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• Fellowship Application
• Registration (on-site) live in Bertinoro
• Registration (virtual edition) for on demand review of the presentations
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The 6^th course in Hereditary Cancer Genetics is planned as a live conference in Bertinoro, Italy from September 22-25, 2026.

In addition, a virtual attendance will be possible as follows:

• Availability of pre-recorded talks of the morning sessions from Friday, October 27, 2026 to Sunday, January 31, 2027 for registered (virtual) participants.
• Participants registered for the virtual edition will receive access to the recordings via a dedicated link.

You can apply for the Felllowships offered by the European Society of Human Genetics.

The fellowship is including tuition, course material, lunches, coffee breaks, dinners, transportation to the course venue and back from the Bologna Airport and 3 nights accommodation in double rooms to be shared with another participant at the course venue or hotels nearby (if necessary) from September 22-25, 2026. 

Please note that other travel arrangements must be made individually - flights are not included in the registration fee.

For the application, you need to upload your cv, a reference and a motivation letter.

Deadline for applying April 30, 2026. 

You will receive the notification of acceptance (or no acceptance) by the middle of June.

Secure a guaranteed place:

If you would like to secure a guaranteed place in the course regardless of the outcome of your fellowship application, please make sure to register via the general registration link below. You may select bank transfer as your payment method and postpone the payment until you have been informed about the outcome of your fellowship application.

Without prior registration, we cannot guarantee a spot should your fellowship application not be successful.

Fellowship Application will open by April 1st, 2026.

Registration for live participation in Bertinoro

• Registration fee is euro 850,00 including tuition, course material, lunches, coffee breaks, dinners, transportation to the course venue to Bologna airport and back and 3 nights accommodation in double rooms to be shared with another participant at the course venue or hotels nearby (if necessary) from September 22-25, 2026. Please note that other travel arrangements must be made individually - flights are not included in the registration fee.
   
• A shuttle bus will leave from Bologna to Bertinoro at approx. 10.00 am on September 22 and at the end of the course on September 25.
   
• if you also applied for a fellowship: You may select bank transfer as your payment method and postpone the payment until you have been informed about the outcome of your fellowship application.
   

• Maximum number of admitted participant: 85.

• Participants are encouraged to present their research works as well as a clinical or genetic case in a poster format for on-site discussion.
• Prizes will be awarded for best presentations.
• Please send the abstract of your poster to rpartisani(at)ceub.it by September 1^st . The abstract should be a text  of 250 words, plus title, authors and affiliations.

Registration will open April 1st, 2026.

Registration Fee for virtual participation only

• EUR 60,-
• The access links to the virtual platform will be sent on Friday, October 27, 2026.
• Deadline for registration is December 1st, 2026.

The review of recorded talks will be possible for registered participants until January 31, 2027 at 23.59hrs CET.

Registration will open soon

Tuesday, September 22, 2026:

Basics in cancer genetics

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Tumor syndromes

Parallel specialised lectures

Thursday, September 24, 2026

Tumour syndromes

Basics in cancer genetics

Friday, September 25, 2026

Parallel specialized lectures

Basics in cancer genetics

Congress Office:
WMA GmbH
Ms. Magdalena Seidl
Alser Strasse 4
1090 Vienna, Austria
T: +43 1 405 13 83 24
F: +43 1 405 13 83 924
E:  courses(at)eshg.org