The E.B.O. (European Board of ophthalmology) was set up to homogenise ophthalmological practices in Europe and bring them up to the highest standards by awarding a European diploma. Each year many young ophthalmologists take this exam which is held during the annual congress of the S.F.O. (French Society of Ophthalmology). In 2015, 641 candidates from 32 different countries got together in Paris to sit this international exam. Théa has supported this organisation from its creation.


 

Since 2014, a group of young doctors have organised the European Meeting of Young Ophthalmologists. Théa has supported this initiative since the first meeting.


 

Théa has joined forces with the University of Auvergne to provide the ophthalmology department of the Gabriel-Montpied teaching hospital in Clermont-Ferrand, with an ultra-modern surgery training tool.

In the framework of this partnership, ophthalmologists from developing countries are welcomed at the university by the Théa Foundation or the Auvergne University Foundation and receive intensive high-quality surgical training. This is an essential mission when we know that there are certain areas of the world, for example sub-Saharan Africa, where blindness is a silent tragedy and where there is only one cataract surgeon per 1 million inhabitants.

One of the two priorities of the Fondation Théa  is to enable doctors and nurses from French-speaking and Portuguese-speaking Africa to follow training courses either in their own country or in the best French or international ophthalmological departments, then to put this acquired experience into practice to directly benefit local populations.