The European Peptide Society was founded in 1989, primarily in order to ensure that the valuable but informal European Peptide Symposia should be continued on a sound basis. In March 2012, a Scientific Society termed European Peptide Society (also known as EPS) was constituted (based in Prato, Via Francesco Ferrucci n.203 / C). According to the EPS Statutes, the European Peptide Society is a non-political and non-profit organization with the objective of coordinating, promoting and representing to other similar entities and / or institutional organisms at the international level, in order to promote the advancement of research and training in the peptide sciences in Europe and in other extra-European countries.