Welcome to the Venice Ophthalmology Summer School
Don Orione Artigianelli Cultural Center
VOSS is an ambitious cultural project dedicated to young ophthalmologists from all over Europe. It was established in 2013 and resurrected (as the Arab phoenix) in 2023, after the pandemia. This School confirms to be a great opportunity for young ophthalmologists and Faculty members to meet together, to exchange hypothesis, theories and experience, in an unusual and stimulating site, located in Venice.
The harmonization of education in Ophthalmology needs direct daily contact between trainees and teachers to share their previous experiences and to create a network for future cultural opportunities. The Venice Ophthalmology Summer School offers such an experience and new opportunities to young and motivated ophthalmologists.
The VOSS venue is the Don Orione Artigianelli Center, originally a medieval monastery, located in downtown Venice. This Center hosts again the full event (July 5th – 11th, 2026). Venice is one of the most multicultural, multiethnic and multireligious cities in the world. A place where languages, cultures and religions meet since more than 1500 years. the ideal lopcation for VOSS. VOSS is a cultural project under the patronage of the European Society of Ophthalmology (SOE), the Italian Retina Society (SIR), the GB Bietti Foundation and the Department of Neuroscience of the University of Padova.
Welcome to Venice to all VOSS Faculty members and attendees!
Edoardo Midena – Elisabetta Pilotto
VOSS Organizers – Venice, July 2026
This Summer School is made possible by an unconditioned support from:
Organizing Secretariat
