As of Oct 1st 2024 FORTRESS2025 in Essen is fully booked. We are no longer accepting registrations.
If you want to be added to the mailling list for FORTRESS2026 send an email to
Thank you for your interest.
is a non-profit, purely academic annual meeting initiated in 2019 that alternates between Leuven (Belgium) and Essen (Germany).
It is focused on translational research in all sarcomas and offers extensive networking opportunities to facilitate and cultivate collaborations within the sarcoma community.
FORTRESS takes place in two very different, but equally spectacular UNESCO World Heritage sites:
The Sarkomtour is a yearly fundraising event initiated by Prof. Sebastian Bauer and organized by the Foundation University Hospital Essen together with the German Sarcoma Foundation.
Barts Weg is a non-for-profit organization in memory of the late Bart Verbeeck, a young Ewing sarcoma patient which is fully devoted to supporting sarcoma research and care.
Sarcoma Center Essen
West German Cancer Center
University Hospital Essen
WTZ-F EG room 0.014
Hufelandstr. 55
45147 Essen