5^th June 1980 - BORSTEL, Germany FR

chairman: Gertrud MEISSNER

click here to view the Introduction of the original ESM Manual illustrating the philosophy of ESM

2-3^rd June 1981 - FIRENZE, Italy

chairman: Giuseppe CAROLI

click here to view the original statutes of ESM

24^th June 1982 - ANTWERP, Belgium

chairman:  Stefaan PATTYN

28-30^th August 1983 - COPENHAGEN, Denmark

chairman: Mogens MAGNUSSON

(the congress was followed by the Conference of the International Working Group on Mycobacterial Taxonomy, 31.8-2.09)

 15-16^th June 1984 - PARIS, France

chairman: Hugo DAVID

25-26^th September 1985 - CORDOBA, Spain

chairman: Manuel CASAL

(the congress was followed by the 1^st International Symposium on Mycobacteria of Clinical Interest,

27-28.06)

3-4^th July 1986 - ST GALLEN,  Switzerland

chairman: Thomas GIGER

2-4^th September 1987 - ZEIST, Netherlands

chairman: Dick G. GROOTHUIS

4-6^th July 1988 - LISBON, Portugal

chairman: Jorge TORGAL GARCIA

4-7^th July 1989 - WYE, UK

chairman: P. Antony JENKINS

25-26^th June 1990 - STOCKHOLM, Sweden

chairman: Gunilla KÄLLENIUS

(the congress was followed by the 1^st International Conference on the Pathogenesis of Mycobacterial Infections, 27-29.06)

1-4^th July 1991 - PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia

chairman: Milan KUBIN

(click here to read a Personal memory by M. Kubin)

30^th June-2^nd July 1992 - REGENSBURG, Germany

chairman: Ludmila NAUMANN

28-30^th June 1993 - KUOPIO, Finland

chairman: Marja-Leena KATILA

26-30^th June 1994 - ATHENS, Greece

chairman: Nikolas J. LEGAKIS

4-7^th June 1995 - PISA, Italy

chairman: Giuseppe CAROLI

5-8^th June 1996- PARIS, France

chairman: Veronique VINCENT

17-18^th June 1997 - CORDOBA, Spain

chairman: Manuel CASAL

(the congress was followed by the 2^nd International Symposium on Mycobacteria of Clinical Interest,

19-20.06)

22-25^th July 1998 - LISBON, Portugal

chairman: Jorge TORGAL GARCIA

4-7^th July 1999 - LUCERNE, Switzerland

chairman: Gaby E. PFYFFER

2-5^th July 2000 - VIENNA, Austria

chairman: Roja WEJBORA

1-4^th July 2001 - BERLIN, Germany

chairman: Hans J. WOLF

23-26^th June 2002 - DUBROVNIK, Croatia

chairman: Vera KATALINIC-JANKOVIC

29^th June-2^nd July 2003 - TARTU, Estonia

chairman: Annika KRUUNER

27-30^th June 2004 - ALGHERO, Italy

chairman: Giovanni FADDA

26-29^th June 2005 - ISTANBUL, Turkey

chairman: Meltem UZUN

9^th-12^th July 2006 - LONDON, UK

chairman: Francis DROBNIEWSKI

1^st-4^th July 2007 - ATHENS, Greece

chairman: Loukia ZERVA

6^th-9^th July 2008 - PLOVDIV, Bulgaria

chairman: Todor KANTARDJIEV

5^th-8^th July 2009 - PORTO, Portugal

chairman: Suzana DAVID

4^th-7^th July 201049 - BLED, Slovenia

chairmen: Matjaž OCEPEK and Manca ŽOLNIR