Sean McAteer EPSA President 25th EPSA Congress Zagreb, 2002

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Develop the interests and opinions of European pharmacy students and encourages contact and co-operation between them Permanent contact and exchange of information for and between Pharmacy Students Sean McAteer EPSA President 25th EPSA Congress Zagreb, 2002 Development of a consensus of opinion on the Pharmaceutical Education and other relevant issues and present them to the professional organisations Organisation of activities to increase the profile of pharmacy students and the profession

Sean McAteer EPSA President 25th EPSA Congress Zagreb, 2002 August Edinburgh, Scotland -European delegates meeting at the Congress of the ANEPF -European Sub committee of IPSF EPSA History January 1982 – Became Independent of IPSF - European Pharmaceutical Students’ Committee -Registered in Strasbourg, Tribunal d’lllkirch April 1993 – European Pharmaceutical Students’ Association

Sean McAteer EPSA President 25th EPSA Congress Zagreb, 2002 EPSA Structure 8 Executive members + 1 permanent officer 5 Sub - Committees (Education, Mobility, Promotion & Support, Financial Publications, 4 members on each Sub-C) Liaison Secretaries (1 per member) General Assembly Pharmacy Students

Sean McAteer EPSA President 25th EPSA Congress Zagreb, 2002 EPSA Structure

Sean McAteer EPSA President 25th EPSA Congress Zagreb, 2002 EPSA Membership Represent over 120,000 pharmacy students in 33 European countries 30 Ordinary Members -Speaking and voting rights in the General Assembly -One per member country 8 Associate Members - Speaking rights in the General Assembly Individual Members

Sean McAteer EPSA President 25th EPSA Congress Zagreb, 2002 EPSA Publications Newsletter - produced three times a year. -Available on the EPSA Homepage Report Booklet -Results of the Annual Questionnaire (2001 results will additionally be published in the journal “Pharmacy Education”) -Statements of Opinion from the workshops included in booklet

Sean McAteer EPSA President 25th EPSA Congress Zagreb, 2002 EPSA Publications EPSA/IPSF Joint Document - Pharmacy Education – “A Vision of the Future” EPSA’s “Basic Principles on Pharmacy Education” EPSA Homepage EPSA Promotional Leaflet EPSA Questionnaire - Topic: 2001/02 “Pharmacoeconomics”

Sean McAteer EPSA President 25th EPSA Congress Zagreb, 2002 EPSA Projects Permanent Office -Cooperation with the European Society of Clinical Pharmacy - Awarded 2001 Healthbase foundation award for for research work. Pharmacy World Project Pharmaceutical Sciences in EPSA - Cooperation with EUFEPS with the Scientific supplement. -Provides pharmacy students the opportunity to publish research. Guidelines for Health Awareness Campaigns

Sean McAteer EPSA President 25th EPSA Congress Zagreb, 2002 EPSA Projects Drug Awareness Project - To educate European pharmacy students to a high degree of expertise about the misuse and abuse of drugs -To improve awareness of the facts surrounding drugs misuse and abuse in target group of years old

Sean McAteer EPSA President 25th EPSA Congress Zagreb, 2002 EPSA Projects EUROMOB (4 elements) 1. Educational mobility - Euromob Exchange Project - Academic Exchange Program information (e.g. Erasmus) 2. Social-Educational Mobility - Annual Summer University - TWIN project

Sean McAteer EPSA President 25th EPSA Congress Zagreb, 2002 EPSA Projects 3. Sport Mobility - Annual EPSA Sailing Cup - Sport Twin (e.g. promote ANEPF Ski week) 4. Mobility Databases - Curriculum Databases across Europe (subjects taught & ECTS points) - Booklists (textbooks used in different European countries) - Mobility Exchange Program (MEP )

Sean McAteer EPSA President 25th EPSA Congress Zagreb, 2002 EPSA Events 25th EPSA Annual Congress -1st to 7th April 2002, in Zagreb, Croatia 4th EPSA/ESCP Students’ Symposium - 29th October 2002, Florence, Italy -Topic: “Innovation in Drug Therapy” FREE for students EPSA/IPSF Joint Symposium on Pharmacy Education - Currently opening bidding to host the 2nd Joint Symposium

Sean McAteer EPSA President 25th EPSA Congress Zagreb, 2002 EPSA Events 4th EPSA Sailing Cup th May leg International regatta - Kornati National Park archipelago - Croatia ANEPF (France) Ski week (promote) rd March 2002

Sean McAteer EPSA President 25th EPSA Congress Zagreb, 2002 EPSA Events 4th EPSA Summer University th July, Thessaloniki, Greece - Misuse of Drugs International Summer Camp th July, Dolenjska, Slovenia - “Back to Nature”. Topics include Homeopathy & Phytotherapy

Sean McAteer EPSA President 25th EPSA Congress Zagreb, 2002 Institutional Relations Consultative status with the Council of Europe Working with the European Association of the Faculties of Pharmacy (EAFP) on Euromob Exchange Project Working with the European Union of Students (ESIB) on the Bologna Declaration Working with the European Medical Students Association (EMSA) & European Dental Students Association for the Annual Congress & Summer University Wide range of other initiatives with other bodies including Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union (PGEU)

Sean McAteer EPSA President BPSA Annual Conference - Glasgow 2002 EPSA Institutional Relations WHO/EFP PGEU EAHP EAFP ESCP EUFEPS FIP E.U. C. of EuropeEMSA IFMSA EDSA ESIB IPSF

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