European Spas Association

Programme: Thalasso online workshop, 21 October 2025

Tuesday, 21 October from 11.00 to 12.30 CET (am) Welcome to the 5th online workshop of the Thalasso Working Group! Participation at the event is free of charge. Please fill-out the Registration form to attend. PROGRAMME 11:00 - 11:10 Welcome address and introduction by Marlies Sobczak and Dr. Siyka Katsarova11:10 - 11:25 Dr. Marcus Wengel: "Minerals and Thalassotherapy"11:30 - 11:45 Ms. Claudia Wagner: "Thalasso for Today's Health...
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Anke Sponer: »Digital Health & Medical Spa Integration«

Anke Sponer is working and lecturing in the area of (health) tourism management at the European Campus Rottal-Inn, the international faculty of the Deggendorf...

Prof. Patrick Carpentier

Patrick Carpentier is Professor Emeritus of Vascular Medicine at the Grenoble - Alpes University in France, past-president of the European Society of Vascular Medicine...

Dr. Lorena Vela Iglesias: “General and epidemiological aspects”

Dr. Lorena Vela IglesiasMD, PhD in Medicine and Specialist in Medical Hydrology at Complutense University of Madrid, where she is Professor and Co-Director of...

Sara Vandamme: “Blue Health & Thermal Resilience”

Sara Vandamme is a postdoctoral researcher at the Blue Growth Research Lab at Ghent University, where she explores the intersections between ocean environments and human...

Thorleikur Jóhannsson: “Latest trends in Geothermal SPAs and Lagoons development in Iceland”

Presented by Thorleikur Jóhannsson, VERKIS Iceland, and Markos Danas, Vice-President, European Historic Thermal Towns Association (EHTTA, advisory partner of GreenSPAS). Climate Resilience and Energy Efficiency in Thermal...

Claudia Wagner

Claudia Wagner is a managing director of Fit Reisen. She is responsible for the area’s product, product development as well as hotel purchasing and...

Claude-Eugène Bouvier

Claude-Eugène Bouvier is a Board Member of the European Spas Association, a Member of the French College of Health Economists, and the former General...

Dr. Meglena Plugtschieva

Dr. Meglena Plugtschieva is the Ambassador of BUBSPA. She has served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to Montenegro, to...

Ing. Alina Huseynli, MBA

Alina Huseynli is the Director and Board Member of the Institute of Spa and Balneology. She is the author of the flagship project “Spa...

Innovation Highlights at the Congress

Participants of the ESPA Congress 2025 will experience the latest breakthrough from our main partner Gharieni, winner of the Innovation Award 2024. The RLX Satori...

The Art and Science of Better Sleep

One of the local partners of the ESPA Congress 20225 is SLEPT - a company dedicated to the science and craft of sleep. The...

Linda Lancere: “Virtual mental and physical health – integration aspects”

Dr. sc. ing. Linda Lancere is a digital rehabilitation expert, physcial therapist and researcher at the Virtual and Augmented Reality Laboratory of the Institute of Sociotechnical...