The European Society of Biomechanics

The ESB is involved in the running, sponsoring, or the organisation of various events, which fall broadly speaking in 3 categories:

1. disseminated events
2. endorsed events
3. ESB-organised events

If you would like to know the procedures related to these, and how you go about getting involved, please read this extract from the rules book here.

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ESB Congress

The European Society of Biomechanics holds an Annual international scientific conference to provide the most up to date research in biomechanics and to provide a forum of discussion.

Previous congresses

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>>>>> Future ESB Congresses (2015 and beyond) <<<<<

The ESB invites proposals for its future annual ESB conferences for 2015 and beyond. Interested members can informally contact or send a proposal/bid to Dr Peter Zioupos, Chair of the meetings Committee
( p.zioupos@cranfield.ac.uk )

If you would like to organise one of the future ESB main congress events
and wish to prepare and submit a bid, please read the attached procedural notes.

18th Congress of the ESB

The 18th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics
will take place in Lisbon, Portugal on 1st to 4th July 2012.

Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, is a beautiful, historic city on the Atlantic Ocean. Lisbon has been a point of cultural interchange and encounter for many centuries for visitors and people coming from all over the world. It is a safe and pleasant city where delegates and their companions will feel at ease and will be very well received. Lisbon has a very good weather, in July is mostly sunny and dry, with mildly hot temperatures between 16°C to 30°C. Lisbon location and airport infrastructures make it easily accessible to visitors from all parts of the world. The conference will be held at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), the Engineering School of the Technical University of Lisbon, and organized by an experienced team from IST chaired by Paulo Fernandes, João Folgado and Miguel Silva.

All up-to-date information can be obtained at the congress website: www.esbiomech2012.org

17th Congress of the ESB

The 17th Congress of the ESB in 2010 was held in Edinburgh Scotland, UK. 5-8 July.

The 2010 meeting covered all the ESB’s traditional core topics, and also included emerging research areas in which much new and exciting biomechanics research is taking place.
A pre-course was part of the programme offering advise and experience by various experts in certain areas of biomechanics applications: Innovative methods for the generation and validation of musculoskeletal models / Arterial Mechanics / Medical Image analysis / Muscle Mechanics.
Various plenary sessions addressed current “hot topics” in biomechanics research, and provided valuable insight into the ever-increasing importance of collaborative research, interdisciplinary programs, EU funding opportunities and biomechanical education programmes.

Programme Committee
James Cunningham
William Eason
Peter Hoskins
Hamish Simpson
Mark Taylor
Amy Zavatsky
Programme Leaders
Dan Bader
Elizabeth Tanner
Yiannis Ventikos
Laoise McNamara
James Cunningham
Peter Hoskins
Hamish Simpson
Mark Taylor
Amy Zavatsky
Peter Zioupos
Local Organising Team
Bob Carr & Arlene Sievwright
CPD - Office of Lifelong Learning
The University of Edinburgh
11 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh, EH8 9LW
Telephone: +44 (0) 131 651 1819
Fax: +44 (0) 131 651 1746
email: cpd@ed.ac.uk

16th Congress of the ESB

The 16th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics took place in Lucerne (Switzerland) on July 6 - 9, 2008, and was a resounding success. The meeting was organised by the MEM Research Center - ISTB at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and attracted more than 600 abstracts on diverse topics spanning the whole spectrum of the biomechanics field. You can find a report and pictures from the meeting here.

ESB-2009 Workshop: Movement Biomechanics and Sport

The ESB-2009 Workshop took place on 7-9 June 2009 in Zurich, Switzerland, on the topic of Movement Biomechanics and Sport.

The workshop was structured into the following themes:

Introduction to the movement of the human body: Movement and loading during activities and the consequences on the musculoskeletal system, with a focus on soft tissue.
Material response – mechanical effects of loading: The effects of movement and loading on the entire musculoskeletal system, with a focus on soft tissue. What causes health problems, what can be tolerated?
System adaptation – long term effects of loading: Longterm effects of load, adaptation of material (micro), development of injury, interventions and therapies (macro).

A report on the presentations and awards that took place at the workshop is contained in the Autumn 2009 newsletter: http://www.esbiomech.org/Section/newsletter