The EYES Clinical Observership Programme (COP) enables ESE Early Career Investigators from Europe to grow and learn during a short, one-month stay in an endocrine centres of special interest. These are referred to as an “Observership" due to different European laws.
Several Observerships are awarded each year, including three funded by ESE (COP and ROP) amounting to €1,000 each, and others that are self-funded by participants.
In 2024 we opened the Clinical Observership Programme to applications from early career investigators from our Associate Partner Society: Sociedade Brasileira de Endocrinonologia e Metabologia (SBEM). If this pilot for a new 'bilateral' Clinical Observership (BOP) works well, we hope to extend it to our other Associate Partner Societies in due course. The same eligibility criteria apply. See centre number 22 in the drop-down menu below.
In October 2024, ESE representatives took part in the 36th Brazilian Congress of Endocrinology and Metabolism. You can find out more about the collaboration and B.O.P. lead Professor Cesar Boguszewski here.
Applications are now closed as of the 10th March 2025. Applications will open for 2026 on 8 December 2025.
Map of the Centres for the 2025 Observerships
See 26 centres in Europe and one in South America that are participating in this programme.
- Centre of Special interest in Adrenal endocrinology, University Hospital Zagreb, Croatia. Mentor: Professor Darko Kaštelan.
- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Munich, Germany. Mentors: Professor Martin Reincke with Professor Nicole Reisch.
- Centre of Special Interest in Menopause: Aretaeion Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Mentor: Professor Irene Lambrinoudaki.
- Centre of Special Interest in Andrology: Papageorgiou Hospital, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Mentor: Professor Dimitrios G. Goulis.
- Centre of Special Interest in Andrology and sexual medicine, University of Florence, Italy . Mentor: Professor Linda Vignozzi.
- Unit of Endocrinology - Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy. Mentor: Professor Manuela Simoni.
- Centre of Special Interest for Neuroendocrine tumours, Federico II University Hospital, Naples, Italy. Mentor: Professor Anamaria Colao.
- Center of Special Interest for Obesity and Metabolic Diseases (CIBO), Federico II University Hospital, Naples, Italy. Mentor: Assistant Professor Giovanna Muscogiuri
- Centre of Special Interest for pituitary diseases, University Hospital, Novara, Italy. Mentor: Professor Flavia Prodam
- Centre of Special Interest in Diabetes, “Gemelli” Hospital, Rome, Italy. Mentor: Professor Pontecorvi Alfredo
- University of Turin - Department of Medical Sciences Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Gender incongruence, andrology and endocrinological gynecology, Turin, Italy. Mentor: Professor Ezio Ghigo
- Centre of Special Interest in Neuroendocrinology, Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia. Mentor: Associate Professor Dragana Miljic
- Centre of Special Interest in Diabetic Foot: St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK. Mentor: Dr. Vassiliki Bravis
- National Centre for Infertility and Endocrinology of Gender, Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, University Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia . Mentor: Senior Research Associate Ljiljana Marina
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London. UK. Mentor: Professor Ahmed Yousseif
- Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology at the Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Graz, Austria. Mentor: Professor Barbara Obermayer-Pietsch
- Centre for Endocrinology at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. Mentor: Professor Marta Korbonits
- Institut Cochin, Paris, France. Mentor: Professor Jerome Bertherat
- Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon university, Endocrinology Department, Reference Centre for Rare Pituitary Diseases, Lyon, France. Mentor: Professor Gerald Raverot
- Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Isotope Therapy, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland. Mentor: Professor Marek Bolanowski
- University Hospital Basel, Switzerland. Mentor: Professor Mirjam Christ-Crain. More about the centre and the project here.
- Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy. Mentors: Professor Gherardo Mazziotti and Professor Andrea Gerardo Antonio Lania
- Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland. Mentor: Professor Marek Ruchala
- National reference centre for endocrine and metabolic diseases - SEMPR, Curitiba, Brazil. Mentor: Professor Cesar Luiz Boguszewski
- Department of Endocrinology, La Conception Hospital, Marseille, France. Mentor: Professor Frederic Castinetti. More about the centre and project here.
