8th BMMC Congress was held in Cluj Napoca of Romania from 21 until 24 October 2003. The congress was attended by three hundred and fifty (350) participants from all four member countries. There were two officers attending the congress as observers, one from Albania and one from USA.
Seven hundred and two (702) scientific papers, one hundred and twenty three (123) oral and five hundred and seventy nine (579) poster presentations were presented.