# **EUBS 2024 General Assembly - Brest, France, September 20, 2024 11:00 12:30**
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FranGois GUERRERO
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Pierre LAFÈRE
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Costantino BALESTRA
Jean-Éric BLArrEAU
Gerardo BOSCO
Ingrid EFTEDAL
Jacek KOT
FranFois GUERRERO
Bengusu MIRASOGLU
Rodrigue PIGNEL
Michael THERON
Gaelle ALBACETE
Aline AMERAND
Guillaume GILBERT
Anthony GUERNEC
Pierre LAFÈRE
Christine MOISAN
Karine PICHAVANT
Bernard SIMON
Michael THERON
EUBS2024 Organising. & Scientific Committee
## **General Assembly**
**1. Approval of the Minutes of General Assembly 2023 (these have been published on the EUBS Website)**
2. Report on EUBS2024 Meeting 3. EUBS Elections 4. Financial Report 5. Membership Report 6. DHM Journal & Social Media Report 7. Next EUBS meetings 8. Any other business
## **General Assembly**
**1. Approval of the Minutes of General Assembly 2023 (these have been published on the EUBS Website)**
2. Report on EUBS2024 Meeting 3. EUBS Elections 4. Financial Report 5. Membership Report 6. DHM Journal & Social Media Report 7. Next EUBS meetings 8. Any other business
**Approval of GA**
## **General Assembly**
1. Approval of the Minutes of General Assembly 2023 (these have been published on the EUBS Website)
**2. Report on EUBS2024 Meeting** 3. EUBS Elections 4. Financial Report 5. Membership Report 6. DHM Journal & Social Media Report 7. Next EUBS meetings 8. Any other business
## Annual Scientific Meeting 2024
1. Registrations: 237 registered participants, 19 accompanying persons, 21 exhibitors, 6 invited
2. 48 oral presentations (12 HBOT 36 diving), 25 poster presentations (12 HBOT 13 diving), 6 keynote lectures
3. 2 pre-congress workshops; Social Events 4. Formal thanks to local organisers Francois Guerrero and his team for their patience and efforts
5. Thanks to supporting organisations and sponsors
## Annual Scientific Meeting 2024
## **Awards and Grants**
- Travel Grants: none
- Research Grants: 2 requests
- Clara GAIO LIMA (POR): The influence of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on the gut microbiome.
- Sanjin KOVACEVIC (SBR): Effects of hyperbaric oxygenation on the pathogenesis of postischemic acute kidney injury.
- Zetterström Award (best poster) Award Committee: Phil Bryson, Lesley Blogg, Pierre Lafère
- Patrick Musimu Award (best poster/oral presentation on apnea diving) Award Committee: Evangelos Papoutsidakis, Sigrid Theunissen
# Annual Scientific Meeting 2024 **Arne Zetterström Award** for best poster
Annual Scientific Meeting 2024 **Patrick Musimu Award** for freediving poster/oral presentation
Not awarded in 2024
## **General Assembly**
1. Approval of the Minutes of General Assembly 2023 (these have been published on the EUBS Website)
2. Report on EUBS2024 Meeting **3. EUBS Elections** 4. Financial Report 5. Membership Report 6. DHM Journal & Social Media Report 7. Next EUBS meetings 8. Any other business
EUBS ExCom Elections 2024
**Pedro BARATA COELHO** Portugal
**Mihaela IGNATESCU** United Kingdom
**Anders KJELLBERG** Sweden
EUBS ExCom Elections 2024
Voting software (Election Runner) from July 10th - September 12th
## EUBS ExCom Elections 2024
**Approval of GA**
**Pedro BARATA COELHO** Portugal
**Mihaela IGNATESCU** United Kingdom
**Anders KJELLBERG** Sweden
## - EUBS ExCom 2024 2025
: **New composition of EUBS ExCom 2024-2025** • President: Jean-Eric Blatteau • Vice-President: Bengusu Mirasoglu • Immediate Past President: Ole Hyldegaard • Past President: Jacek Kot
- Member at Large 2020: Oscar Camacho
- • Member at Large 2021: Evangelos Papoutsidakis • Member at Large 2022: Anne Räisänen-Sokolowski • Member at Large 2023: Michal Hajek • Membership Secretary – Treasurer: Kath Pye • Honorary Secretary: Peter Germonpré • EUBS Liaison Officer: Phil Bryson • DHM, European/Deputy Editor: Lesley Blogg
## - EUBS ExCom 2024 2025
: **New composition of EUBS ExCom 2024-2025** • President: Jean-Eric Blatteau • Vice-President: Bengusu Mirasoglu • Immediate Past President: Ole Hyldegaard • Past President: Jacek Kot • Member at Large 2021: Evangelos Papoutsidakis • Member at Large 2022: Anne Räisänen-Sokolowski • Member at Large 2023: Michal Hajek • Member at Large 2024: Anders Kjellberg • Membership Secretary – Treasurer: Kath Pye • Honorary Secretary: Peter Germonpré • EUBS Liaison Officer: Phil Bryson • DHM, European/Deputy Editor: Lesley Blogg
