Federation of European Microbiological Societies

Events

• Coordinate the development of the scientific programme for our flagship event, FEMS MICRO: Congress & Exhibition (typically 2000+ participants, including 130+ speakers and approx. 1500 poster presenters).
• Coordinate abstract submissions, peer review, topic allocation, and programme scheduling using abstract-management platform.
• Support the design of innovative and balanced scientific programmes in collaboration with the Programme Committee and Senior staff.
• Support in facilitating committee workflows, including agendas, content briefings and meeting minutes.
• Contact (keynote) speakers and suggesting cutting-edge topics and people to present at our events.
• Track key performance indicators, such as abstract submission and evaluation results in close collaboration with the Events Manager for programme promotion and reporting.
• Identify opportunities to reuse content for other FEMS activities and create synergies with FEMS publishing, in collaboration with the Journals publishing team.
• Assist with other events-related logistics.

Events Programme Officer