6th International Ergonomics Conference
ERGONOMICS 2016
Focus on Synergy

15-18 June 2016 Zadar, Croatia

This seminary was held in Sevilla (Spain), on November 27th, 2014. FEES’ Presentation (Sylvain Leduc) was focused to expose the first results about an analysis on the situation of the ergonomists in Europe.

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The Federation of European Ergonomics Societies  welcomes the new board of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA). We thank all the effort made by the outgoing presidency, especially Eric Min-Yang Wang past president.

The new board elected August 2015 is:

Representatives of ETUI and FEES have met in March 2015 with the aim to set up a co-operation between FEES and ETUI in the field of the ergonomic design and use of machines.

A number of research institutes in Australia and New Zealand are willing to extend their hospitality to visiting ergonomists who are in the area for the IEA 2015 conference.

A scientific workshop was organized June 2015 in Lisbon by the Portuguese Ergonomics Association, represented by Teresa Cotrim, co-organized with the Italian Ergonomics Association, represented by Sara Albolino, and supported by FEES, represented by Pascal Etienne.

Approaching the IEA2018 Congress the principal aim was starting a debate among professionals of different fields about the more effective way to develop creativity in practice, through the use of ergonomics. The main challenges of this workshop were to question the participants about:

19^th Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2015) to be held from 9-14 August 2015, Melbourne.

The conference will represent a major gathering of experts involved in ergonomics and human factors from around the world and will act as an international meeting of ground-breaking new techniques with solid scientific background.

According to ESENER-2, the 2nd most frequent risk factor is tiring or painful positions, including sitting for long periods, and the third is repetitive hand or arm movements.

The 25^thanniversary of the European Ergonomist registration was celebrated in Helsinki November 2016. Bernard Dugué, president of the Centre for Registration of European Ergonomists (CREE) announced that the number of registered ergonomist has raised over 450 from 19 European country.