Welcome to CIOCV'2024 - 21st Edition of the International Congress of Optometry and Vision Sciences 2024

Dear Colleagues,

The International Congress of Optometry and Vision Sciences (CIOCV) celebrates its twenty first edition. We started in 2004 at building 1 of the Gualtar Campus of the University of Minho with six sponsors and just over 200 participants. Thanks to all of you, the CIOCV has become a national and international reference for continuing education in Optometry and Vision Sciences.

The realization of the 21st edition is undoubtedly an important milestone that we intend to celebrate. We have redefined some concepts of the CIOCV, making it more modern and appealing, but with the same scientific rigor as always. We will be at the Espaço Vita, in the center of the city of Braga, a welcoming and uniquely beautiful space, and for the first time, the event will take place at the end of September.

The contents of this edition are diverse and aim to cover areas such as neuro-optometry, binocular vision, corneal dystrophies, among other topics, while also promoting and highlighting the scientific research work carried out in various national and international research centers.

We are preparing everything so that this 21st edition of the CIOCV will be the meeting point for the sharing of reference science. We want to continue to contribute to making the future of Optometry based on knowledge and clinical practice of excellence.

We will be together soon!