Volume 21, Issue 2

The ECCO Congress is evolving in 2027 with an expanded scientific programme designed to offer even more opportunities to learn, exchange ideas and connect with the IBD Community. So, before you finalise your travel arrangements for ECCO’27 in Copenhagen, please note the following key changes.

Driving Global Collaboration: A Landmark Milestone for the UR-CARE Platform

In this issue of ECCO News we are very happy to present an interview with Uri Kopylov, the new e-Learning Editor-in-Chief of ECCO. Uri has a long track record in ECCO, having been a member of both ClinCom and EduCom, the latter of which he chaired until 2025. He has been involved in IBD care and research for more than 15 years. He undertook his IBD fellowship at McGill University, Montreal, Canada and is currently clinical professor at Tel Aviv University and director of the IBD unit and the gastroenterology innovation lab at Sheba Medical Center.

The introduction of a new award category, the ECCO Global Grant, at the 19th Congress of ECCO in 2024, represented an exciting step forward in addressing knowledge gaps and unmet needs relevant to low and lower-middle income countries (LMICs). The intention was to promote research partnerships between institutions in ECCO Member Countries and institutions in LMICs in order to strengthen the global network of ECCO while delivering top class international research.

Fostering and supporting collaborative research in IBD across Europe is one of the priorities for ECCO. Accordingly, ECCO has developed a large number of initiatives over the years, including classic research grants, travel grants and fellowships as well as dedicated grants for dietitians and nurses—partners in the IBD multidisciplinary team who usually have limited opportunities to access research grants.