The meeting was attended by rectors, vice-rectors, deans and deputy deans of universities and veterinary faculties from Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The meeting participants discussed the possibilities of education within various types of joint courses, training and "summer schools", as well as mutual scientific cooperation and exchange of employees and students.
image source: Tomasz Lewandowski
Much attention was paid to practical training of students, both with patients and using clinical simulation laboratories. The meeting participants also discussed the evaluation of veterinary faculties by EAEVE experts.
It was the third meeting of the association in Wrocław; the first took place in 2005 and the second in 2011. Next year it will be organised by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Sarajevo.
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VetNEST is an international organisation founded in 1993 by the universities of Brno, Budapest, Kosice and Ljubljana - its historical roots originate from the university in Vienna. Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences has been a member of the organisation since 1998.