The annual SCOPE meetings offer a major forum for scientific exchange among clinicians and basic scientists working in these challenging fields. The SCOPE conferences cover all aspects of skin problems in OTP and explore new ways of intervention and treatment. Aftercare in OTP focuses on diagnosis, treatment and prevention of infections and, most importantly, skin cancers. We select keynote lectures and abstracts discussing new developments. The emphasis is on workshops which offer ample opportunity to discuss and to network with other professionals – leading to new ideas on how to best treat our patients. Our fruitful cooperation is reflected in several multicentre studies, and in a number of ground-breaking publications and books.