Volume 20, Issue 1

The 20th Congress of ECCO, Berlin, Germany – Inflammatory Bowel Diseases 2025, held on February 19-22, 2025, attracted a total number of 8,311 delegates from 99 different countries. Since the inaugural ECCO Congress in 2006 in Amsterdam, at which there were 350 delegates, participant numbers have steadily increased, as shown in the graph below. Despite the COVID-19 outbreak in the beginning of 2020, we are happy that this high number of delegates had the chance to participate in the ECCO’25 Congress in Berlin.

Dear ECCO friends, Welcome to the first edition of ECCO News for 2025! We hope this newsletter finds you well and thriving as we embark on another exciting year for the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation. We were thrilled to reconnect with so many of you at the recent ECCO congress in Berlin, which proved to be a remarkable gathering filled with insightful discussions.

Dear IBD colleagues, dear ECCO friends and family, I hope everyone is keeping well and looking forward to all the exciting opportunities and offers that ECCO has in store for the rest of the year! But first let me bring you back to our flagship event, the ECCO Congress which took place in Berlin, February 19 - 22, earlier this year.

Dear Alessandro, Congratulations again on your election as the new President-Elect of ECCO. Dear friends and colleagues, Thank you very much for your kind congratulations on my election as the new President-Elect of ECCO. It is a tremendous honour and responsibility, and I look forward to working closely with all of you to advance the mission and impact of ECCO in the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) arena.

Congratulations to the winners of the ECCO Fellowships and Grants awarded at ECCO’25 in snowy Berlin this year. ECCO is investing up to EUR 1.8 million in scientific research. Learn more here about the new projects that will be supported by ECCO in 2025. At ECCO’25, Berlin, the winners of the ECCO Fellowships and Grants programme received their certificates, presented by Fernando Magro together with Britta Siegmund.