President Message

9th December 202113th December 2021

Dear friends.

The conference which we are going to have in Garda has been postponed a few times as you all know. As the EOA nominations officer is on the verge of sending out the necessary information about who are running for a place on the EC it is only appropriate to reveal the new date for the conference. Please be prepared for April 6th – 10th of 2022 and let us hope that we don’t need further delays and that we can meet in Garda in Northern Italy and have a very good and joyful conference. I know that our colleagues in FAIS are very much looking forward to hosting a great meeting of us all.

8th February 20218th February 2021

President Message

Hopefuly we can all be busy on ostomate matters!

Dear friends.

Now that we are hopefully seeing the final chapter of the Covid 19 pandemic I think it is time for us to take a look at what has been done recently and what lies ahead of us.

22nd December 202022nd December 2020

President Message

Hafnarfjordur Iceland, December 20th.2020.

Dear friends.

Do you remember the presidential message from March this year, where we announced that the new date for our EOA Conference would be in April 2021? It became obvious very soon that this date could not be kept. So in a new message from June 2020 the EOA-EC asked EOA members which new time for the conference they would prefer in 2021: spring or autumn. And the majority chose the later possibility: autumn 2021. Following your opinion the EOA-EC and our partner in Italy, FAIS, have chosen a new date, starting in the evening of Wednesday the 27th of October and ending Saturday the 30th 2021. Hopefully WE WILL ALL BE THERE!

29th June 202029th June 2020

Vice-President Message

Maria Hass: I have met Di several times at IOA Congresses, it was always a pleasure to meet her. Also other members of the current EOA EC have met her during congresses. Di was a very kind and polite person but also very clear in what she said. She was so lively and she was deeply interested in the wellbeing of ostomates all over the world.

EOA EC is very sorry about her death and the loss for the ostomates’ community.

Link: Dielwen E. Bracken

4th June 20204th June 2020

President Message

The start of the – hopefully – end of COVID19

Dear friends.

It has been far more pleasureable to think about writing this message than the last one from March this year. Now that most countries are longing for the end of this epidemic that has more or less paralyzed our societies we need to take a deep breath and analyze the situation that we are in. We have all lost a few months of invaluable work and connections with our members have been somewhat strange. The computer and web have been growing in this context for the past years but suddenly they take over almost completely. No meetings and no close personal conversations have been possible in the past months. Hopefully all of us have been able to rise up to those challenges and provide service and consultations as close to requirements as possible.

10th March 202010th March 2020

President Message

EOA Conference 2020 / 2021 in Italy

Dear friends.

Do you remember the title from the president‘s message of January last? It was: „Please be there.“ Now it is very clear that we can‘t be in Garda in April as we had planned and prepared. The virus that has been plaguing the world has made it inevitable to postpone the EOA conference in Garda. That is a joint decision of the EOA-EC and FAIS. The vote of members has decided that the EOA conference will take place in April next year. The result was very clear, 19 out of 27 that voted decided on that.

28th January 202028th January 2020

President Message

Dear friends.

Finally preparations for the conference in Garda are almost over. We have had some last minute problems but they have been dealt with and are over. The registration forms for the conference and for the hotel will be sent to you shortly and are also available at the EOA website. I know that I speak for both the EOA EC and FAIS when I say that we hope to see as many of you there as possible.

12th August 201912th August 2019

President Message

Save the date: EOA Conference 2020 in Italy

Dear friends.

I hope that all of you have had a nice summer so far and a good vacation. But I am very pleased to ask all of you to set aside the dates of 15-19 of April 2020. These are the dates for the next EOA conference which will be held at Garda, about 35 km from the city of Verona in northern Italy. The board of the Italian Ostomy Association FAIS has begun preparations for the conference and me and more members of the EOA-EC will meet with them in October for more planning. I look very much forward to see as many of you in April 2020 in Italy. Further information on this important conference will be published on the EOA website in time.

23rd February 201828th February 2018

President Message

Dear friends.

When we were together in Copenhagen last year there was a lot of discussion about EOA talking with European Union authorities in Brussels and even more large organizations such as the Red Cross and World Health Organization. We in EOA made ourselves visible at an Open Day in the Parliament of EU in Brussels at the beginning of December 2017. Two delegates from EOA were invited to take part in discussions there and they made EOA both seen and heard with a few questions that the EOA-EC together had prepared in advance. So far nothing concrete has come from this effort but we plan to try to do this again. If we go there often enough perhaps we will be heard in the end. If any of our member organizations have the possibility to get invited to this event they should perhaps try for that. The more in numbers we are there, the louder we can be. Continue reading “President Message”

9th November 20179th November 2017

President Message

Dear friends,

Now it is about a month since we departed in Copenhagen after a short but very fruitful conference. We had quite a few interesting lectures, we had talks and a few laughs. When we can laugh together we know that we are among friends. I thank all those that came to Copenhagen and to those that weren’t able to come I can only say that I hope to see them on our next conference in Italy.

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