Aims

• To educate by organizing meetings, creating slide sets and providing opportunities for trainees in pathology and dermatology to spend time in centers of dermatopathology of their choices
  
  
• To establish a European Diploma of Dermatopathology, that is the equivalent of the Board Examination in the United States, accessible to both pathologists and dermatologists
  
  
• To enhance co-operation between pathologists and dermatologists interested in dermatopathology
  
  
• To create a stronger link between dermatopathology and investigative dermatology
  
  
• To standardize quality criteria of performance in dermatopathology