The first combined congress of the two most important headache societies, the International Headache Society and the European Headache Federation took place from 8–12 September 2021. Originally planned as hybrid meeting, we had to react to the Covid-19 situation and decided to conduct the congress fully virtual.
Here are some facts about the congress:
Participants who require a separate certificate, please email headache-congress@conventus.de.
In 2020 the life we know has changed in an unforeseen way due to the worldwide crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic. A virtual format of the 2020 congresses was the only possible way to let the scientific exchange happen at all.
As all of us agreed afterwards it was a great success and a dignified substitute. All of a sudden, people from all over the world, who never had the chance to take part in an onsite congress, had the possibility to join the conference. It was a suspenseful new version of the conference, which was reorganised in only 6 weeks with the motto "seperated but nontheless united".
EHF 2020 in numbers