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EULAR has traditionally been a strong advocate of training and education in rheumatology, which has made EULAR the pre-eminent provider and facilitator of high-quality educational offerings for physicians, health professionals in rheumatology, and people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases. Indeed, the international rheumatology community is set to benefit from high levels of education in rheumatology, with the aim of delivering significant relief to the lives of people with musculoskeletal and rheumatic diseases worldwide. In June 2017, the EULAR School of Rheumatology was launched at the Annual EULAR Congress. This is as a fully integrated operational entity contained within EULAR which combines all educational offers, whether they are live courses, online courses, books, webinars or any other material, under one roof. This new system has the aim of greatly facilitating access to all products, giving personalised overviews and allowing, for those who sign up for a membership, to use the various incentives and special offers. The School will also provide the members a secure means of storing their gained certifications and other personal information. In addition, members of the EULAR School of Rheumatology will be able to benefit from a new accumulative credit point system, which adds points according to educational hours spent in EULAR courses, either live or on-line. Members will also be regularly informed regarding the developments of the School and new educational and training materials. With the purpose of optimising and improving the already very solid educational offerings of EULAR, during the last two years, seven groups of eminent experts in education actively worked to develop new products to be added to the existing educational material of EULAR. Many different projects are currently being developed by these “classrooms” and are addressed to the whole rheumatology community (i.e. rheumatologists, undergraduates, trainees, teachers, researchers, health professionals, and people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases). Indeed, in today’s digital era, education and training possibilities are undergoing constant changes with new approaches, products and technologies coming up. Thus, the EULAR School of Rheumatology represents a model of future learning, reflecting the changing needs of the rheumatology community through offering new educational materials across this medical discipline and the greatest levels of access to the highest quality of education in the field. With the modern developments of the rheumatology discipline, EULAR School of Rheumatology is today taking its educational offerings, services and products to a global audience worldwide. For information about ongoing and new initiatives of the EULAR School of Rheumatology, please go to www.eular.org/school_of_rheumatology.cfm. Disclosure of Interest None declared