In May and September 2024, ECOO organised two key consortium meetings, gathering 30 to 40 educators from across Europe to discuss collaboration to advance optometric education. The two consortium meetings underscored a shared commitment to advancing optometric...
ECOO is part of a multidisciplinary consortium, led by the Medical University in Vienna, working on the EU-funded I- SCREEN project to develop an efficient and cost-effective AI-based infrastructure for the early detection of Age-Related Macular Degeneration...
ECOO President, Gabrielle Janssen, gave her thoughts on the future of optometry and optics and how she and ECOO believe the sector can contribute much more than it does at present, in an interview with MAFO Ophthalmic Labs and Industry Magazine last month. You can...
Understanding the growing role of technology and e-health in eye care is an important strand of ECOO’s work. It has been the subject of workshops with ECOO members at both our spring meetings earlier this year in Helsinki and again at our recent autumn meetings in...
ECOO has today, 5 November 2024, published a position paper that considers the impact the new World Council of Optometry (WCO) Competency Framework for Optometry, launched in March 2024, will have on its own activities. In particular the ECOO Blue Book, and the...
At the ECOO General Assembly, held Sunday 13 October 2024, in Hamburg, Germany, Gabriëlle Janssen (The Netherlands) took over the Presidency of ECOO from Matjaž Mihelčič (Slovenia). In her introductory address to ECOO members, Gabriëlle expressed how honoured she was...
