Networking

Join us in the myUEG Community area where you can meet and interact with colleagues, experts and mentors from around the globe. 

Connect via both moderated and open chats, stop by the Young GI Booth or Women in GI Corner, trust your gut with a cooking class, relax your gut with a yoga class, and so much more.

Enjoy exploring it – we’ve got lots of activities! 

Young GI Mentoring & CV Check 

Participate in our small-group video chats for delegates up to age 40. Established experts in different fields of digestive healthcare will share their experience and help professionalise your CV. 

Online pre-registration is required. Young delegates who register for UEG Week by September 20 will receive a registration link on September 21.

• Mentoring
• CV Check

Career Development to Go: Tips & Takeaways 

Every day from 13:30-14:30 CEST you can exchange ideas with senior experts and your peers. Get tips to enhance your career and to go abroad, discover UEG volunteer opportunities, and learn more about the latest guideline tools to support your clinical practice. 

• Career skills for young GIs: What it takes to have a successful career
• We love this shit: Opportunities to grow with UEG
• Guideline implementation: Common difficulties and how to overcome them

Young GI Speed Networking

You have half an hour on Sunday, Monday & Tuesday evening to meet up to 5 randomly assigned young colleagues from all over the world via video chat.

Form new connections, friendships and plans to connect again at another UEG event!

Research over Lunch: Research Funding Tips

Many prominent researchers in the field of Digestive Health accelerated their careers with European projects. These researchers will be online every day at lunchtime to provide insights and answer questions on how to successfully apply for European grants. 

• The European Research Council
• The European Innovative Medicines Initiative
• Apply for Horizon Europe’s collaborative grants

Career Chat & Women Networking  

Gain professional and personal insights from a female perspective in the career chat on Monday. Network with peers in small groups to establish contacts for future collaborations in the Women in GI Networking chats.  

• Career Chat: English and careers in medicine and science – breaking through the language barrier
• The power of Questions - Women Networking

Engage with UEG Journal Editor in Chief

Discuss articles from the UEG Journal COVID collection with Editor in Chief, Joost P.H. Drenth! Ask your questions directly to Joost, associate editors and authors of accepted Journal articles in order to gain unique insights, advice and takeaways for your next publication.

• Why I wrote a UEG Journal article: Boost your paper’s chances for publication
• What have we learned from COVID-19: Lessons from UEG Journal 

No guts no glory: Learn with UEG Education 

It takes guts to dive headfirst into your education! Be there and be excited to meet our UEG E-learning Team.

Find out about their professional experiences and hear first-hand what their top learning recommendations are. Voyage through the adventures of the E-learning editors, gain insights into their work and get personal tips on how to best steer your educational journey using UEG resources (Online courses, Mistakes in… and more). This will be 30 minutes well spent!

Join in on the fun Sunday or Monday, 11:30-12:00 CEST.