Young ECCO

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Young ECCO
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General features

• YECCO is a group of regular ECCO members under 35
  of age
• YECCO counts 184 members from 31 European
  countries Israel
• Two Chairs, elected by YECCO members for a term
  of 2 years, coordinate all activities.
• Both the ECCO Scientific and ECCO Education
  Committee choose a YECCO representative

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Aims of YECCO

• To support friendship and collaboration between
  young clinicians and young investigators in IBD
  throughout Europe.
• To participate in educational activities of ECCO
  (IBD courses, workshops, exchange programs, )
• To encourage multicentre studies driven by young
  investigators.

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Achievements and activities of YECCO

• Inclusion of YECCO in the ECCO statutes
• Active participation in ECCO committees
• One multicentre research project driven by a
  YECCO member (to be concluded in October 2008)
• YECCO workshop (Presentation Skills)
• ECCO travel awards (1500 Euro to spend up to
  three months in a foreign ECCO centre to learn a
  specific technique or act as a clinical observer)

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Achievements and activities of YECCO

• Co-chairmanship in scientific sessions of ECCO
  Congresses
• Participation in ECCO IBD School
• One page in the ECCO Newsletter
• YECCO page on the ECCO website

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Future Scientific activities

• 2008-2009
• Proposals for new multicentre projects
• Contribution of YECCO members to IBDIS validation
  project
• Co-chairmanship in ECCO Congress 2009
• New applications for Travel Awards (deadline
  October 1)

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Future Educational Activities

• Involvement of YECCO members in ECCO IBD School
• 2nd YECCO Workshop (4th February 2009)
• ECCO postgraduate school starting from 2010

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Contacts

• To apply for YECCO or to get further information
• youngecco_at_yahoo.com
• YECCO link www.ecco-ibd.eu

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• All contributions and all ideas are more than
  welcome!
• Come on and join YECCO!