Evaluation of contributions to congresses and seminars is seen by the ESC as a tool of quality control. Evaluation can also contribute to the continuation of high standards of congresses and seminars and where possible make improvements for the future. Therefore the ESC asked participants of the 7^th Congress of the European Society for contraception, "Changing attitudes to Contraception and Reproductive Health", which was held in Genova, 10-13^th of April 2002, to fill in an evaluation form and score the sessions attended. A total of 40 contributions were evaluated, 241 forms were fit for evaluation. The number of hits per contribution varied from 42 to 198. This means that relative to the total number of participants the number of evaluation forms is rather low. On the other hand the participants in general were very satisfied with the quality of the contributions. In a scale from 1 ‘poor’ to 5 ‘excellent’ the average score was 4,2! The single contribution which scored highest, was the closing session ‘Future contraception form research to practice’ which scored an excellent 4,5. Other topics, which scored very high, were the contributions on sexual transmitted viral infections and the meet the expert’s session on sexual dysfunction and contraception. All the main session speakers scored 4 or more, but even of the contributions, which scored a little lower, all were at least satisfactory or higher. The ESC can be very content with this evaluation. A point of improvement the next time will be to convince the participants how important it is to fill in these evaluation forms.

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