SYNS courses 2025 are coming!


Registration open:

  • Endoscopy course
  • Spine Symposium
  • Craniotomy course
  • Cervical spine course

Check them out!



SYNS 15th Hands-on Spine Course 2024, Bern SOLD OUT.

Next SYNS course: Microneurosurgery workshop, May 17-18th, Lugano.


SYNS 15th Hands-on Spine Course 2024, Bern

Registration CLOSED


Upcoming 2024 courses, stay tuned...


2024

Welcome to the new Board, Caterina & Nicolas!

The best is yet to come ;)



2023

November 9th, 2023 - Riaz

1st SYNS Pain Management Workshop w/ HFR & UniFR


October 27-28th, 2023 - Bern

9th SYNS Craniotomy Course


October 13-15th, 2023 - Chavannes de Bogis (GE)

14th SYNS Symposium - "Neurovascular"

& 1st SYNS - GlobalNeuro Trauma Course - Neurotrauma | October 12th, 2023

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

This was our last Symposium. It's been a pleasure to have you all with us, it's been a beautiful adventure with a lot of experiences, new people and friends and also fun!

Special thanks go to our sponsors, without them nothing would have been possible!

A huge thank you goes also to the faculty, coming also from abroad for us, for providing such high quality education! It was a honor to have the opportunity to know you and listen to your inspiring talks!


September 7-8th, 2023 - Anatomy Institute, Basel

1st SYNS Neuroendoscopy Course

THANK YOU!

The course was a great success! For the first time in the history of SYNS, the trainees could practice with cranial and spinal endoscopy, which represent a powerful tool for us as neurosurgeons and will develop further in the future. Thanks to the faculty for providing as usual an invaluable teaching, to the sponsors for the immense help and to the Anatomical Institute of Basel for hosting us for the first time! 


June 22nd-23rd, 2023 - SFITS, Geneva

2nd SYNS-SGS Advanced Thoraco-lumbar Spine Course

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

This second edition was again a great event!

A huge thank you goes to the faculty, once more to Marisa Gandìa, coming again this year from Spain representing the EANS Young Neurosurgeons. Thank you also to the participants for showing great commitment, to the sponsors for the support and obviously to SFITS for the great organization!


May 26th, 2023 - HFR, Fribourg

1st Compression Fracture Workshop

THANK YOU!

This was the second "first-timer" of the year, and has been a success!

Thanks to the faculty, to Prof. Maestretti and HFR for hosting us, as well as

to the sponsors for the support!

Last but not least, thanks to Daniele Valsecchi for the big work!

 


May 12-13th, 2023 - USI, Lugano

1st SYNS Microneurosurgery Workshop

THANK YOU ALL FOR PARTICIPATING!

This has been a wonderful experience and a great course, thanks to our great faculty, to UpSurgeOn for the high quality models and to USI for hosting us!

Last but not least, thanks to Caterina Mollica for the huge help!

 


March 17-18th, 2023 - Anatomie Institut, Bern

14th SYNS Basic Lumbar Spine Course

THE FIRST COURSE OF 2023 HAS ENDED! IT WAS A GREAT WAY TO START THE YEAR! THANK YOU ALL!

A big thank you to our faculty and especially to Marisa Gandía, who has come from Madrid bringing her big experience and allowing us to set the first collaboration between EANS and SYNS!

Last but not least, thank you very much to the whole Medtronic team for the organization and to our colleague and friend Cédric Kissling, who helped us a lot coordinating the event!

 


2022


October 28-29th, 2022 - Anatomie Institut, Bern

8th SYNS Craniotomy Course

GREAT COURSE TO END THIS YEAR! THANK YOU EVERYBODY!

OUR TRAINEES HAD TIME TO PRACTICE ON THE BASIC CRANIAL APPROACHES THANKS TO THE FANTASTIC LECTURES AND ADVICE FROM OUR GREAT FACULTY, OF COURSE ALL THANKS TO THE SUPPORT OF OUR SPONSORS!


October 7-9th, 2022 - Mövenpick Hotel, Basel

13th SYNS Symposium - Neuro-oncology

WHAT A SYMPOSIUM HAS BEEN! THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR COMING!

WE HAD SOME EXTRAORDINARY LECTURES PROVIDED FROM A TOP-CLASS FACULTY, GREAT DISCUSSIONS AND SOME LOVELY TIME TOGETHER!

THANK YOU ALSO AS ALWAYS TO OUR SPONSORS FOR THE INCREDIBLE SUPPORT!


SYNS-SGS 1st Hands-On Course: Advanced thoraco-lumbar spine

August 24-25th, 2022 - SFITS Institute, Geneva

THANKS TO THE PARTICIPANTS, TO THE FACULTY FOR PROVIDING SUCH AN EXCELLENT TRAINING AND TO OUR PARTNERS AND TO THE SFITS TEAM FOR MAKING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE!


SYNS 14th Spine Hands-On Course: Basic Cervical Spine

June 17-18th, 2022 - Anatomy Institute, Bern

THANKS TO THE PARTICIPANTS FOR COMING, TO THE FACULTY FOR PROVIDING SUCH A HIGH QUALITY TEACHING AND OBVIOUSLY TO OUR PARTNERS AND TO THE TEAM OF THE ANATOMY INSTITUTE FOR MAKING THE WHOLE POSSIBLE!


SYNS 13th Spine Hands-On Course: Basic Lumbar Spine

March 18-19th, 2022 - Anatomy Institute, Bern

 

 

 

THANKS TO ALL THE PARTICIPANTS FOR COMING, TO THE FACULTY FOR PROVIDING SUCH A HIGH QUALITY TEACHING AND OBVIOUSLY TO MEDTRONIC FOR MAKING ALL POSSIBLE!

  

Go and see some pictures here


2021



2020

Unfortunately, due to the current COVID-19 situation, all the SYNS courses will be postponed to 2021. Details will follow. We thank you for your understanding.



2019