The ESC - Who we are

The ESC mission is "to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease in Europe".

ESC Associations

Registered Branches of the ESC: EACPR (Prevention), EAE (Echocardiography), HFA (Heart Failure), EHRA (Heart Rhythm) and EAPCI (Percutaneous Cariovascular Interventions)...

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ESC Councils

Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions (CCNAP), Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science (CBCS), Council for Cardiology Practice (CCP), Council on Primary Cardiovascular Care (CPCC) and the Council on Cardiovascular Imaging (CCI)

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ESC Working Groups

From Acute Cardiac Care through Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance or Grown-up Congenital Heart Disease, the ESC has 19 Working Groups covering a wide variety of sub-specialities...

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ESC Fellowship

The ESC Fellowship community supports and represents the ESC activities throughout the world, advocating excellence in cardiology and maintaining high standards throughout European cardiology...

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National Societies

The ESC has 54 National Cardiac Societies (NCS) as full members.
In addition the ESC counts over 34 Affiliated Cardiac Society (ACS) members.

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Cardiologists of Tomorrow

During the ESC Congress 2009 in Barcelona, young cardiologists from France carried out a survey to find out about young cardiologist organisations across Europe. The results identified a need for a strong community and thus the ESC decided to take the lead and look for support within the structure of the ESC Cardiac Societies.

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History

• Founded in 1950 by representatives from 14 National Societies (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Yugoslavia)
• First General Assembly held during the World Congress in Paris, 1950. ESC Congress then held every four years, organised each time by a different National Society
• Since 1988, the ESC Congress has been an annual event
• In 1993 the European Heart House was built as the official headquarters of the ESC. The European Heart House is based in Sophia Antipolis, near Nice in France.