Enable Conference

Initially funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme, the first four ENABLE conferences were held in the cities hosting the headquarters of the four entities leading the project: the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) in Barcelona, Spain; RadboudUMC in Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Seville, Spain; and the Scuola Europea di Medicina Molecolare (SEMM), in Milan, Italy. In this new cycle of conferences, FEBS, IUBMB and the four core ENABLE institutions have joined forces to share ENABLE best practices with other international research institutions. To this end, in addition to the four core research centres, other institutions can apply to become associated centres and host one of the future events. In 2024, the FEBS-IUBMB-ENABLE conference was hosted by Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, marking the first edition outside Europe. 4th edition of the conference that happened in September, 2025 was held in Glasgow, Scotland, hosted by the University of Glasgow and the Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute. We are delighted to announce that the FEBS-IUBMB-ENABLE 2026 conference will take place in Krakow, Poland! Hosted by the Jagiellonian University, this edition will explore how integrative, cross-disciplinary research is reshaping the future of life sciences.