The Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes will take place between 16th - 20th September 2019 in Barcelona Spain. 

On the 20th March 2019, International Day of Happiness, the University of Oulu will hold an open event to engage with the participants of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 at the TellUs Innovation Arena at the University of Oulu.

The 11th DOHaD World Congress will take place in Melbourne, Australia between 20th and 23rd October 2019 and is hosted by the DOHaD Society of Australia and New Zealand. The theme for the congress is Investing in a Healthy Future for All: Research, Education, Policy. 

The 2018 annual IGES meeting is taking place between 14th and 16th October in San Diego, USA. The satellite meeting precedes The American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, between 16th and 20th October. 

The Association for the Study of Obesity (ASO) is holding its 5th UK Congress on Obesity on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th September, 2018, at Newcastle University. 

The 5th International Conference on Nutrition & Growth will take place between 1st and 3rd March, 2018 in Paris. 

The 4th DHU2020 Autumn School is taking place on 26th and 27th October, 2017 in Nantes, France. This year, the focus will be on 'New Determinants for Chronic Diseases', with lectures from leading specialists in the fields. 

The 11th Oktoberfest Symposium will take place on Tuesday 26th September 2017 in Munich, Germany. Hosted by the Institute of Diabetes Research at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, the symposium brings together international and local scientists to present and discuss experiences and new findings on "Childhood diabetes: features, pathogenesis and intervention".

The Maternal-Fetal Crosstalk: Harmony vs Conflict, part of the Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Circular Biology takes place between 4th and 8th October, 2017 in Washington, DC, USA.

The American Diabetes Association's 77th Scientific Sessions will be held between 9th and 13th June 2017 in San Diego, California, USA.

The next EASD Study Group on Genetics of Diabetes (EASD-SGGD) meeting will take place between 11th and 13th May 2017 in Leiden, the Netherlands.

The next conference on Epidemiological Birth Cohort Studies and the 3rd Paula Rantakallio symposium will take place between 13th and 15th June 2018 in Oulu, Finland.

The 22nd International Congress on Prevention of Diabetes and Complications will take place between October 12-13, 2017 in London, UK.This year’s theme is “Diabetes - from monitoring to management” and reflects the innovative progress in Diabetes disease research.

The European Conference of Human Genetics (ESHG) 2017 marks the 50th Anniversary of the first ESHG Conference and is taking place between 27th and 30th May in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Imperial College London, with support from the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG), are running a short course on the 'Introduction to the statistical analysis of genome-wide association studies' from the 4th to 8th July 2017.

The 18th European Diabetes Congress will take place on 17th and 18th July 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal. The theme of the congress is "Developments and Changing Life of the Diabetes World".

ECO2017, the 24^th European Congress on Obesity, will take place from 17 to 20 May 2017 at the Alfândega Congress Centre in Porto, Portugal. ECO is the most important annual scientific event on obesity in Europe. 

The 10^th anniversary World Congress 'Lifecourse Health and Disease: Observations, Experiments and Interventions’ will take place in Rotterdam between 15th and 18th October 2017. More than 1500 participants and over 800 presenters are expected to attend.

The 2016 European Summit on Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing is organised by DG CONNECT of the European Commission in cooperation with the European Parliament and the European Committee of the Regions and will take place between 5th and 8th December 2016 in Brussels.

Friday 30th September 2016.

If you could become a hero for a day, what kind of hero would you be? One that fights cancer or global warming, prevents hunger or drought, invents devices to counteract handicaps, dreams about making human life possible in space..?

The European Commission is holding a summit with the theme 'Transforming the future of health and care in Europe', focusing on promoting active and healthy ageing through innovations.

The Centre for Longitudinal Studies at University College London is inviting members of the scientific community and those interested in this stage of life to take part in the consultative conference to help determine the content of the Age 60 Survey of the 1958 British birth cohort.

Taking place on 7th May 2016 at the University of Granada, Spain, the 'Understanding the Origins of Obesity' International Symposium will focus on the current understanding of the biological processes involved in foetal programming of obesity and its co-morbidities. 

Over the past 10 years, the Early Nutrition Academy (ENA) has organised a series of highly successful symposiums, training and postgraduate courses for young scientists with a commitment to paediatric nutrition research. This new 'Role of Early Nutrition on Non-Communicable Disease Development' ENA Postgraduate Course will be held in Granada on 4th and 5th May 2016.

World Cancer Research Fund International and World Obesity Federation are hosting this two-day conference in 2016. This conference is a ‘part-2’ in a series following the first OPAC conference in 2013.

The European Obesity Summit will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden from the 1st to 4th June 2016.

Organised by the EarlyNutrition Programme and the Early Nutrition Academy “The Power of Programming 2016 - Developmental Origins of Adiposity and Long-term Health” conference will take place from October 13th to 15th, 2016 in Munich, Germany.

The DOHaD 9th World Congress, being held in Cape Town, South Africa, between 8th to 11th November 2015, brings together health experts and policy leaders from around the world to address the many challenges that currently impact the health of mothers, babies in the womb, infants, children and adolescents, as well as explore solutions, interventions and policies to optimise health across the life of people. 

Conference on Epidemiological Birth Cohort Studies, 2nd Paula Rantakallio Symposium and 5th Conference on Epidemiological Longitudinal Studies in Europe (CELSE)

Organised by the Northern Finland Birth Cohort Studies, The University of Oulu, this conference will take place between Wednesday 15th June and Friday 17th June 2016, in Oulu, Finland.

Funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, this symposium has been designed by the researchers of the Early Growth Genetic consortium. Chaired by Thorkild IA Sørensen of the Institute of Preventive Medicine, member of the DynaHEALTH consortium, the event will be held at the Novo Nordisk Foundation auditorium in Hellerup, Denmark on April 20th, 2016.