37th EPSA Annual Congress 2014 10
The Hungarian experience
400 pharmacy students and Educational program pharmacists, altogether in one place, The next morning we had breakfast and left by for one week: Budapest. The topic of bus to the Semmelweis University, where at 9:00 this Annual Congress? “Interprofessional the first Symposium started. A major aspect of the Annual Congress was educational, with the inclusion Collaboration and Education”. It was my second time at an EPSA Annual Congress, yet I still was filled with the same excitement I felt prior to my first one, once the thought of trying to acquaint ourselves with everyone due to the shear number of participants arriving from all over Europe was a daunting prospect.
Firstly my friends from GPSF (Greek Pharmaceutical Students Federation) and I travelled by plane on 24th April to Budapest. We stayed at the Danubius Hotel Aréna, where all participants from the congress stayed and everything started on Friday 25th April. At 21:00 we went to the Congress Opening Ceremony. There I met friends who I had met for first time in the Autumn Assembly last year (which was my first EPSA congress).It was a pleasant night and we enjoyed every second of it. The occasion was a formal affair as it was a black tie event, and the food and drink provided included champagne and delicious finger foods. The ceremony was opened by the president of EPSA, along with the members of EPSA Team. At the end of the night we all danced together at European hits.
European Pharmaceutical Students’ Association
of workshops, which were lead by teachers and experts in pharmaceutical science, training sessions and General Assemblies.
My favorite part of the Annual Congress were the elections. The official delegates elected the new EPSA Executive and decided who would host both the Summer University and Autumn Assembly in 2015. AEFFUL (from Lisbon, Portugal) was awarded hosting rights for the SU and MPSA (Malta) for the AA.