Objetivos docentes: In 2015, the European Society of Radiology (ESR) reached a new record of 63,603 individual members from 156 countries, thereby confirming its position as the world’s biggest radiological society. Within the ESR, there are 44 European national societies, 16 European subspecialty and allied sciences societies and 43 non-European national societies. With 2,858 ESR members in 2015, SERAM ranks 4th in the ESR European country statistics. The number of European Congress of Radiology (ECR) attendees from Spain has also increased in recent years, reaching 531 in 2015, out of a total of 25,540 participants. Spain has also been among the top 4 countries regarding total abstract submissions in recent years, reaching as many as 578 for ECR 2016.

Discusión: Spain is a very important partner for ESR, and is represented in the ESR Executive Council by ESR President Luis Donoso (2015-2016) and Education Committee Chair Laura Oleaga Zufiría (2015-2018). Spanish members in (sub)committees are (as of December 2015): Pablo Rodríguez Carnero (Audit and Standards Subcommittee), Fermín Sáez (Communication & External Affairs Committee), Angel Alberich-Bayarri (eHealth and Informatics Subcommittee), Luis Martí-Bonmatí (European Imaging Biomarkers Alliance Subcommittee), Eliseo Vaño (Radiation Protection Subcommittee) and Carlos Nicolau (WG on Ultrasound). The Spanish delegates in the ESR’s four large committees are: Miguel Souto Bayarri (Education Committee), SERAM President Jose Luis del Cura Rodríguez (National Societies Committee), Eduardo Fraile Moreno (Quality, Safety and Standards Committee) and Joan Carles Vilanova (Research Committee). In addition, Paloma Largo Flores is the Spanish delegate to the Radiology Trainees Forum and Josep Fernández Bayó the EuSoMII delegate to the Subspecialties and Allied Sciences Committee. José Cáceres runs his famous blog `Cáceres Corner’ on http://blog.myesr.org/. Julia Camps Herrero and José Vilar (Scientific Director of the European Diploma of Radiology) are members of the ECR 2016 Programme Planning Committee (PPC). Members of the ECR 2017 PPC are Eva Llopis, José M. García Santos and Marcelo Sánchez. Further, there have been two ECR Presidents (José Ignacio Bilbao 2013 and Francisco Galvez-Armengaud 1975) from Spain. ESR Gold Medallists from Spain are José Cáceres (2013), Javier Lucaya (2004) and Juan Ramon Jiménez (2001). Honorary lecturers from Spain are Luis Martí-Bonmatí (2013), Jesús Prieto Valtueña (2013) and José Cáceres (2011) and César S. Pedrosa (1995). Spain also plays an important role regarding the ESR’s educational activities. SERAM is one of the 66 ESR member societies worldwide who officially supported the European Training Curriculum for Radiology (Level I + II) in 2014 (www.myESR.org/TrainingCurriculum). A Spanish translation will become available online by ECR 2016. Further, one of the ESR’s three learning centres is located in Barcelona together with the office of the European Board of Radiology (EBR – www.myEBR.org), which organises the European Diploma in Radiology (EDiR). So far, 98 Spanish radiologists have already taken this exam and autumn 2015 marked the celebration of the 1000th candidate overall. An important source for the diploma preparation is the ESR’s eLearning platform “Education on Demand” (http://learn.myESR.org), which includes preparatory courses organised by the European School of Radiology (www.myESR.org/esor). One of the ESR’s numerous activities in the field of research is the ESR-founded European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research (www.eibir.org), which supports research networking activities. The ESR continues to be a major stakeholder in EU health policies, with initiatives such as EuroSafe Imaging (www.eurosafe.org), which aims to promote quality and safety in medical imaging. At international level, on November 8, 2015 the fourth International Day of Radiology (IDoR www.internationaldayofradiology.com) organised by ESR, RSNA and ACR was celebrated by 130 societies from 69 countries. Spain was a very active participant. On November 6 lectures were held in Madrid, set up by SERAM, the Sociedad Española de Radiología Pediátrica (SERPE) and the Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer. In summary, the ties of friendship and collaboration between the ESR and SERAM are very strong, and we are confident that both our societies will continue to grow and flourish in the future.