WELCOME to the official Web site of the the Union of European Neonatal & Perinatal Societies (UENPS) an organization integrating the national European societies of neonatal and/or perinatal medicine. UENPS represents countries and governing bodies of each national society. Therefore it  is the Society of the European Societies, understood as integration of all societies and not for the single members of the community. Its feeling is to concentrate in a single organization the all European Neonatal and Perinatal Societies.

HISTORY UENPS
UENPS was founded on the 1st July 2006, in Vienna, by proposal of George Simbruner, and registered in Roma April 17, 2008. The 1st Congress of UENPS took place in Roma, November 2008, with 1032 participants. The 2nd went on Istanbul, November 2010, the 3rd will be held in 2012 in Porto. Currently, UENPS include 23 state members with a population of about 456.656.000 people and 6.240.710 birth per year.

MAIN GOALS
To improve healthcare quality in perinatal and neonatal medicine in the European countries by integrating, coordinating and adding national and scientific society’s efforts.
To promote the knowledge of perinatal indicators and to develop recommendations, guidelines, training of the healthcare givers and other tools to achieve the best healthcare for all newborn babies. To make easier the exchange of information in healthcare, training and scientific projects .

SPECIFICITY
To help the European Community about standards of Neonatal and Perinatal Care and rights of the newborns in our countries.

COLLABORATION
UENPS collaborates in the fields of education, research, guidelines to improve quality in perinatal assistance (better practices) with all European and International Societies of Neonatology and Perinatology. EuroNeoNet,  EFCNI (European Foundation for Care of the Newborn Infant)  and ESN (European Society of Neonatology) are recent Partner Societies or Scientific Associate Members of UENPS.

OUR DREAM
Our dream is to achieve a common management of the mother and the newborn to accomplish their rights and to provide them the best care independently where they live. We want to improve the knowledge of perinatal indicators and to develop recommendations, guidelines, training of the healthcare givers and other tools to achieve the best healthcare for all newborn babies.