## - EUBS ExCom 2024 2025
## **Liaison Committee**
- Relations with other Societies / Disciplines
- Online Discussion Group Pathologists
- Phil Bryson, Rodrigue Pignel
**DHM Journal Governance Committee**
- According to MoU SPUMS-EUBS (signed 2018)
- Phil Bryson, Karin Hasmiller
**Research & Education Committee**
- Propose activities (e.g workshops @ EUBS Meeting);
- Evaluate (Travel Grant &) Research Grant applications
- • Costantino Balestra, Jean-Eric Blatteau, Karin Hasmiller, Gerardo Bosco
## **General Assembly**
1. Approval of the Minutes of General Assembly 2023 (these have been published on the EUBS Website)
2. Report on EUBS2024 Meeting 3. EUBS Elections **4. Financial Report** 5. Membership Report 6. DHM Journal & Social Media Report 7. Next EUBS meetings 8. Any other business
Financial Report (01 January 2023 – 31 December 2023)
- Audited and approved by Mr Richard Wate (DDRC) on March 28, 2024
- Richard formally thanked by EUBS ExCom.
- Richard is retired now, Martin Pope (DDRC) volunteered to replace him.
- EUBS Financial situation is healthy
- Expenses in 2024:
- Journal trimesterial payments
- ExCom Registration fee EUBS 2024
## **EUBS FINANCIAL STATEMENT 1st JANUARY TO 31st DECEMBER 2023**
|**Sterling Account**
Opening Bank Balance at 1st January 2023
Paypal Balance at 1st January 2023
Petty Cash at 1st January 2023
EUBS Savings Account balance at 1st January 2023
**Income**
Membership Fees
ONR Grant
Transfer Tricon Balance
Interest Received
**Expenditure**
Administrative Costs
Secretarial Fees
Secretary hotel, travel and registration
ExCom member conference fees
Excom member entertainment
Expenses relating to Conference
Broadband
Website / IT costs
Insurance
Bank Charges
Exchange rate losses
Other
Charitable Activities
2024 Conference advance payment
Research Grant
Travel grants
Award winner grants
Journal Expenses
December PY Issue
March Issue
June Issue
September Issue
December Issue
**Movement in the Year**
**Total Balance at 31st December 2023**
**Made up of**
Closing Bank Balance at 31st December 2023
Paypal Balance at 31st December 2023
EUBS Savings Account balance at 31st December 2023|**£**
932
1,828
5,245
1,021
134
500
1,587
1,149
1,062
956
65|**£**
18,488
14,433
0
51,498|**2023**
**£**
**84,419**
**45,776**
**46,074**
**-298**
**84,121**
**84,121**|**£**
914
0
1,952
0
0
0
622
1,035
1,232
0
0|**£**
27,482
8,385
0
51,282|**2022**
**£**
**87,149**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||35,600
9,663
0
514|||38,078
0
216
0|**38,293**|
|||14,478|||5,755|**41,024**|
||0
0
2,069
500|2,569||2,247
7,356
341
485|10,429||
||1,277
6,803
6,976
8,113
5,857|29,027||1,446
6,045
6,007
6,443
4,899|24,840||
|||29,559
2,550
52,012|||18,488
14,433
51,498|**-2,730**|
|||||||**84,419**|
|||||||**84,419**|
- Research Grants, Zetterstrom Award 2024
- Report will be made available on EUBS Website (Member’s Only Section) for three months
## **EUBS FINANCIAL STATEMENT 1st JANUARY TO 31st DECEMBER 2023**
|**Sterling Account**
Opening Bank Balance at 1st January 2023
Paypal Balance at 1st January 2023
Petty Cash at 1st January 2023
EUBS Savings Account balance at 1st January 2023
**Income**
Membership Fees
ONR Grant
Transfer Tricon Balance
Interest Received
**Expenditure**
Administrative Costs
Secretarial Fees
Secretary hotel, travel and registration
ExCom member conference fees
Excom member entertainment
Expenses relating to Conference
Broadband
Website / IT costs
Insurance
Bank Charges
Exchange rate losses
Other
Charitable Activities
2024 Conference advance payment
Research Grant
Travel grants
Award winner grants
Journal Expenses
December PY Issue
March Issue
June Issue
September Issue
December Issue
**Movement in the Year**
**Total Balance at 31st December 2023**
**Made up of**
Closing Bank Balance at 31st December 2023
Paypal Balance at 31st December 2023
EUBS Savings Account balance at 31st December 2023|**2023**
**£**
**£**
**£**
18,488
14,433
0
51,498
**84,419**
35,600
9,663
0
514
**45,776**
932
1,828
5,245
1,021
134
500
1,587
1,149
1,062
956
65
14,478
0
0
2,069
500
2,569
1,277
6,803
6,976
8,113
5,857
29,027
**46,074**
**-298**
**84,121**
29,559
2,550
52,012
**84,121**|**2022**
**£**
**£**
**£**
27,482
