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Any professional scientific society should maintain impartiality, inclusivity and collegiality, focusing activities on the area of its expertise.
However, adhering to these premises should never replace basic human decency in the face of immoral actions and the need for empathy towards fellow human beings in need. The European Shock Society (ESS) stands for the European spirit of free, respectful and peaceful coexistence of all people.
ESS feels compelled not to remain indifferent but to issue a strong condemnation of the Russian Federation's recent premeditated invasion of sovereign and democratic Ukraine. Although the ESS executive committee fully realizes that such a statement is only symbolic, we collectively believe that symbols do matter.
Above all, however, we wish to express our deepest sympathy to Ukraine and its suffering citizens, with special regard to our fellow Ukrainian scientist colleagues. ESS will do its best to extend its collegial support to the research community of Ukraine within the Society's resources and potential.

The Executive Committee of the European Shock Society

 ESS Statement of Support to the Ukraine.pdf (210 KB)

Dear ESS members,

Despite trying times, the ESS team managed to organize an effective congress. Certainly, we all wished it was a physical presence event with all great perks of personal and groups chats as well as social get-togethers but we have to endure. Kudos to Evangelos Giamarellos-Bourboulis, our 2019-21 ESS president for his overall leadership and especially for a superior scientific program and an excellent line-up of expert-speakers! Thanks go also to the congressworld.gr for ensuring a stable an reliable virtual platform. Thank you all, dear speakers and participants, for your support and presence!

Few quick congress statistics:

• we featured 49 speakers/moderators,
  
• were honored to have 788 registered participants
  
• kept attention of >350 attendees on average per session

The 19th ESS congress was truly international: apart from the EU countries, we were thrilled to have registrations from Argentina, Australia, Brasil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Ecuador, England, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Nepal, Palestine, Peru, Russia, Serbia, South Korea, Sri lanka, St. Lucia, Sudan, Switzerland, Tunisia, UAE, Uruguay, USA and Yemen. We were really happy and proud to have such a diverse crowd!

We thank you all and each one of you very much for making this event so great and see you in Vienna in two years (keep your fingers crossed for it).

The ESS executive team