The 23rd MBC Congress Report, Bucharest, Romania, 2025

Building on a long term cooperation with Romanian colleagues and the success of the 2022 Instructional Course entitled "Burns in the XXIst Century: Post-Pandemic Challenges", Bucharest was once again host for an important MBC scientific event.The 23rd Congress of the Euro-Mediterranean Council for Burns & Fire Disasters was held as a joint event with the Third National Interdisciplinary Romanian Burns Conference between 16 th and 18 th October 2025 at the Grand Hotel Bucharest, organized under the leadership of Prof. Dan Enescu and Dr. Raluca Tatar and their team.The event brought together clinicians, researchers, emergency responders, rehabilitation specialists and industry partners.The scientific program encompassed sessions on local burn treatment, comprehensive and surgical burn management, enzymatic debridement of burn wounds, scar management and reconstructive strategies, emergency and critical care of burn patients, rehabilitation, and the underlying pathophysiology of burn injury and healing.Speakers included a mix of local experts and invited international faculty: N. Depetris (Italy), president of the European Burns Association, B. Atiyeh (Lebanon) president of the MBC, J.R. Martnez Mndez (Spain), L. Rosenberg (Israel), I. Mataro (Italy), D. Baldassarre (Italy), G. Frunza (United Kingdom), E. Coeugniet (Canada).There were also some online interventions from J. Meirte (Belgium), and E. Charbonney (Canada).The event enjoyed excellent attendance, with many young colleagues present each day, and the highquality presentations delivered in all sessions stimulated interactive and highly instructive discussions appreciated by all participants.Delegates discussed persistent challenges common to the region: disparities in infrastructure between centres, access to innovative therapies and long-term rehabilitation resources, and the need to support prevention, multi-centre research and quality care improvement.It was an opportunity to reinforce regional and European cooperation for burn care and ensure practical knowledge transfer between specialists of different countries and generations.