On behalf of the Education Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies we welcome you to this educational course that combines a great variety of neurosurgical topics.

Among the numerous educational activities of the WFNS, the courses of the Education Committee reflect the Federation’s commitment to expand neurosurgery worldwide; in the same time they reflect the desire of the local organizers to contribute to the educational activities of their Neurosurgical Society and to demonstrate the scale reached in delivering neurosurgical care in their home countries. The courses of the WFNS Education Committee are indeed well selected educational projects that are limited in number in order to maintain their traditional high level.

This course held in the beautiful city of Varna located on the western Black Sea coast represents not only a continuation of WFNS education projects but a mixture of great scientific program and social networking in a special geographic and historical background. We are happy to share with you three

wonderful days, which, we are sure, are going to remain in the history of the WFNS. In the same time, we invite you to take full advantage of the high knowledge and expertise matured by the foreign and local faculty members.