The ISBT Scientific Secretary in close collaboration with the Local Organizing Committee, will provide a broad range of topics in the scientific programme, thus offering you the opportunity to expand and update your knowledge in a number of basic, as well as currently prevailing items of education, research and globalization influence in modern transfusion medicine. Among the planned session, topics are:

• Donors and donation & demographic challenges

• Bridging the gap & migration

• Future therapies & therapeutic apheresis.