- Department of Endocrinology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain. Mentor: Professor Mónica Marazuela. More about the centre and project.
- Department of Endocrinology at the Jagiellonian University – Collegium Medicum in Kraków Professor Aleksandra Gilis-Januszewska. More about the centre and project here.
Applications for 2025 Observership Grants are now open. In addition to completing an application form you will need to provide the following:
- The names of your two preferred centres of interest from the list and your field of interest (you may be assigned to your second preference if the first is unavailable).
- Two letters of recommendation: one from a mentor and the other from the Head of Department
- CV (one page) and motivation letter (max 250 words)
- Agreement to the COP terms and conditions document
- Current ESE membership number
Please read the application documents and terms and conditions carefully before you submit your application.
All applications will be reviewed by the EYES Committee, a representative from the ESE Science Committee (for ROP) and a representative of the Clinical Committee (for COP).
The length of time the applicant has been a member of ESE will be taken into account when evaluating the applications.
First log in to My ESE, then return to complete the application form.
The closing date for applications is 10 March 2025.
- All applicants must be fully paid current ESE Members. Log on to My ESE to Renew or Sign up today.
- Applicants are required to be Internal medicine and/or Endocrinologist and/or Diabetologist in training (specialty or subspecialty).
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Please note: We are unable to provide grants to individuals or institutions currently under sanction according to the consolidated list of financial sanctions targets in the UK, as listed here.
Applications are verified to ensure this is not the case before a grant is awarded. ESE does not permit sanctioned individuals or individuals from sanctioned institutions to attend any ESE events.
The Observership must be completed within 18 months of the award being announced (usually at the ESE EYES Symposium held annually during the European Congress of Endocrinology (ECE).
Successful applicants are required to complete:
- The EYES Observership Logbook: a short notebook with activities during the COP programme.
- Evaluation form of the host centre and applicant. This is to be submitted in the form of a report to ESE.
- A photo during the Observership and a 300-word article describing how the experience benefited them; this will be published in EYES News.
The awarded applicants will receive an official Certificate upon completion of the COP programme, signed by the ESE EYES Committee Chair, the ESE EYES Observership Programmes Lead and the ESE Clinical Committee representative.
Grants are paid to applications after the Observership and on receipt of an expense claim form and supporting receipts or documentation. These need to be submitted to the ESE Office within 6 weeks of the Observership, or the application will be void. Payment to an institution can be made in advance of the meeting or event.
The Observership must be completed within 18 months of the award being announced (usually at the ESE EYES Symposium held annually during the European Congress of Endocrinology (ECE).
Please contact the ESE EYES OP Coordinators for further information.
Please read the Terms and Conditions carefully before your submit your application.
It is responsibility of the individual awardee to apply for any visas they require and ensure they meet all the requirements to enter the country of the Centre they are visiting for the Observership.
