Globally expanding membership will increase effectiveness and enable the EAES to establish a higher standard of practice and training in Endoscopic Surgery.
Why join EAES
As a member of the EAES, you contribute to achieving our goals and objectives. Our strength and influence depend on the magnitude of our society and our substantive representation within your country. So your membership is crucial.
By joining the EAES you can continuously develop your profession and with it, the quality of surgical care to your patients.

Member benefits:
- A membership certificate officially issued by the EAES Executive Office.
- Access to the EAES member portal, which allows access to all EAES features, such as the EAES Academy, video library, eLearning, webinars, etc.
- EAES subscription to Surgical Endoscopy (electronic version), the official scientific journal of EAES, the first endoscopic journal which impact factor is at the level of the main surgical journals.
- Easy access to Innovative Surgical Trends, the second official journal of the EAES.
- Electronic access to the following journals:
- Annals of Surgical Oncology
- Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
- World Journal of Surgery
- Obesity Surgery
- The possibility to sign up for SpringerAlert, an innovative, free-of-charge service that notifies users via e-mail whenever new articles become electronically available, and automatically sends the table of contents and direct links to the abstracts
- The official EAES newsletter which aims at distributing all information in the field of surgical endoscopy in the broadest sense. Its regular appearance ensures the prompt exchange of news, concerning latest developments and events.
- Participation to the EAES congress, each year in a different European city, at a reduced registration fee. These congresses are the best opportunity to evaluate the procedures according to the experience of reference centres and to assess guidelines of endoscopic surgery thanks to specific programmes, with accredited teaching activities and continuous medical education programmes. The highest level of dissemination of endoscopic surgery research, technological development and clinical progress and practice is developed. Every so many years, EAES organises the IFSES World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery for which reduced fees also apply.
- Participation to the EAES Symposium on Innovation in Surgery each year in Europe at a reduced registration fee. This 3-day event is specifically designed to learn more about the latest trends in minimally invasive surgery.
- Participation to the postgraduate courses of the EAES, organised each year during the congress, at a reduced registration fee, corresponding to a continuous medical education programme.
- Participation to the EAES accredited endoscopic surgery meetings, symposia and workshops if applicable, at a reduced registration fee. Many experts in different countries are organising these activities, which have to be supported by the scientific and educational committees of the society.
- Application for participation in the EAES fellowship programme, consisting of a two months training programme in major minimal invasive centres, located in Europe.
- Application for EAES Research grants up to €15,000 per project.
- Travel grants, awards and prizes in association with the EAES congress and postgraduate activities of the EAES.
- Possibility to participate in scientific activities by applying for membership in the various EAES committees.
General Data Protection Policy
Your privacy comes first at EAES. We now meet the high standard for data privacy introduced by the new European data protection law known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into effect later in May. EAES members around the world will benefit from any of these changes because their personal data will be protected. To learn more, check out our General Data Protection Policy.
