Dear Colleagues,

The Union of European Neonatal and Perinatal Societies (UENPS) founded July 1, 2006, in Vienna and registered in Roma April 17, 2008 , is an organisation integrating the national european societies of neonatal or perinatal medicine. It represents countries and governing bodies of each national society. So it is not a “new” society in Europe but “the” Society of the European Societies, understood as integration of all societies and not for the single members of the community. Its feeling is to concentrate in a single organization all of the European Neonatal and Perinatal Societies.

The main goals of UENPS are to improve healthcare quality in perinatal and neonatal medicine in the European countries by integrating, coordinating and adding national and scientific society’s efforts.

Our dream is to achieve a common management of the mother and the newborn to accomplish their rights and to provide them the best care independently where they live.

We want to improve the knowledge of perinatal indicators and to develop recommendations, guidelines, training of the healthcare givers and other tools to achieve the best healthcare for all newborn babies. 

To promote exchange information in healthcare, training and scientific we propose to organize, every two years, in collaboration with the hosting local society the European Congress – Global Neonatology and Perinatology and also to give scientific support to local workshops about specific topics according the national societies.  

The 1st Congress of UENPS took place in Roma, November 2008, with 1032 participants. The 2nd and 3rd Congresses will be held respectively in Istanbul (2010) and Porto (2012). 

UENPS has some specificity offering not only scientific activities but helping the European Community about standards of Neonatal and Perinatal Care and rights of the newborns in our countries.

We will collaborate in the fields of education, research, guidelines to improve quality in perinatal assistance (better practices) with all European and International Societies of Neonatology and Perinatology.

EuroNeoNet and EFCNI (European Foundation for Care of the Newborn Infant) are recent partner societies or Scientific Associate Members of UENPS.

As UENPS president until 2010, and on the behalf of the Executive Committee, I would like to ask all UENPS members your collaboration to achieve our aims.

UENPS needs you.

Thank you very much,