- In
April 2004, a European Conference on Harmonisation of PhD Programmes in
Biomedicine and Health Sciences was held in
Zagreb. It became clear that PhD programmes are so different that even a PhD
title has a different meaning in different parts of Europe. While some
countries did not have any clinical PhD programmes, others had even two. Therefore, delegates coming from 25 universities and 16 European countries agreed
that there is a need for European harmonisation and they accepted 'The
Declaration of the European Conference on Harmonisation of PhD Programmes in
Medicine and Health Sciences' ('Zagreb Declaration'), which contains the first
European consensus statement what a PhD programme should be. Close similarities between the 'Zagreb Declaration' and '10 Salzburg Principles' (Bologna Seminar,
Salzburg, 2005) are not surprising...
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The
Second European Conference on Harmonisation of PhD Programmes in Biomedicine
and Health Sciences, held in Zagreb in 2005, included delegates from Medical
Schools and/or Schools of Public Health from 33 universities and 21 European
countries.
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At
the end of the Conference, President of the Scientific and Organising
Committee, Professor Zdravko Lackovic (Zagreb) proposed formation
of a European organization of PhD studies in biomedicine and public
health to ensure further European activities.
- Professor Seppo Meri
(Helsinki) (on the left) agreed
with Professor Michael J. Mulvany (Aarhus)
(on the right) on proposing a name for the organization: ORPHEUS -
ORganization of PhD Education in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in the
EUropean System.
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- Finally, Professor Joachim Seitz (Hamburg) congratulated the organizers and the newly elected ORPHEUS Executive (Initiative)
Committee on behalf of all delegates.
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- The Constituent Assembly of ORPHEUS – was organized by
the elected (Executive) Initiative Committee at its session held on
November 12, 2006 in
Dubrovnik, Croatia - adopting the ORPHEUS
statutes – in this way ORPHEUS was officially born.Legaly ORPHEUS was registered in Zagreb, February 9, 2007.
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- Sept 20 - 21, 2008 at the ORPHEUS 2008
Annual Conference and Executive Committee Meeting at the Medical University Graz, a decision was
made about the continuous activities of ORPHEUS starting from the 2004 conference in Zagreb. Accordingly, the 2004 Zagreb
conference became ORPHEUS
2004: First European Conference, etc. The main conference documents
are to be referred to as "The ORPHEUS Zagreb declaration", etc.
- On April 3, 2009 ORPHEUS become the associate member of the Copuncil of Doctoral Education - European University Association (CDE-EUA).
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