Upcoming events and trainings

Iris user survey

The Iris user survey is now available!

We encourage you to share with us your views on implementation requirements for mortality cause of death coding with Iris version 6, plans for the transition to ICD-11, potential barriers and training needs to improve the services we offer to the user community.

The survey takes some minutes to complete and will close on 2^nd May 2025. Please fill in the survey and send it back to the Iris Institute.

Iris user questionaire April 2025

Iris user group meeting - May 2025

The next Iris user group meeting will take place on 15^th and 16^th May 2025 in Cologne. We will hold this meeting as a hybrid conference. Registration is necessary until April 16^th, 2025. Please fill in and sign the registration form and send it back to the Iris Institute. Registration can only be accepted by submitting the registration form.

After registration, we will send you an invoice. You are only confirmed as a participant once the participation fee is received. The payment is only possible by bank transfer. We cannot accept any credit cards or cash.

Registration form - Iris user group meeting

Information - Iris user group meeting

Previous events and trainings

If you are interested in further information about previous events and training, please open the list via the plus sign.

Individual training offer

You can choose between different training packages dependent on your training requirements:

1. Iris background
2. Iris installation stand alone or network, setting options
3. Iris use
4. Dictionary and language standardisation
5. Iris technical aspects
6. Interactive coding with Iris
7. Iris advanced coding topics
8. Switching to another Iris version
9. Introduction to Iris

Are you interested in an Iris training? We can coordinate a training program for you. If you need another kind of training program, please let us know and we will check if respective trainers can be found.

Training course on civil registration and vital statistics systems

The International Statistics Program has developed a training course on civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems to provide information to epidemiologists, statisticians, demographers, and others working in public health about vital statistics data gathered from a national civil registration system.

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For more information about the meetings and trainings, please contact the Iris Institute.

E-mail: Iris Institute