8,385
0
51,282
**87,149**
38,078
0
216
0
**38,293**
914
0
1,952
0
0
0
622
1,035
1,232
0
0
5,755
2,247
7,356
341
485
10,429
1,446
6,045
6,007
6,443
4,899
24,840
**41,024**|**2022**
**£**
**£**
27,482
8,385
0
51,282
**87,149**|**2022**
**£**
**£**
27,482
8,385
0
51,282
**87,149**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||38,078
0
216
0
**38,293**||
||||**-2,730**
**84,419**
18,488
14,433
51,498
**84,419**|**-2,730**|
|||||**84,419**|
**Approval of GA**
## **General Assembly**
1. Approval of the Minutes of General Assembly 2023 (these have been published on the EUBS Website)
2. Report on EUBS2024 Meeting 3. EUBS Elections 4. Financial Report **5. Membership Report** 6. DHM Journal & Social Media Report 7. Next EUBS meetings 8. Any other business
## Membership Report
EUBS Membership had been slowly decreasing until 2023 compared to 20202021, now again on the rise: 280 members
Reasons:
- End-of-COVID effect ?
- Effort by all to encourage colleagues to become a member ?
- - High quality journal ?
- - More CHT/nurses becoming members ?
- Needs more effort from all of us !
## Membership Fees
- Membership categories (2024)
- Full Member (DHM e-journal)
- Undergraduate Member (student)
- Associate Member (only Journal, no medical/scientific background needed)
- Print Service surcharge
- Corporate Membership
- 10% Discount for members of Affiliate Societies and Group Memberships
- 2024: UHMS, SIMSI, SBMHS, SHF, GTUEM, MedSubHyp, SUHMS, ASEMHS, ASUHM, NVD, Finnish Society Diving & Hyperbaric Medicine
- Yearly agreement upon written request; renewed on ExCom decision
Membership Fees
• Have been unchanged since 2018 (even 2015 !) !
## Membership Fees
- Have been unchanged since 2018 (even 2015 !) !
• European Consumer Price Index: average 3.76% /year !
## Membership Fees
- Proposed Membership Fees 2025
- Full Membership : **140 €** (was: 120 €)
- Undergraduate Membership : **70 €** (was: 60 €)
- Associate Membership : **120 €** (was: 100 €)
- Print Service surcharge : **50 €** (increased last year)
- Corporate Membership : **800 €**
- 10% Discount : maintained for all current Affiliate Societies
**Approval of GA**
## **General Assembly**
1. Approval of the Minutes of General Assembly 2023 (these have been published on the EUBS Website)
2. Report on EUBS2024 Meeting 3. EUBS Elections 4. Financial Report 5. Membership Report **6. DHM Journal & Social Media Report** 7. Next EUBS meetings 8. Any other business
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2020
2021
2022
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35
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43
64
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33
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## **General Assembly**
1. Approval of the Minutes of General Assembly 2023 (these have been published on the EUBS Website)
2. Report on EUBS2024 Meeting 3. EUBS Elections 4. Financial Report 5. Membership Report 6. DHM Journal & Social Media Report **7. Next EUBS meetings** 8. Any other business
## Next EUBS Meetings
- 2025 Helsinki (Finland) – 2-5 September 2025 • Secretary-general: Anne RAISANEN-SOKOLOWSKI
- • Website: https://www.eubs2025.com/
## Next EUBS Meetings
- 2026 Geneva, Switzerland
- Dates: September 2026
- Secretary-General: Rodrigue PIGNEL
- 2027 Copenhagen, Denmark – dates TBC
- Secretary-General: Ole HYLDEGAARD
- Proposals for next meetings: call for proposals is open
- TRICON Tricontinental Meeting: will be discussed with SPUMS and SAUHMA, possibly 2028
- SPUMS ASM 2025
## **General Assembly**
1. Approval of the Minutes of General Assembly 2023 (these have been published on the EUBS Website)
2. Report on EUBS2024 Meeting 3. EUBS Elections 4. Financial Report 5. Membership Report 6. DHM Journal & Social Media Report 7. Next EUBS meetings **8. Any other business**
## Other business
- ECHM-EUBS Collaboration & merger
- Agreed in principle during EUBS 2019
- Task force: Jacek KOT (ECHM) + Peter GERMONPRE (EUBS)
- Necessary terms and conditions defined
- Requires change in Bylaws of EUBS – will be proposed for general vote at EUBS 2025
- ECHM: Code of Good Practice on HBOT – updated
- Has been published 2023 in DHM Journal
- **Has been printed and offered free of charge to all EUBS members and all Attendees of EUBS2024**
