.:: 2009

	December 16, 2009 BBMRI meeting "From Biobanks to Expert Centers" Paris, France December 13-16, 2009 XVIII WFN World Congress on Parkinson's Disease and Related Disorders Miami FL, USA December 1-2, 2009 BBMRI Prototype meeting Munich, Germany November 17–19, 2009 TREAT-NMD/NIH international conference "Bringing Down the Barriers" Brussels, Belgium November 16-17, 2009 TREAT-NMD Governing Board Brussels, Belgium October 29, 2009 Eurobiomed Rare Diseases Symposium Montpellier, France September 17-20, 2009 39th Annual General Meeting EAMDA (European Alliance of Neuromuscular Disorders Associations) Belgrade, Serbia September 16, 2009 Meeting of the Stakeholders Forum "Coordination of European Biobanks" Brussels, Belgium September 7-8, 2009 TREAT-NMD Curators’ Meeting Montpellier, France June 25, 2009 Launch of a new Biological Ressources Platform (GIE Neuro-CEB), Pitié- Salpêtrière hospital Paris, France June 20-24, 2009 19th Meeting of the European Neurological Society (ENS) Milan, Italy June 15-17, 2009 TREAT-NMD Governing Board meeting Paris, France May 14-17, 2009 8th Balkan Meeting on Human Genetics Cavtat, Croatia April 2-3, 2009 EuroBioBank Network /TREAT-NMD Annual Meeting Paris, France March 25th, 2009 BBMRI Joint Meeting of the BBMRI Participants and Associated Members and BBMRI Governance Council Meeting Brussels, Belgium March 20th, 2009 BBMRI 1st Stakeholder Forum Meeting Brussels, Belgium February 4-5, 2009 Training Course on Standards of Care for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Budapest, Hungary February 2-4, 2009 TREAT-NMD Governing Board meeting Budapest, Hungary

.:: 2008

	< December 17-18, 2008 BBMRI Meeting of WP3 (disease-related biobanks) Munich, Germany November 20-21, 2008 Networking Meeting for EU-funded biobanking projects Brussels, Belgium November 16-18, 2008 International Symposium on Rare Diseases-Inherited Neuromuscular Diseases Valencia, Spain September 29- October 02, 2008 13th International Meeting of the World Muscle Society (WMS) Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK September 11-14, 2008 38th Annual General Meeting EAMDA (European Alliance of Neuromuscular Disorders Associations) Sofia, Bulgaria June 25-27, 2008 TREAT-NMD Governing Board meeting Newcastle upon Tyne, UK May 5-6, 2008 EuroBioBank Network /TREAT-NMD Annual Meeting Paris, France April 17-18, 2008 BBMRI Joint Meeting of Associated Organisations and Partners Florence, Italy

.:: 2007

	27-28 November 2007 The biennial European Conference on Rare Diseases, organised by Eurordis and its partners,under the patronage of the Portuguese Ministry of Health, in the context of the Portuguese EU Council Presidency and supported by the European Commission, was well-attended by over 400 participants. The Marriot Hotel, Lisbon (Portugual) 28 September 2007 Organised by INSERM, the "6ème Colloque du Réseau de Biobanques" addressed genetic epidemiology, in particular scientific strategies and challenges, as well as international prospects for networks of biobanks. Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris (France) 13 September 2007 In the context of the 7th Framework Programme (FP7, 2007-2013), the DG Research of the European Commission organised the conference "Rare Diseases: Building on Success". Brussels, Belgium 14-15 September 2007 The ICORD 2007 Annual Meeting - International Conference on Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs -was also held in Brussels following the EC conference Brussels, Belgium June 16-19, 2007 European Human Genetics Conference 2007 Nice (France) May 10-11, 2007 5th EuroBioBank Network Annual Meeting Hôpital Broussais, Plateforme Maladies Rares Paris, France May 4-5, 2007 Eurordis Annual Membership Meeting & & European Workshop Gaining Access to Rare Disease Research Resources On the occasion of Eurordis? 10-Year Anniversary Paris, France March 17, 2007 Partner and Stakeholder Meeting European Research Infrastructure Bio-Banking and Biomolecular Resources Vienna, Austria March 8, 2007 German (national) biobanking meeting on BBMRI-ESFRI GSF research institute, Munich, Germany January 22, 2007 German (national) biobanking meeting on ESFRI German ministry of education and research Berlin, Germany January 18-19, 2007 Kick-off meeting of the TREAT-NMD project Génocentre - Evry, France January 15-17, 2007 AFM workshop: Overcoming bottlenecks in the development of therapeutics for rare neuromuscular disorders Génocentre - Evry, France

.:: 2006

	October 25-27, 2006 EuroBIO 2006 Tenth European Biotech Crossroads Palais des Congrès, Porte Maillot, Paris, France June 19, 2006, 2006 Biobank Governance in Comparative Perspective: Strategies - Ethics - Resistance Organised by the Life Science Governance Research Platform, University of Vienna. Vienna, Austria May 24-26, 2006 6th National Congress of the Italian Association of Myology Rome, Italy May 12, 2006 Biobanks in Europe: Prospects For Coordination and Networking Organised by the IPTS/ESTO teams of the EC Joint Research Centre. Sevilla, Spain May 7-8, 2006 Data and Biobanking for Research European Genetic Alliances Network and European Platform Patient Organisations, Science and Industry, organised a conference at which EBB was invited to speak Amsterdam RAI, The Netherlands March 16-17, 2006 EuroBioBank Annual Network Meeting Eurordis, Hôpital Broussais, Paris (France) January 20, 2006 Biobanks in Europe A 2d workshop to explore in greater depth key issues on future biobanks networking. EBB was asked to contribute as an expert Organised by the IPTS/ESTO teams Sevilla, Spain

.:: 2005

	May 26-27, 2005 EuroBioBank Network Annual Meeting Paris, France January 28-31, 2005 Conference on BIOBANK - ESH (European School of Haematology) - "First ESH-EBMT Euroconference on biobanking" Dublin (Ireland.)

.:: 2004

	October 17-20, 2004 International Society for Biological and Environmental Biorepositories - ISBER 2004 Annual Meeting "Biorepositories in Clinical and Basic Research", University of Perugia Perugia (Italy) 22 October 2004 EuroBioBank, represented by Dr Jaeger and Ms Bodin, received the Newropeans Grand Prix 2004 in the category "Mobility- Research and Technology" at an award ceremony in Paris. The whole network was rewarded for promoting rare disease research in Europe Paris (France) June 12-15, 2004 European Human Genetics Conference 2004, European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) Munich (Germany) May 26th, 2004 Hungarian Health Ministry Meeting on scientific projects financed by the EC Budapest (Hungary) March 31st, April 1-2, 2004 EuroBioBank Annual Meeting Paris (France) February 18-21, 2004 2nd International Congress on Orphan Drugs and Rare Diseases Sevilla (Spain)

.:: 2003

	October 16-17, 2003 Paris 2003 - 2nd European Conference on Rare Disorders & Disabilities Evry (France) September 3-5, 2003 8th International Congress of World Muscle Society (WMS) Szeged (Hungary) July 4th, 2003 Symposium on Genetics Biobanks, Italian Society of Human Genetics Genova(Italy) March 27-28, 2003 EuroBioBank Annual Meeting Paris (France)