360° Winterthur Symposium

Friday Nov. 13, 2026 - Saturday Nov. 14, 2026

Dear colleagues

The 360° Winterthur Symposium reimagines care as integrated, collaborative, and truly person-centred – with patients as equal partners at the heart of every conversation. Through powerful personal stories, we uncover how care is experienced and connect individual journeys to the pressing challenges of our time, from prevention to sustainability. 

Voices from education, practice, research, policy, and funding come together to learn with, from, and alongside one another. Creative and interactive formats open up space for dialogue, co-creation, and bold new perspectives.

Key questions

• How can we shape education and collaboration where patients are true partners from the very beginning? 
• What models unlock connected, interprofessional, and person-centred care? 
• How can lived experiences inspire and transform care, education, and research? 
• Which innovative formats spark dialogue, shared learning, and fresh perspectives?
• How can we advance prevention and climate health together with patients?

We look forward to seeing you.

Prof. Dr. Marion Huber
Head of the Interprofessional Teaching and Practice Unit

Keynotes

Call for Abstracts

We warmly invite you to submit your ideas, projects, and perspectives and to become part of a vibrant, interprofessional exchange.

We are looking for contributions that explore innovative approaches to integrated, collaborative, and person-centered care—across practice, research, education, policy, and co-creation with patients. Submissions that incorporate personal stories, participatory approaches, and creative formats are especially encouraged.

Topics of Interest

• Future-oriented education: Integrating patients as educators and partners from the outset 
• Interprofessional collaboration: Models for working together on equal footing 
• Practice-oriented synergies: Strengthening collaboration between providers and users 
• Patient perspective: Integrating narratives and lived experiences into care, education, and research 
• Innovative formats: Poetry, science slam, storytelling, workshops, and beyond 
• Prevention & climate: Linking person-centered care with prevention and the health impacts of climate change 
• Co-creation: Actively involving patients in developing solutions

Submit abstract and decision process

• Formats: Short presentations (pptx), Workshops, Posters (creative formats welcome), Science or Poetry Slam, Other innovative formats 
• Length: max. 500 words 
• Structure: Introduction, Methods (if applicable) or project description, Results (if applicable), Discussion or guiding questions 

Abstracts can be submitted via the online form until Sunday, July 5, 2026. You will be notified of the acceptance of your submission by August 15, 2026, to the email address you provided during registration.

• Submit abstracts here

Participation fee

Included in the package are lunch and refreshments during breaks, conference materials and a certificate of participation (no dinner, no hotel accommodation).

Early bird (until June 30, 2026)
CHF 250 Full price (for both days)
CHF 150 Full price (for one day)
CHF 180 Reduced* (two days)
CHF 125 Reduced* (one day)

Regular (until Oct 21, 2026)
CHF 300 Full price (for both days)
CHF 180 Full price (for one day)
CHF 200 Reduced* (two days)
CHF 150 Reduced* (one day)

Students
CHF 100 Full price (for both days)
CHF 65 Full price (for one day)

Regular price and on-site ticket price 
After registration deadline: from October 22 to November 13, 2026 
CHF 400.- full price (for two days)
CHF 225.- full price (for one day)
This price applies to all categories (excluding ZHAW Bachelor students, for whom the price remains the same)

*Reduction for 

• Employees ZHAW School of Health Sciences
• Interprofessional.Global
• IP-Health
• Pan European Academy for Interprofessional Sciences
• BFH – Institute for Collaborative Practice and Leadership in Healthcare

Registration

Please register for the event.

• Registration

Registration is binding. Regular registration deadline: October 21, 2026

Invoice dispatch
You will usually receive the invoice for the symposium around 3 weeks before the event. Please note that the invoice will be issued in CHF.

General Terms and Conditions (GTC)

• General Terms and Conditions (GTC)

Continuing Education Points

The symposium is accredited.

• Ergotherapie-Verband Schweiz EVS

Sponsoring

We are pleased to offer you various sponsorship packages for the 360° Winterthur Symposium. As a sponsor, you have the opportunity to present your company and network with participants at the event. From Bronze to Platinum, we offer different packages that are individually tailored to your needs. Register now and secure your place!

• Registration for sponsorship

Hotel recommendations for Winterthur

• Sorell Hotel Krone 3-stars Superior Hotel
• Park Hotel Winterthur 4-stars-Hotel
• Plaza Hotel Winterthur 4-stars-Hotel
• Hotel Loge Winterthur 3-stars-Hotel
• Banana City Winterthur 4-stars-Hotel
• Hotel Wartmann 3-stars-Hotel