in the newsletter of September mentioning the fact that EPOS Traveling Fellowship application has started.

And I urge all young applicants to check out the requirements for the EPOS, um, two thousand and twenty-seven Traveling Fellowship to check out the requirements, the CVs, and everything they need to know in order to apply.

And being fortunate to have received the EPOS, uh, Traveling Fellowship in twenty-twenty-four to Latin America, I wanted to dedicate a little bit of time for this year's fellowship applicants and also for last year fellowship applicants, which, uh, we're very fortunate to go to North America, to POSNA, and to visit some fabulous centers across, uh, the US and, and not only to check out, uh, the POSNA meeting in Las, Las Vegas.

And, uh, we were very grateful that, uh, fellows from two thousand and twenty-five POSNA Traveling Fellowship, uh, decided to join us today.

Um, we got Ali from Turkey and Marco from Switzerland, together with, uh, Ines, uh, who is the EPOS counselor and the person responsible for the Traveling Fellowship for receiving fellows across from POSNA and SLOOTI, but also facilitating and the hard work that is carried out for fellows like myself, Marco, Ali, et cetera, to go to places that are fantastic.

So we thank Ines.

Uh, it's, it's with immense gratitude, and I know how hard it is, and Ana Precedo before her, how hard this was to organize all of this and to make it a smooth travel for you guys.

So, uh, thank you so much and, uh, welcome.

Ines, a few words.

Would you like to tell us a little bit about, uh, the experience and what it takes and what, uh, organizing this fabulous event and how hard it is to our listeners tonight?