It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 38^th Annual Meeting of the European Underwater and Baromedical Society. The Centre for Hyperbaric Medicine and the University of Belgrade School of Medicine will be very happy to host you in Belgrade, Serbia in September 12^th -15^th 2012.

The Scientific Programme will include invited speakers, oral and poster presentations, and we hope a lot of discussions, in and off formal programme.

For the first time the EUBS Annual Meeting will be preceded by an ECHM Consensus Conference (September 11/12) on: "Organisation of a Clinical Hyperbaric Therapy Centre and Related Health Management Issues", which offers the unique opportunity to participate in both most significant events for the European Hyperbaric Community.

Serbia has connected West with East for centuries - a land in which civilisations, cultures, faiths, climates and landscapes meet and mingle.

It is located in the centre of the Balkan Peninsula, in southeastern Europe. The northern portion belongs to central Europe, but in terms of geography and climate it is also partly a Mediterranean country. Serbia is landlocked but as a Danube country it is connected to distant seas and oceans. The international roads and railway lines, which run through the country's river valleys, form the shortest link between Western Europe and the Middle East.

Belgrade is the capital city of Serbia. It is one of the oldest cities in Europe and has since ancient times been an important crossing of the ways where the roads of eastern and western Europe meet. The city lies on two international waterways, at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, which surround it on three sides. Because of this position, Belgrade is fittingly referred to as the Gateway to the Balkans and the Door to Central Europe.

It does not take long for foreign visitors to Serbia to discover the hospitality, kindness, openness and warmth of the country's residents.

So - welcome to Belgrade!