April 30, 2012 
The Conference will be held in Opatija, Croatia, from 1st to 3rd June, 2012, and its aim is to enable scientific and professional enhancement in the field of optometry of all the interested opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists and other legal and physical persons….
What is special about this Conference is that it is being organised for the first time in this part of Europe and, apart from the scientific and professional topics, the participants will deal also with the problems of legal regulations in this field of activities and with the novelties related to the optometric profession.
The 1st Optometry Conference of Central and South-Eastern Europe will gather presenters and participants from the countries of Central and South-Eastern Europe – Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Rumania, Bulgaria, and other related countries as England, Ireland etc.
The Optometry Conference of Central and South-Eastern Europe should provide an opportunity for the arrival of a large number of opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists and all the other interested parties that are all interconnected by the optometric profession, at affordable participation costs at the Conference.
The Conference topics include:
1. Optical technology,
2. Refractive errors and testing of visual functions,
3. Contact lenses,
4. Eye health,
5. Systemic conditions and the eye,
6. Refractive surgery up to date.
Workshops:
1. Centring of spectacle lenses,
2. Anisometropia – challenge of correction,
3. Keratography,
4. Contact lenses.
Discussion:
Education and competences in the countries of Central and South-Eastern Europe
Taken from: www.blogs.vvg.hr