During the past decade Osteopathy in Europe has been expanding at an enormous speed. There is a strong trend towards university validated courses, requiring a constant improvement of the quality of Osteopathic Education.
Most schools are striving for growth and improvement on their own and with limited resources whereas cooperation and exchange can help us to learn from each other and take the profession to a new, academic level together. Based on this idea OsEAN has launched the "Open Forum" conferences for osteopathic Education in 2009: in a cooperative atmoshpere schools are sharing new concepts and best practice - rather than reinventing the wheel again and again in each school and each country.