Dear colleagues,

The 16th EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting will be held in Berlin, Germany from 24 to 26 September 2025. Workshops and project meetings are scheduled for the pre-conference day, 23 September. The multi-day conference format allows for poster and early career dedicated sessions, several keynotes and parallel sessions, and overall plenty of opportunities to engage and network with fellow EUSPR members.

The chosen venue is the historical Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, campus Mitte, in Berlin city centre. The history of Charité dates back to the year 1710 as a quarantine hospital. Since then, it has retained its importance as a clinical training center and later academic education of civilian physicians and has since become Europe’s largest university hospital. As such, it is widely known for its high research impact and its state-of-the-art care facilities. From a medical perspective, it has also recently built a strong focus on prevention and established a prevention, health and human sciences center.

The goal of the conference is to reflect upon diverse definitions and practices of prevention and their implications for their respective fields and prevention systems, connect cutting-edge prevention research with practical needs of practitioners, policymakers, and the public. We also want to discuss how to foster shared learning and improve intersectoral collaboration (e.g., across social and health care systems and administrations) in Europe, with the ultimate goal of  achieving stronger links between research, education, and practice. and raising  the quality of education and training of prevention scientists and practitioners.

In this spirit, this year’s conference also focuses on an interdisciplinary perspective on prevention, which aims to connect medical sciences, social and political sciences and humanities in their understanding and practice of prevention. Consequently, our theme this year is ‘The prevention continuum: Implications for research and practice’, referring to a prevention continuum from universal and primary prevention and health promotion to indicated and tertiary prevention.

Our keynotes and special sessions will focus on the continuum at the intersection of different areas of prevention, inter- and transdisciplinary prevention practice (e.g., in medicine, education or social work), interdisciplinary prevention science as well as epistemological differences across disciplines, countries, and prevention systems and cultures. This also includes a debate on conceptual and empirical differences and similarities between individualized or personalized prevention approaches (e.g. in precision medicine) and environmental prevention and whole-system approaches (e.g., in public health) and their long-term public health impact.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Berlin!

Samuel Tomczyk (on behalf of the Scientific Committee) and
Maximilian von Heyden (on behalf of the Local Organizing Committee)

Draft Programme

Application procedures and Minimum Standards for hosting EUSPR conferences

The European Society for Prevention Research holds its annual conferences in European cities that wish to host a conference dedicated to prevention science. The local conference host is an entity or a consortium of entities (such as, but not limited to an NGOs, a university, a foundation or a public body/authority) who signs as local counterpart for the EUSPR … Read more

The 16th EUSPR Conference receives financial support from the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises through the Congress Fund for Sustainable Meetings. It is co-organized by FINDER Akademie and the Institute of Sexology and Sexual Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin