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ERS Congress 2025 – Amsterdam
2025-09-27 08:00 - 2025-10-01 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Amsterdam
The ERS Congress 2025 will be held in Amsterdam on September 27–October 1, 2025.
This year’s ERS Congress will feature 400 scientific and educational sessions covering all areas of respiratory health and medicine, including content for all specialty areas, hot topics and major disease areas, sessions dedicated to early-career professionals, and sessions related to this year’s Congress theme, “Respiratory Health Around the World.”
Early registration for the ERS Congress 2025 closes in less than a month!
Register by 11:59 PM CEST on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, to benefit from significantly discounted rates. Joint members of SIMRI and ERS are eligible for discounted member-only rates.
Registration for the ERS Congress is available HERE

World Lung Day 2025
2025-09-25 08:00 - 17:00
Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS)FIRS is dedicated to helping create a world where everyone has the right to Clean Air and Healthy Lungs. Join over 250 FIRS members and World Lung Day partners to raise awareness of lung health for World Lung Day, 25 September.
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Virtual International Pediatric Pulmonology Research Academy - VIPPRA
2025-09-01 08:00 - 2025-09-17 17:00
Application Link: : https://thoracic.secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/292/home
What is VIPPRA
VIPRA is aimed to be an interactive virtual course to assist international pediatric pulmonology fellows and early career researchers with interest in pediatric lung health to learn and apply scientific research methods.
Participants will learn the fundamentals of developing a research question, various scientific study designs, the basic elements of manual of procedures and develop basic bio-statistical skills.
This interactive course is planned to have two major components;

online seminars by faculty on research methods every two weeks—the syllabus of this seminar program is attached as a table at the end of the document. These seminars will be interactive and students will be sent reading materials before the seminar day. These seminars will be held through zoom platform.
hands-on work with a mentor to develop a research protocol and manual of procedures that is ready to be submitted for institutional review board approval. Mentor-mentee pairs are expected to contact each other at least once between the two online seminar times either by email or through zoom to complete the part of the protocol covered by the seminar.

Target Population and Participants
The target population of this program is international pediatric pulmonology fellows or early career researchers with interest in pediatric lung health who would like to embark on or improve scientific research skills in the field of pediatric pulmonology
The program will be announced through ATS Pediatric Assembly members, and the applicants will be asked to submit their CV and expectations from this program as well as their research interests. CVs and personal statements of each applicant will be reviewed by the VIPPRA faculty and final participant list will be decided according to these evaluations.

Mentoring
Two participants will be allocated to each faculty considering their research interests. If we have more than expected number of applicants, applicants from low-middle income countries will be prioritized.

Competencies of VIPPRA

Understand the basics of epidemiology and clinical research
Become familiar with the major scientific research methods (cross-sectional, case-control, cohort, and clinical trial)
Be able to turn clinical observations into research questions to address the issue.
Be able to pose a research questions that fulfills the FINER criteria and identify the best study design that can be used to answer that question
Define study population and sampling methodology
Understand sample size and power calculations
Describe the importance of valid and reliable measurements and quality control methods
Describe the major elements of a Manual of Procedures (MOP)
Value the Importance of ethical conduct of human research
Understand the use of “dummy tables” before starting data collection.
Understand data structure and the influence of non-normally distributed data sets.
Summarize continuous and categorical data
Understand prevalence, incidence rate, cumulative incidence, odds, and their ratios
Understand bias, confounding, Type I and Type 2 errors, standard error and confidence intervals
Differentiate t-test and ANOVA; Wilcoxon and Kruskall- Wallis; chi-squared
Understand general concepts of logistic regression and linear regression and when repeated measures tests are required.
Basics of how to write and structure your manuscript

Expectation from the Faculty

Prepare to give interactive online seminars about research methods to the group of pediatric pulmonologists enrolled in the program
Provide reading material to the participants before giving the seminar they are assigned to.
Mentor 2 participants online throughout the course while developing their project proposal and MOP

Expectations from the Participants

Complete pre-seminar readings
Participate fully in all course activities; pre-seminar readings, interactive seminar time, individual work on Project
Fully engage in preparing and presenting your research protocol and MOP at scheduled meetings and at the conclusion of the course.
Complete the final research protocol ready to be submitted for IRB approval.

3° Congress INSPIRED - International Society of Pediatric Respiratory Disease. Barcellona, 26-29 giugno 2025
2025-06-26 08:00 - 2025-06-29 17:00 | Barcellona
The 3rd INSPIRED – International Society of Pediatric Respiratory Disease Congress will be held in Barcelona on 26-29 June 2025.
Researchers, clinicians and healthcare professionals are invited to submit their abstracts to be considered and contribute to the future of pediatric respiratory care, gain recognition and network with experts in the field.
For more information visit the website
