Dear FESSH members, dear friends,

Our Federation consolidates through a process of maturation which is substantially founded upon the quality and number of contributions of the member nations.
Such a contribution is brought, keeping each specific cultural makeup, within a common language and in the interest of a shared cultural and operational purpose.
Romania is the welcome host of our fifteenth annual Congress and this year’s Instructional Course clearly expresses this assumption: it deals with an aspect of our discipline in which the host nation has expressed one of its most significant contributions; it updates, with its innovative and comprehensive approach, a subject which is of daily interest for the most of us; it collects, involving a large number of authors, the contributions of most of the member nations, and opens itself to the meaningful participation of the newer European Hand Societies that by full right participate in the growth and consolidation of our professional quality.
The full realization of our Federation’s European size represents one of the most heartfelt FESSH current objectives, and happens through the harmonization of the formative processes, research, study, information and accreditation in which the Federation takes interest.
I am certain that the Congress will be rich and fruitful in each of its aspects, both scientific as convivial and I am also certain that Bucharest will happily surprise those who have not yet had the chance to visit this city which is so rich in spirit and history in a country which has such quality and warmth.
I wish you all a positive work experience and a pleasant stay.

Massimo Ceruso
Secretary General of FESSH

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