Annually, WOFAPS selects a major region of the world to host a scientific meeting and workshops as part of our important educational mission forpediatric surgeons and pediatricians.Our objective is to provide “state of the art” information to our colleagues that will benefit the care of children with surgical disorders.This is an important opportunity to bring together pediatric surgeons and pediatricians from Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Mediterranean and near East region. We have outstanding international faculty who have committed their time for state-of-the art lectures as well as two workshops: The advancements in minimal invasive surgery; and the advances in the management of anorectal malformations.