The I-SCREEN research project is over half way to its recruitment target, with 2,733 participants across Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, the United Kingdom and Spain, plus an additional 275 participants enrolled in France. Read more about this pioneering project in...
The European Union’s updated rules on driving licences, which entered into force on 25 November 2025, mark a significant modernisation of the legislative framework. ECOO has been actively engaged in contributing to development of this new Directive, seeking to ensure...
In our latest member article, ECOO’s Bulgarian members, The Bulgarian Association Of Optometrists (BAO) and The National Association Of Bulgarian Optometrists And Opticians (NABOO), outline progress in professional and institutional discussions regarding the...
More than 50 delegates from 22 countries met in Puglia, Italy, for the ECOO General Assembly and autumn meetings, 17-19 October. The meetings were hosted by ECOO’s three Italian members, the Associazione Laureati Ottica e Optometria (ALOeO), Federottica and the...
On 7 October 2025 the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Spain, at the proposal of the Ministry of Health, approved the Royal Decree that will regulate the direct granting of aid for the purchase of glasses, prescription lenses, and contact lenses for children up...
The Lithuanian Optometrists Association (Lietuvos Optometrininkų Asociacija) was voted into membership of ECOO by the General Assembly in October 2025. They introduce themselves, outline how the profession operates in Lithuania and set out their aspirations for the...
