EAP LEADERSHIP ACADEMY 2025 | LEIPZIG, GERMANY

25-27 September 2025

Registration and accommodation bookings opening soon!

EAP Leadership Academy 2025

Equipping Tomorrow’s Leaders in Paediatrics
25–27 September 2025 | Radisson Blu Hotel, Leipzig, Germany

The European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP) invites you to an exceptional opportunity to accelerate your leadership journey. Join peers and mentors from across Europe for three dynamic days of interactive learning, skill-building, and professional networking in one of Germany’s most vibrant cities.

 

Designed for emerging paediatric leaders and young professionals in medical advocacy and public relations, the EAP Leadership Academy will help you develop essential leadership competencies and master the art of influencing change within the healthcare landscape.

 

 

Who Should Attend?

 
  • Paediatric residents, trainees, or early-career paediatricians.
  • Individuals committed to child health and the advancement of paediatrics.
  • Active members of national or European paediatric organisations.
  • Professionals with current or future potential for leadership, advocacy, or regulatory roles.
 

Why Attend?

  • Connect with and learn from internationally renowned paediatric leaders.
  • Build essential skills in communication, advocacy, and leadership.
  • Expand your professional network with peers and mentors from across Europe.
  • Experience a dynamic, interactive, and inspiring learning environment.
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Places are strictly limited to 30 participaants to ensure an intensive and personalised experience.

Our Supporters

 

The EAP Leadership Academy 2025 is proudly supported by:

Nestlé Nutrition Institute

Increasing the positive impact of nutrition.

Sanofi

Transforming the practice of medicine through breakthrough science.

Programme

Thursday, 25 September - Arrival and Orientation

Arrival & Check-In

🕢 Thursday throughout the day

Welcome Dinner and Ice-Breaker

🕢 19:00 onwards

Engage in a unique, interactive icebreaker during dinner!

🕕 09:00 - 09:30 | Welcome & Introduction

Prof. Suzanne Suggs & Prof. Berthold Koletzko

🕕 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break

🕕 09:30–11:00 | Plenary Presentations

🎥 Media communication – Dr. Daniel Saraga

📱 Social media engagement - by Young EAP Country Representatives.

🎯 Advocacy introduction - exciting presenter to be announced soon!

🩺 Patient-provider communication – Prof. Suzanne Suggs

⚖️ Regulatory science & paediatrics – watch this space, presenter to be announced soon!

🕕 11:30 - 13:00 | Parallel Workshop 1

Media Skills

– Dr. Daniel Saraga

Advocacy & Stakeholder Engagement

– Watch this space!

Patient Communication & Social Media

– Prof. Suzanne Suggs

🕕 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch & Networking

🕕 14:15 - 15:45 | Parallel Workshop 1 (continued)

Media Skills

– Dr. Daniel Saraga

Advocacy & Stakeholder Engagement

– Watch this space!

Patient Communication & Social Media

– Prof. Suzanne Suggs

🕕 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee Break

🕕 16:15 - 17:45 | Parallel Workshop 1 (continued)

Media Skills

– Dr. Daniel Saraga

Advocacy & Stakeholder Engagement

– Watch this space!

Patient Communication & Social Media

– Prof. Suzanne Suggs

🕕 19:00 | Rooftop Dinner & Networking

Enjoy a 3-course dinner Rooftop, Rathuasbar, Melia Hotel.

🕕 16:15 - 17:45 | Parallel Workshop 1 (continued)

🕗 09:00 - 10:30 | Reports from the Groups

🎥 Media: Mock interviews & media exercises

📱 Social Media & Patient Communication: Showcase of strategies

🎯 Advocacy: Role-play panel discussions & stakeholder messaging

🕗 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break

🕘 11:00 - 12:30 | Final Plenary: Advocacy Reflections

🎯 Key elements for effective advocacy

🌍 Paediatric advocacy at EU/international level – Prof. Berthold Koletzko

🏢 Lessons from corporate advocacy

💡 Panel insights: Berthold Koletzko

🕥 12:30 | Closing remarks & next steps

🕥 12:45 - 14:00 | Farewell Lunch

🕥 From 14:00 | Departures or informal networking

Your Mentors. Your Inspiration.

Step into the room with the changemakers.

The EAP Leadership Academy faculty includes paediatric experts, trailblazing advocates, and experienced leaders who have shaped the future of child health.


They’re here to challenge, guide, and inspire you to become the next voice of paediatrics in Europe.

Suzanne Suggs

Leadership Academy Programme Director

Full Professor of Social Marketing, USI, Switzerland Prof. Suggs leads the BeCHANGE research group at the Università della Svizzera italiana and is Vice-President of the Swiss School of Public Health. She has served as co-chair of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force and is an expert in health communication, vaccination acceptance, and behavioural health strategies. Prof. Suggs advises governments and institutions on science communication and health policy, and teaches internationally on health communication and social marketing.

Berthold Koletzko

President, EAP & Chair, EAP Leadership Academy

Prof. Koletzko is the Else Kröner-Senior Professor of Paediatrics at LMU Munich and Head of the Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine at Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital. An internationally recognised expert in paediatric nutrition and metabolism, he has authored over 1,200 scientific articles and holds leadership roles in several global health organisations. He is also the founder and chair of the Child Health Foundation, dedicated to promoting evidence-based child health initiatives.

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Core-MD Project

Coordinating Research and Evidence for Medical Devices (CORE-MD)

New ways to test high-risk medical devices.

 

Manufacturers of medical devices need to test their products before being allowed to market them. Specifically, they require clinical data showing their medical device is safe and efficient. In this context, the EU-funded CORE-MD project will translate expert scientific and clinical evidence on study designs for evaluating high-risk medical devices into advice for EU regulators. The project will propose how new trial designs can contribute and suggest ways to aggregate real-world data from medical device registries.


It will also conduct multidisciplinary workshops to propose a hierarchy of levels of evidence from clinical investigations, as well as educational and training objectives for all stakeholders, to build expertise in regulatory science in Europe. CORE–MD will translate expert scientific and clinical evidence on study designs for evaluating high-risk medical devices into advice for EU regulators, to achieve an appropriate balance between innovation, safety, and effectiveness. A unique collaboration between medical associations, regulatory agencies, notified bodies, academic institutions, patients’ groups, and health technology assessment agencies, will systematically review methodologies for the clinical investigation of high-risk medical devices, recommend how new trial designs can contribute, and advise on methods for aggregating real-world data from medical device registries with experience from clinical practice The consortium is led by the European Society of Cardiology and the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, and involves all 33 specialist medical associations that are members of the Biomedical Alliance in Europe.

EAP Representative: