About
We are made up of an active and diverse network of around 30,000 professionals who are committed to advancing microbiology for the benefit of society in the areas of Eco Innovations, Health Horizons, Biotechnology, and Engagement & Growth. Set up in 1974, today we are a growing coalition of 55 Member Societies from 40 countries.
Our commitment is to help support microbiologists do their work, promote the best in microbiology research and knowledge to the world, and bring microbiologists together to share that knowledge: Connecting people. Sharing knowledge.
As a not-for-profit organization, we reinvest our revenues into supporting microbiologists throughout their career through various initiative. We publish and promote scientific research in the FEMS journals and organise events to bring scientists together. Our Members Societies are vitally important to our work, and we seek to support them do their work to jointly advance microbiology.
FEMS MICRO Milan 2025: Congress & Exhibtion
We are currently gearing up for the much anticipated FEMS MICRO 2025: Congress & Exhibition, taking place in Milan, Italy, from 14-17 July 2025.
This biennial event has established itself as the premier meeting for microbiologists, researchers, industry leaders, policymakers, and early career scientists from around the world. FEMS MICRO 2025 promises an experience like no other, taking the best elements from our previous events, while building new top-class approaches to networking and engagement based on our community’s needs.
Strategic framework
Our main goals are to magnify microbial impact in Europe and across the world through the power of microbiology. We execute this mission via research, networking, education and outreach; and we empower our Member Societies to serve the microbiology community.
Our organizational priorities to achieve these goals are outlined in our Strategic Plan 2020-2024: Connecting People-Sharing Knowledge. This document outlines the goals we want to accomplish but also describes the value we place on achieving these in a fair, open and inclusive way. It details the challenges we need to consider as a small not-for-profit society and that our Members and all microbiologists face in the coming years. Our responses are outlined in a series of priorities which we want to achieve, all of which are aimed at promoting microbiology and supporting microbiologists.
We are currently undertaking a series of strategy planning projects to decide on our new strategic plan for 2025 onward, as we mark our 50th year and advance on our mission for the next 50 years.
All but one of the FEMS journals are now fully open access (OA), with one journal, FEMS Microbiology Letters remaining a subscription journal with free-to-publish and OA options. Open access is key to supporting the FEMS mission of disseminating high quality research as widely as possible: when high quality, peer reviewed sound science is open access, anyone, anywhere in the world with an internet connection, can read it.