Brief history of the event

The BBBB International Conferences have been initiated under the auspices of EUFEPS by the joint proposal of four founder countries’ associations: the Estonian Academical Society of Pharmacy and the Finnish Pharmaceutical Society (Baltic), the Hungarian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences (Balaton), the Slovenian Pharmaceutical Society (Bled), and the Turkish Pharmaceutical Technology Scientists’ Association (Bosphorus) and have been decided to organize conferences biennially on the shore of a lake or on the seacoast of founder organization countries. The main purposes were to support young, bright and future promising scientists from these regions, to create close scientific contacts between founding and participant countries’ scientists and to share the state-of-the art level information during scientific program covering all important aspects of the pharmaceutical sciences. These goals were successfully implemented in the organization of three past conferences: 1st BBBB Balaton International Conference in Siofok jointly organized by Hungary and Slovenia in 2005; 2nd BBBB Baltic International Conference in Tartu jointly organized by Estonia and Finland in 2007 and 3rd BBBB Bosphorus International Conference on Pharmaceutical Sciences in Antalya organized by Turkish Pharmaceutical Technology Scientists’ Association in 2009. Abstracts were published as a Supplement of European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.