## Any other business ?
- None reported
**Approval of GA**
# **EUBS 2024 General Assembly - Brest, France, September 20, 2024 11:00 12:30**
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||£|2024£|£|£|2023
£|£|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Bank Opening Position|||||||
|Current Account||29,559|||18,488||
|Paypal||2,550|||14,433||
|Sa^'ngs||52,012 M^M|||51,498|84,419|
|Income|||||||
|Membership Fees||44,599|||35,600||
|Research Grant||9,311|||9,663||
|Interest Received||780|54,690||514|45,776|
|Expenditure|||||||
|Administrative Costs|||||||
|Secretarial Fees|950|||932|||
|Secretary hotel, travel and registration|1,968|||1,828|||
|ExCom member conference fees|3,787|||5,245|||
|Excom member entertainment||||1,021|||
|Expenses relating to Conference|28|||134|||
|Broadband|283|||500|||
|Website/ IT costs|895|||1,587|||
|Insurance|1.252|||1,149|||
|Bank Charges|1,021|||1,062|||
|Exchange rate losses|453|||956|||
|Other|7|10,644||65|14,478||
|Charitable Activities|||||||
|2025 Conference advance payment|2,161||||||
|Research Grant|3,306||||||
|Travel grants||||2,069|||
|Award winner grants||5,467||500|2,569||
|Journal Expenses|||||||
|December PY Issue|1,382|||1,277|||
|March Issue|7,721|||6,803|||
|June Issue|7,507|||6,976|||
|September Issue|10,004|||8,113|||
|December Issue|7,174|33,788 49,899||5,857|29,027 ^^^^^^^^ ^||
|Movement in the Year|||A791|||(298)|
|Total Balance at 31st December 2024|||88,912|||84,121|
|Bank closing position|||||||
|Current Account||31,287|||29,559||
|Pay pal||4,833|||2,550||
|Savings||52,792|88,912||52,012|84,121|
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||£|2024£|£|£|2023
£|£|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Bank Opening Position|||||||
|Current Account||29,559|||18,488||
|Paypal||2,550|||14,433||
|Sa^'ngs||52,012 M^M|||51,498|84,419|
|Income|||||||
|Membership Fees||44,599|||35,600||
|Research Grant||9,311|||9,663||
|Interest Received||780|54,690||514|45,776|
|Expenditure|||||||
|Administrative Costs|||||||
|Secretarial Fees|950|||932|||
|Secretary hotel, travel and registration|1,968|||1,828|||
|ExCom member conference fees|3,787|||5,245|||
|Excom member entertainment||||1,021|||
|Expenses relating to Conference|28|||134|||
|Broadband|283|||500|||
|Website/ IT costs|895|||1,587|||
|Insurance|1.252|||1,149|||
|Bank Charges|1,021|||1,062|||
|Exchange rate losses|453|||956|||
|Other|7|10,644||65|14,478||
|Charitable Activities|||||||
|2025 Conference advance payment|2,161||||||
|Research Grant|3,306||||||
|Travel grants||||2,069|||
|Award winner grants||5,467||500|2,569||
|Journal Expenses|||||||
|December PY Issue|1,382|||1,277|||
|March Issue|7,721|||6,803|||
|June Issue|7,507|||6,976|||
|September Issue|10,004|||8,113|||
|December Issue|7,174|33,788 49,899||5,857|29,027 ^^^^^^^^ ^||
|Movement in the Year|||A791|||(298)|
|Total Balance at 31st December 2024|||88,912|||84,121|
|Bank closing position|||||||
|Current Account||31,287|||29,559||
|Pay pal||4,833|||2,550||
|Savings||52,792|88,912||52,012|84,121|
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