For a complete overview of the listed host institutions and their requirements:
– Host institutions list (PDF)
Host institution: Assuta Medical Center – Tel Aviv, Israel
- Director: Prof. Amir Szold
- Short description: A busy private practice in a large private hospital. High volume elective surgery and use of advanced technologies.
Host institution: Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana – Pisa, Italy
- Director: Prof. Luca Morelli
Host institution: Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico – Milan, Italy
- Director: Prof. Luigi Boni
- Short description: Largest academic hospital and research centre in Milan. We perform the full spectrum of abdominal surgeries (main minimally invasive) from cancer to IBD and benign diseases. We operate every day from 9am till 7.30pm.
Host institution: Liv Hospital Ankara and Ankara Bilkent City Hospital – Ankara, Turkey
- Director: Prof. Mahir Ozmen
Host institution: Kepler University Klinik – Linz, Austria
- Director: Prof. Andreas Shamiyeh
- Short description: The Kepler University Clinic was founded on 31.12.2015 with the merger of the three renowned and tradition-rich hospitals General Hospital of the City of Linz, Provincial Women’s and Children’s Hospital Linz and State Neurological Hospital Wagner-Jauregg. The reason for the merger was the founding of a medical faculty at Johannes Kepler University Linz. With more than 1,800 beds, the Kepler University Hospital is Austria’s second largest hospital and the central healthcare provider in Upper Austria.
Host institution: Kliniken Landkreis Diepholz – Bassum, Germany
- Director: Prof. Thomas Carus
- Klinik Bassum is one of three hospitals of Kliniken Landkreis Diepholz in northern Germany. We are center for minimally invasive surgery with specialties in bariatric, colorectal and hernia surgery. There are 2 MIS-ORs every day equipped with 3D/4K and ICG fluorescence technique.
Host institution: Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum – Leiden, The Netherlands
- Director: Prof. Nicole Bouvy
Host institution: National Cancer Institute – Vilnius, Lithuania
- Director: Dr. Audrius Dulskas
- National Cancer Institute is the only OECI accredited cancer institution in Lithuania. Covering more than one third of all Lithuanian cancer cases. It covers all the solid tumor treatment from surgery to radiotherapy and systemic therapy. Almost 50% of all abdominal surgeries are performed using minimal invasive techniques (laparoscopic or robotic).
Host institution: IHU University of Strasbourg – Strasbourg, France
- Director: Prof. Silvana Perretta
- Short description: The IHU aims to provide innovative training in the field of new technologies driven by its research and development projects, involving international teams to offer clinical, practical, and technical courses to train the professionals of tomorrow.
Host institution: Pederzoli Hospital, Peschiera Del Garda – Verona, Italy
- Director: Dr. Giovanni Butturini
- Tertiary referral center for Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery in Italy. We perform major surgery 4-5 days a week (about 190 procedures per year) with a great experience on both laparoscopic and robotic approach. A special focus is also provided on EUS procedures and academic activities.
Host institution: Ponderas Academic Hospital – Bucharest, Romania
- Director: Prof. Catalin Copaescu
- Short description: Ponderas Academic Hospital is placed in the North part of Bucharest (the capital of Romania), 15’ from the main airport (Otopeni, Henri Coanda Airport). There are 250 hospital beds, accommodating General Surgery, Gastroenterology, Urology, Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, and some other departments. Ponderas Academic Hospital focuses on minimal invasive surgery (laparoscopic or robotic), hosting centers with significant expertise in bariatric, colorectal, hernia surgery. The bariatric & metabolic surgery program includes 80-90 new patients who are monthly operated, [more than 1000 obese patients per year]. Having a high case load and very good results, the Ponderas Hospital was designated as Center of Excellence in Bariatric Surgery by IFSO-EC (in 2011,2014, 2017) and International Center of Excellence for Bariatric Surgery by Surgical Review Corporation, (in 2014, 2017).
Meanwhile, the hospital hosts a training center ( Surgical Training Institute) where, 14-16 courses dedicated to video-assisted techniques are yearly organized www.surgicaltraininginstitute.com). The training activity is Endorsed by EAES.
