Working with the Union of National European Pediatric Societies and Associations in "Building Bridges Across Europe": The Eighth EUROPAEDIATRICS, Bucharest, Romania, June 7-10, 2017.

The eighth EUROPAEDIATRICS, the biannual international congress of the European Paediatric Association, Union of European Paediatric Societies and Associations (EPA/UNEPSA), will take place June 7-10, 2017, in Bucharest, Romania. It will be supported by 49 leading national pediatric societies and associations that are members of EPA/UNEPSA. In recent years, Europe and the entire world have experienced unprecedented economic and social changes that have affected health care services in many countries. The general perspectives that were foreseen at the beginning of the newmillennium had to be remodeled to adapt to these new conditions. Pediatric science and health care in Europe and in the rest of the world underwent similar processes. A different world requires new approaches to and strategies for pediatric science and practice. EUROPAEDIATRICS 2017 provides an opportunity to continue assessing and updating the status of pediatric science and health care in Europe, thus making its countries ready to meet new and often unexpected challenges. In fact, EPA/UNEPSA strongly believes that the eighth EUROPAEDIATRICS will offer a safe place and a sound scientific and ethical basis for discussing new perspectives in various areas of pediatrics, including education, health care, and policy. EUROPAEDIATRICS reflects the main objective of EPA/ UNEPSA to encourage scientific cooperation between the leading not-for-profit national pediatric societies/associations and European pediatricians working in primary, secondary, and tertiary pediatric care to promote child health and comprehensive pediatric care and to strengthen international social responsibility.