November 2026

ADEE announces Prof Sibylle Vital as President elect

ADEE is pleased to announce that at the ADEE General Assembly held on 16^th October 2026 members appointed Prof Sibylle Vital (Université Paris Cité) as ADEE President Elect 2027. Sibylle graduated from the University of Paris Descartes in 2003 followed by a PhD in Oral Biology at the University of Paris Descartes in 2006 followed by post-doctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco, USA in 2007. She is a full-time Professor of Pediatric Dentistry at University of Paris and has chaired the national coordination group for paediatric dentistry teachers since 2023.​ Within ADEE she has been an active member since 2010. She has served on the review board of the EJDE since 2014. Sibylle is a member of the ADEE Board and has held the position of European Affairs Officer. She has represented ADEE at the CED, FEDCAR and Platform meetings for some years. The ADEE Board looks forward to working with Prof Vital during her term as president 2028-2029. To find out more about the other decisions made at the general assembly read on here.

Update from Nutrition Community of Practice

The findings of the recent ‘Global Survey of Nutrition Education in Dental Schools: Current Practices and Opportunities’ were recently published in the EDJE. The survey of 55 international schools demonstrates that dental schools recognise nutrition's importance yet struggle to deliver adequate education. The publication concludes that there are substantial gaps between nutrition topic coverage and self-reported educational adequacy across dental schools, with the widest gaps in clinically applied competencies. You can read the full open access article at the following link. The authors sincerely thank the participating schools for their input and also the wider members of the Nutrition COP.

ADEE’s Graduating European Dentist taskforce hosts third stakeholder forum

The purpose of these stakeholder meetings is to unpack key elements of the Graduating European Dentist framework, so as to explore areas of guidance and shared position that will help institutions enable a higher quality education provision to our students. This specific meeting focused on three interlinked components:

• Training hours
• Principles of placement, and
• The utility of simulation.

To read more about the stakeholder forum click here.

ADEE Membership Fees 2027

The board approved institutional and associate membership fee for 2027 will be €745 per institution. The Board appreciates this may seem like a considerable increase however rising costs, inter currency fluctuations, increase bank fees and market volatility it is important the membership fees keep pace to ensure we can deliver for our members. While the office has managed these increases internally through competitive procurement etc., the board feels a membership increase is now unavoidable. Rather than have an increase each year, the board decided that this current rate will be fixed for 2027 and 2028 membership and if possible, following a review in late 2028, will also remain in place for 2029.

An Update on the PaFein+ Project: Bringing Pain-Free Dentistry to Dental Schools

Members who attended ADEE Budapest will recall that one of the recipients of the ADEE Haleon Preventative Dentistry in Society Award 2026 was the Erasmus+ plus project entitled PaFein+. This project received considerable interest at the meeting through presentation of a workshop to delegates. Members may be interested in reading more on the PaFein+ concept and how they can host seminars and workshops within their institutions. To read more visit this link.