Host institution: Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust – Portsmouth, United Kingdom
- Director: Prof. Jim Khan
- Short description: The Portsmouth Colorectal Department Fellowship offers advanced training in laparoscopic and robotic colorectal surgery within a high-volume tertiary unit. Fellows gain experience in the assessment and management of benign and malignant colorectal disease, with participation in multidisciplinary team meetings, clinical research, teaching, and quality improvement. For fellows holding General Medical Council (GMC) registration, the programme provides progressive hands-on operative experience under expert supervision. Fellows without GMC registration may undertake the fellowship as an observership, gaining comprehensive exposure to clinical practice, operative techniques, and perioperative decision-making. The programme prepares fellows for independent consultant practice in minimally invasive colorectal surgery. There is a high volume robotic surgery for both benign and malignant conditions, the unit uses 5 daVinci robots including robotic day case surgery. During the fellowship the participant can also observe other operating theatres like emergency, general surgery, and Upper GI surgery, but the main focus of the program is coloproctology.
Host institution: Radboud UMC – Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Director: Prof. Camiel Rosman
- Short description: Radboud university medical center is a leading academic centre with expertise in medical science and healthcare. Expertise plays an essential part in our organisation and connects research, education and patient care. Around 10,000 staff and 3,000 students are committed and ambitious, helping to shape the future of healthcare and medical science.
Host institution: University Hospital Leuven, Belgium
- Director: Dr. Albert Wolthuis
- UZ Leuven is a university hospital where patients can count on specialised care and innovative treatments, combined with humane attention and respect for every person. Every day, our 10,000 passionate employees provide the best possible custom-made care. Yearly, there are performed over 776.000 consultations, 53.000 admissions and 58.000 surgical procedures. Future care providers and employees receive high-quality training in UZ Leuven, with a view lifelong learning and innovation. As a pioneer in clinical research, the hospital also contributes to future patient care. You will become part of the colorectal research group within the department of abdominal surgery at UZ Leuven. This innovative research group performs over 1000 procedures per year and is renowned for its knowledge on minimally invasive surgical techniques.
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Host institution: University Hospital Virgen Macarena – Sevilla, Spain
- Director: Prof. Salvador Morales-Conde
- Short description: Get to know the Virgen Macarena University Hospital. In its 45-year history, it has managed to promote and continue advancing in research, development and innovation as a cornerstone of growth to offer an optimal range of tools in the search for the best health results. Teaching, research and assistance, hand in hand with Citizen Participation, continue to be the flag that flies over the building, and its professionals, many of them with a track record of excellence, are aware that citizenship is the goal.
Host institution: University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Director: Prof. Ales Tomazic
Host institution: University of Torino – Turin, Italy
- Director: Prof. Mario Morino
- Short description: Surgical Unit dedicated to Digestive Surgery with a special focus on colorectal, bariatric and functional upper GI surgery. Prof Morino and his team were among the pioneer of laparoscopic and minimal invasive surgery since 1990 both clinically with over 15 thousand laparoscopic procedures performed and scientifically with over 250 papers published. Surgery is performed daily on 3 operating theatres including Da Vinci Xi and Flexrobotic-Medrobotic. Flexible endoscopy is performed in a dedicated Unit run by surgeon performing diagnostic and operative procedures on a daily basis. There is a training Center allowing hands on TEO-TEM, laparoscopic and Flexrobotic.
Host institution: Vittorio Veneto Hospital, – Vittorio Veneto, Italy
- Director: Dr. Ferdinando Agresta
- The Vittorio Veneto hospital is a community hospital located in the north-east of Italy, not far from Venice. The Surgery Unit carries out approximately 2000 operations per year, of which more than 90% with laparoscopic approach both elective but above all in urgency/emergency. Thoracoscopy and endoscopic activities are also carried out, as well as all general surgery, primarily advanced proctological surgery. Our main interest is all laparoscopic surgery, diagnostic as well as operative, with a focus – but not only – on wall surgery in its totality and complexity. Even if we are a “small” community hospital, we believe in scientific activity, understood above all as a search for daily contextualisation to our reality of what is “written”, EBM based, in international literature. We have participated, suggested and promoted national and international studies and consensus, as an operational unit we have more than 200 articles and several monographs to our credit… and our main goal is to share our experience and professionality!
Host institution: VU Medical Centre – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Director: Prof. Jaap Bonjer
- Short description: The VU University Medical Center has a general practice serving the local community. As part of the teaching hospital, it provides training and experience to medical students and conducts scientific research.
