The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) is dedicated to all issues relevant to the field of clinical nutrition and metabolism and promotes: • basic and clinical research • basic and advanced education • organization of consensus statements about clinical care and care quality control The aims of ESPEN are to encourage the rapid diffusion of knowledge and its application in the field of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism to the prevention, screening, assessment and correct treatment of disease-related malnutrition (DRM). ESPEN sponsors a journal and for which it assumes editorial responsibility. It promotes undergraduate and postgraduate education in the field of human nutrition (including basic, applied and clinical nutrition) through ambitious programs that includes the LLL-ESPEN program, clinical guidelines, courses, symposia and annual congresses. It promotes experimental and clinical research. It is a non-state actor affiliated with WHO-Europe.