- Karel David (Belgium) - Grant Winner
- Elizabeth Nowak (Germany) - Grant Winner
- Magdalena Zgliczynska (Poland) - Grant Winner
- Omneya Abdelkarem (Egypt)
- Sabri Engin Altintop (Turkey)
- Patricia-Maria Anton (Romania)
- Chrysanthi Balodimou (Greece)
- Eirini Biliou (Greece)
- Stefano Boni (Italy)
- Patrick Brito (Brazil)
- Ketevan Chanturishvili (Georgia)
- Kyle Cilia (Malta)
- Giulia Cordenos (Italy)
- Leonardo Dalla Valentina (Italy)
- Mirjana Dukic (Croatia)
- Sabine Upmale-Engela (Latvia)
- Prethivan Pillai Gopalakrishnan (United Kingdom)
- Naciye Guduk Sirvan (Turkey)
- Zvezdana Jemuovic (Serbia)
- Artemis Kyriakidou (Greece)
- Tinatin Kutchukhidze (Georgia)
- Diana-Simina Luca (Romania)
- Francesca Mangini (Italy)
- Tiberiu Manole (Romania)
- Marta Marino (Italy)
- Elena Diana Martiniuc (Romania)
- Carolina Monteiro Antunes (Portugal)
- Marinescu Baleanu Maria Cristina (Romania),
- Teodora Nastasa (Romania)
- Alfredo Pinheiro Neto (Brazil)
- Simina Plesca (Romania)
- Michela Sibilla (Italy)
- Vasiliki Venetsanaki (Greece)
- Radulescu Vlad (Romania)
- Carmen Zurera (Spain)
- Aspasia Manta (Greece) - Grant Winner
- Olga Papalou (Greece) - Grant Winner
- Víctor José Simón Frapolli (Spain) - Grant Winner
- Raluca Bocai (Romania)
- Carlos Casado Cases (Spain)
- Flavia Costanza (Italy)
- Aleksandra Czapla-Iskrzycka (Poland)
- Teodor Dumitras (Romania)
- Alberto Gobbo (Italy)
- Valentina Griseta (Italy)
- Madalina Elena Iftimie (Romania)
- Nauman Jadoon (Scotland, UK)
- Liisa Kullamaa (Finland)
- Özge Özer (Turkey)
- Iulia Alexandra Pirga (Romania)
- Serena Anna Ravelli (Italy)
- Maria Cristina Sanchez Chiriboga (Spain)
- Vasiliki Siampanopoulou (Greece)
- Marcela Silva (Brazil)
- Derya Sema Yaman Kalender (Turkey)
- Jon Yoldi Urdiroz (Spain)
- Anastasia Armeni, University of Turin, Italy – Grant Winner
- Alba Hernández Lázaro, University of Florence, Italy – Grant Winner
- Zvezdana Jemuovic, Federico II University Hospital, Italy – Grant Winner
- Zeliha Yarar, University Hospital Zagreb, Croatia
- Ilaria Bonaventura, University Hospital Munich, Germany
- Ketevan Lomidze, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Simona Gabriela Duta-Ion, Centre of Special Interest for pituitary diseases, University Hospital, Italy
- Mia Manojlovic, Centre of Special Interest in Neuroendocrinology, Italy
- Maria Mathiopoulou, University of Athens, Greece
- Ana Maria Moyano Sanchez, Centre of Special Interest in Diabetes, “Gemelli” Hospital
- Leonardo Dalla Valentina, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Iulia Alexandra Pirga, Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Serbia
- Ioanna Balla (Germany), St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK
- Selvihan Beysel, Centre of Special Interest in Diabetes, “Gemelli” Hospital, Rome, Italy - Grant Winner
- Marta Borges Canha, Centre of Special interest in Adrenal endocrinology, University Hospital Zagreb, Croatia - Grant Winner
- Mirko Parasiliti Caprino, Centre of Special Interest in Clinical Epidemiology and Endocrinology -
Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands. - Grant Winner
- Nestan Bostoganashvili, Centre of Special Interest in Diabetic Foot: St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College
Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK - Paolo Facondo, Centre of Special Interest in Andrology: Papageorgiou Hospital, Medical
School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Greece. - Irene Gagliardi,
- Gabriela Handzlik, Centre of Special Interest in Andrology and sexual medicine, University of
Florence, Florence Italy. - Adam Maciejewski, Centre of Special Interest for Neuroendocrine tumours, University Hospital,
Naples, Italy - Mia Manojlovic, Centre of Special Interest in Menopause: Aretaeion Hospital, Medical School,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Brett Mansfield, Centre of Special Interest for Neuroendocrine tumours, Erasmus University
Medical Centre of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands - Nino Matas, Centre of Special Interest for pituitary diseases, University Hospital, Novara,
Italy.