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ECR touts all time highest attendance ever with over 28,000 visitors

Press releases may be edited for formatting or style | March 12, 2018 ECR European News
Vienna, March 12, 2018 (ECR) – The European Congress of Radiology (ECR) closed a week ago with an impressive growth in attendance, especially noteworthy as it has been the opposite for many big medical meetings lately. The organisers, the European Society of Radiology (ESR), are proud to announce a total onsite participation of 22,059, including a record number of 13,848 professional delegates, which represents an 8% increase compared to ECR 2017, and a total of 8,211 industry participants. In addition, the ECR Online streaming platform counted 6,415 registered viewers that were not present onsite, which marks an increase of 13% compared to last year. This accumulates to the record breaking overall attendance of 28,474.

On top of this, a 10-11% increase in room attendance figures could be seen throughout all days of the congress, with delegates attending sessions a total of 81,621 times.

ECR 2018 was characterised by the introduction of new session formats, new locations, scientific highlights and a booming technical exhibition with more than 300 companies showcasing their latest products.

The new My Thesis in 3 Minutes (MyT3) sessions, where residents and young radiologists presented their thesis' in just three minutes, as well as the Coffee & Talk sessions that offered an open forum for discussion, took off very well and presenters saw themselves facing full rooms throughout each day. Innovating session formats and presenting education and scientific content in the most creative and informative way possible has been one of the ECR's trademarks for years.

Returning attendees to the ECR will have noticed that the event keeps getting bigger every year. To account for this ongoing development, the ESR decided to take advantage of the area immediately surrounding the main congress building (the Austria Center Vienna), which boasts incredible infrastructure and numerous locations perfectly suited to hosting the diverse range of congress activities. In addition to the Austria Center and the adjacent M-Building, rented from the United Nations, congress attendees were introduced to two new locations, namely the 'Sky High Stage' (Wolke 21) on top of the Saturn Tower and 'the Cube' located in the nearby Donaucity church, with all buildings together creating one big 'ECR City'. Also new this year was the 'Swiss Village' in front of the main congress building, where participants braved the cold while enjoying various Swiss delicacies and matching each other at games of ice stock sports.

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