The European Peptide Symposia
The organization of the European Peptide Symposium is the most important activity of the
European Peptide Society
(EPS). This biennial international symposium regularly attracts about 1000 participants from all over the world. After each symposium the Proceedings are published.
The First European Peptide Symposium took place in Prague (Czechoslovakia) in 1958. Although the early symposia were devoted largely to the development of chemical
methods for the synthesis of peptides, the programmes now extend to the biology of peptides and include, for example, structure-activity relationships, conformational
studies, peptide vaccines, and the immunology of peptides. In 1978 the 15th European Peptide Symposium was held by G. Kupryszewski in Gdańsk. Twenty eight years later
the 29th European Peptide Symposium was organized by K. Rolka and Co-Chairs in Gdańsk again. The list of past and future the European Peptide Symposia, their locations
and dates are given below.
See also our picture gallery from the
29th European Peptide Symposium (organized in 2006 in Gdańsk)
and the
15th European Peptide Symposium (organized in 1978 in Gdańsk).
| Number |
Location (country) |
Year |
| I |
Prague (Czechoslovakia) |
1958 |
| II |
Munich (FRG) |
1959 |
| III |
Basel (Switzerland) |
1960 |
| IV |
Moscow (USSR) |
1961 |
| V |
Oxford (UK) |
1962 |
| VI |
Athens (Greece) |
1963 |
| VII |
Budapest (Hungary) |
1964 |
| VIII |
Noordwijk (The Nederlands) |
1966 |
| IX |
Orsay (France) |
1968 |
| X |
Abano Terme (Italy) |
1999 |
| XI |
Vienna (Austria) |
1971 |
| XII |
Reinhardsbrunn (GDR) |
1972 |
| XIII |
Kiriyat Anavim (Israel) |
1974 |
| XIV |
Wepion (Belgium) |
1976 |
| XV |
Gdańsk (Poland) |
1978 |
| XVI |
Helsingør (Denmark) |
1980 |
| XVII |
Prague (Czechoslovakia) |
1982 |
| XVIII |
Djurönäset (Sweden) |
1984 |
| XIX |
Porto Carras (Greece) |
1986 |
| XX |
Tübingen (FRG) |
1988 |
| XXI |
Barcelona (Spain) |
1990 |
| XXII |
Interlaken (Switzerland) |
1992 |
| XXIII |
Braga (Portugal) |
1994 |
| XXIV |
Edinburgh (UK) |
1996 |
| XXV |
Budapest (Hungary) |
1998 |
| XXVI |
Montpellier (France) |
2000 |
| XXVII |
Sorrento (Italy) |
2002 |
| XXVIII |
Prague (Czech Republic) |
2004 |
| XXIX |
Gdańsk (Poland) |
2006 |
| XXX |
Helsinki (Finland) |
2008 |
| XXXI |
Copenhagen (Denmark) |
2010 |
| XXXII |
Athens (Greece) |
2012 |
| XXXIII |
Sofia (Bulgaria) |
2014 |
| XXXIV |
Leipzig (Germany) |
2016 |
| XXXV |
Dublin (Ireland) |
2018 |
| XXXVI |
Sitges (Spain) |
2022 |
The next
XXXVII European Peptide Symposium will be held in Florence (Italy) from August 25-30, 2024.
