To member Associations of IFBLS: 
The time has come to submit your bids for IFBLS World Congresses 2016.
The 2014 Congress will be hosted by TAMT and TSLM in Taiwan and will be held in Taipei.

Management and Council are calling to world-wide friends and colleagues to rally support and place a bid for the 2016 IFBLS World Congresses.
It may seem as though the date is still some time away; however, in terms of preparing for a World Congress this it not such a long time. 
To those countries that have shown an interest and made some informal overtures, we are eager to hear from you again to learn how you are progressing and obtain some insight into your ambitions, aspirations and initial plans for hosting a successful World Congress.

Now is the time to look even further ahead and concentrate on the  year 2016, and continue the momentum in enhancing the profile of the profession of Biomedical Laboratory Science.

For those of you perhaps thinking about hosting a World Congress for the first time please find the complete IFBLS World Congress Hosting and Planning guidelines here. We hope you find these tools useful in your decision-making and of assistance in seeing a World Congress come to fruition.

Good luck and kindest regards,
IFBLS Management and Council