2025 – May 27th
Agenda board Meeting Nordic Fertility Society
| Date: | Tuesday 27 th of May CET 17-19 |
| Location: | Online |
| Invited: | Stina Järvholm (President), Steinunn Thorsteinsdottir (IC), Snorri Einarsson (IC), Niels Fuglede (S), Hans Ivar Hanevik (N), Hanna Savolainen-Peltonen (FI), Leif Bungum (DK), Mette Haug Stensen (N), Siri Lehtonen (SFY), Åsmund Mjøen-Vigeland (NOFAB), Lena Ydenius (SSRM), Janni Vikkelsoe Jeppsen (DFS) |
| Not Present: |
- Chair and secretary of today’s meeting is Stina.
- Adjuster of minutes Hans Ivar.
- Presentation of the board and news from the national societies.
Sweden. New chair for the society is Lena Ydenius. 11/9 there will be a Hot Topic meeting in Sweden about genetics within reproductive medicine. Introduction course (ABC-kursen) 15-16/1,
2026 and annual meeting 16-17/4, 2026.
Finland. There will be an Annual Congress of the European Association of Tissue and Cell Banks in Tampere 12-14/11 and the annual meeting 13-14/3, 2026.
Norway. The annual meeting will take place second week in January 2026. The reproductive course for administrative personnel turned out well.
Denmark. New chair for the society is Janni Vikkelsoe Jeppsen. The 7th of October, the society will have a half day meeting for all members. Annual meeting 2026 is 6-8/3. - Last minutes. Nothing to add to previous protocol.
- Hot topic meeting about micro-TESE is decided to take place at 6-7/11 at Kastrup, DK. Reservation for up to 30 persons has been made. Niels and Leif are making the final touch on the program and are in contact with sponsors. Stina have made the reservation of the venue. The meeting will start Thursday afternoon with roundtable discussions and dinner. Then the scientific program is on Friday (possible hybrid?). The chair of the national societies will send out a save-the-date notice about the event. The final program will be ready early June. We also discuss that this would be a great meeting to have some spin-off meeting off in NFS Reykjavik 2026.
- Congress Iceland 2026. The Harpa congress center is booked for 27-29/8. The congress will start and end by lunch. Snorri has been in contact with an event bureau that will help us with the congress and the details with them will be outlined in September. There will be a local committee, but the board will also assist in making the program. We discussed pros and con with different models for sponsorship. What should be included in different levels and how do we handle the possibility to give a lecture provide by sponsors. We will finalize the model for sponsorship on next board meeting.
Snorri would like the board to send suggestions before 1/7 about topics, lectures etc. We aim to make the program ready early fall and then start to get in contact with possible speakers.
Stina will contact NILS regarding if they want to host a work-shop Thursday morning. Stina will also contact the New England society about if they will attend like “the scotch model” from the past Oslo congress. - Other activities. Janni and Lena will look in to if NFS again should give some pre-courses for the ESHRE certification for nurses/midwifes and embryologist.
- Financial situation. Baker Tilly is ready to take over as treasures, but we haven’t got this solution up and going. Stina, Leif and Janni will handle this question and Stina will contact Astrid as well. The balance at the account is stable.
- Homepage. Still no solution but hopefully this will be solved in connection to the launch of the congress webpage.
- Matters arising. Stina informed about a grant application on how AI is introduced in reproductive care. This is a Nordic group leading this application and we agree that NFS could discuss to be supportive to this initiative if the research become a reality.
Janni brought up the discussion about donor register and the Nordic joint ethical statement in this matter. We agreed that it would be a good idea if NFS made a post in the debate and agreed that Stina, Janni and Hans Ivar should outline a suggestion. - Next bord meeting. We discussed pros and cons in having an on-site board meeting in connection to the hot topic meeting In November. We decided that Stina and Snorri should discuss different solutions of this question and will get back to the board about a plan for board meetings during the fall.