Joint Meeting ESPRAS & Swiss Plastic Surgery 2026

The 2026 Joint Meeting of ESPRAS and Swiss Plastic Surgery runs from 3 to 5 September 2026 at BERNEXPO Neue Festhalle in Bern, with a separate Trainees Academy on 2 September. It is a broad European plastic surgery congress with parallel scientific sessions across breast reconstruction and aesthetic breast surgery, head and neck reconstruction, vascularised composite allotransplantation, upper and lower extremity reconstruction, burns, lymphoedema, microsurgery, hand surgery, gender-affirming surgery, rhinoplasty, tissue engineering, technology and AI. The public programme shows keynote and free-communication sessions across all three congress days, plus EBOPRAS/UEMS PRAS training content, ICOPLAST international panels, EURAPS research content and society assemblies.

Abstract submission is closed by the time of this scrape, with the public guidelines stating a deadline of Tuesday 31 March at 11:59 p.m. Submissions could be entered as presentation, rapid-fire short presentation, digital poster or digital video, with English structured abstracts using Background, Methods, Results and Conclusion and a 2,400-character limit including spaces. Accepted abstracts are intended for publication unread and uncorrected after author proofreading, and acceptance creates a presenting-author obligation to register within two weeks.

Visible fees are published in euros: surgeons 700/1000/1200 EUR for early bird, standard and onsite; residents 250/450/550 EUR; nurses 300/400/500 EUR; medical students 60/70/80 EUR; and a lower surgeon rate for developing countries. GBP summary price fields were left blank because no GBP source price was stated. Accommodation is available through Conference Services, but reservations after 3 August 2026 are not guaranteed and special rates become request-only.