Dear Colleagues and friends,

Buna ziua,

On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee and the International Scientific Committee, it gives us a great pleasure to welcome you at the 43^rd Annual meeting of the European Society of Paediatric Infectious Disease Society, which will be held between 26^th to 30^th May 2025 in Bucharest, Romania.

ESPID 2025 participants will have the opportunity to attend lectures given by world renowned researchers and scientists that are experts in the field of pediatric infectious disease as well as in other disciplines such as genomics, pharmacology, immunology, gastrointestinal diseases, allergology, public health. ESPID 2025 will also provide the opportunity to participants to present their research, to exchange ideas and interact with all colleagues that share common interests in paediatric infectious disease field. It also offers the opportunity to establish new collaborations between different centers, as well as to reinforce the existing ones. We encourage you to submit your work and share with us all your research interests.

During these challenging times, we hope that our ESPID meeting will provide a link between the Eastern and Western part of Europe that will unite us in our common interest, the health and well-being of our children.

We are planning a social program that will allow you to experience the warmth and welcoming charm of our capital Bucharest and also of the Romanian people.

We are absolutely delighted to welcome you in Bucharest. We hope that you will be involved in all the aspects of the scientific as well as of the social events that ESPID 2025 will offer.

With best wishes,