In the last newsletter sent out in June, we celebrated the 100^th patient registered in the database. Since then, the patient numbers in the database have already doubled! On the 5^th of November 2022, the 200^th patient was entered by Dr. Ognyan Mladenov from Alexandrovska University Hospital in Sofia (Bulgaria).

This significant achievement was only possible because of all participating hospitals! Thank you very much for your ongoing support.

Adding to the happy news, we are now already eight countries from all over Europe, actively entering patients into the database. On top of these eight active countries, we have five more countries in which at least one center has obtained a positive Ethics’ approval. In an additional six countries we are working on the submission to the Ethics’ committees.

As announced last time, the EU-ROP project was presented at multiple conferences over the summer months. The biggest trip was to Dubai for the 5^th World ROP congress, where EU-ROP was presented as an invited talk. And we received overwhelming feedback from participants.

Also, it was very nice to meet so many project participants at the EPOS conference in Munich only a few weeks ago at the beginning of October.

Last but not least, we would like to bring your attention to the fact that November 17^th is World Prematurity Day (WPD)! 

WPD is a day dedicated to the smallest newborns and shall raise awareness to that topic and spread information among the public. If you want to celebrate it and raise attention to this important topic, please feel free to use materials from the European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (EFCNI), the founder of this day: https://www.efcni.org/activities/campaigns/wpd/wpdmaterial/