Discover the final programme of the congress:
Congress objectives
– to understand and to promote radiation protection culture in all applications and its relation to general safety culture
– to discuss open questions and common challenges and to outline perspectives
– to strengthen the cooperation between professional societies, international organizations, regulators, NGOs, and key players in society
– to develop tools for improving communication between experts, regulators, professionals, patients, and members of the public
Congress topics
- Biological and health effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation
- Radiation measurement and dosimetry
- Fundamentals of radiation protection of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation
- Regulation of the different exposure situations
- Environmental radioactivity and radioecology
- Radiation protection of patients, medical staff, and comforters
- Radiation protection of workers in nuclear, NORM, and other industries, and research
- Radiation protection of the public
- Protection of the environment
- Nuclear safety and security
- Emergencies: Lessons learnt, preparedness and response
- Education in and fostering of radiation protection
- Interaction with society
Programme outline and tentative Schedule
The broad range of Congress topics will encourage discussions of all aspects of radiation protection culture covering ionising as well as non-ionising radiation. Seven plenary sessions will be dedicated to key aspects of the Congress objectives and a total of twenty-seven sessions will be arranged around the plenaries with three sessions in parallel. Oral presentations for the plenaries, will be invited or carefully selected from the submitted contributions. Each parallel session will be introduced by an invited speaker followed by submitted oral presentations. Posters represent an important part of the scientific programme and therefore ample time for poster viewing and discussions among the participants and with the authors is foreseen.
The cross interdisciplinarity of radiation protection culture cover the scientific and ethical basis, value judgement, regulations, practical implementation and the interaction with society.
The programme will address recent findings and on-going research on radiation biology, tissue reactions, stochastic effects (both cancer and non-cancer diseases), the quantification of occupational, public, and medical radiation exposures including both ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, natural and technologically enhanced radioactivity and man-made radionuclides in the environment, as well as all aspects of radioactive waste disposal.
Given the detrimental effects of ionizing radiation, the use of radiation and radioactivity to the benefit of society requires an ethical basis of radiation protection, value judgement and regulations covering the scheme of planned, existing, and emergency exposure situations as set outby the ICRP in its publication 103.
In all exposure situations successful radiation protection requires the practical implementation of its principles and regulations. Special emphasis will be given to radiation protection in the medical field. Practical implementation also includes the education of the next generation of professionals and a world-wide harmonization of radiation protection.
Interaction and communication with society as well as fostering radiation protection will be a focus of the programme.
Associate Societies Forum
An IRPA Associate
Societies Forum will be held at the CICG on Wednesday, June 25 from 9 a.m. until noon.