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Session descriptions
EPA2025 offers a wide array of sessions throughout Congress days, covering the latest development in psychiatry.
The European Congress of Psychiatry serves the educational mission of the EPA by providing high-quality EPA Courses, covering all aspects of psychiatry. Each EPA Course is composed of two 90-minute sessions. Please note, fees are charged separately for Courses.
Delivered by top European or worldwide experts, State-of-the-Art sessions have a strong clinical focus, providing a complete update on significant aspects of current clinical treatments in European psychiatry. Each State-of-the-Art session is 45-minutes long.
Plenary Lectures are mainly theoretical and research-oriented, with a strong scientific focus. Delivered by leading psychiatrists, scientists and other mental health professionals invited by the Scientific Programme Committee, plenary lectures cover the main topics of the Congress theme. Each Plenary Lecture is 45-minutes long.
Prominent speakers will present their work and participate in engaging discussions on controversial issues. A chairperson moderates the debate and the following discussion, while two speakers (proponent /opponent) offer and challenge opinions on “hot topics” for 30 minutes each. Participants may also be asked to interact by voting at the beginning and/or end of the session. Each debate is approximately 90-minutes long.
Selected by the Scientific Programme Committee, each symposium focuses on a specific topic in psychiatry and includes four presentations by international speakers, representing several points of view, with an opportunity for a discussion at the end. Each symposium is 90-minutes long.
Workshops are devoted to a specific topic and bring together experts in this field for an intensive discussion. These are 90-minute working sessions, with 30 minutes devoted to discussion and interactivity.
The EPA invites recent graduates to follow its specialist Programme, which is tailored to the needs and interests of Early Career Psychiatrists. The ECP Programme is composed of a Networking Evening and a special track of sessions throughout the Congress.
Ask the Expert sessions allow participants to meet in a small group with outstanding researchers and clinicians in the field of psychiatry. Ask the Expert sessions are designed to facilitate informal discussions, allowing participants to present their questions and gain new perspectives: they take place at a roundtable, and are limited to a certain number of participants. Each session is 90-minutes long. Please note that advanced sign-up is required.
The EPA Forum brings together the EPA Council of National Psychiatric Association (NPA) members and individual EPA members, along with other European organisations, stakeholders and policy makers, to present and discuss matters of European importance in the field of mental health and mental healthcare.
Satellite Symposia sessions are entirely designed, produced and driven by the pharmaceutical industries by an unrestricted educational grant. Sessions are organised by pharmaceutical companies in consultation with the Scientific Programme Committee, and are fully integrated into the Congress.
