How to participate

Becoming a delegate: You must be a GUCH and member of a national GUCH association. Please contact your association before you download and return the application documents.
Please download the Registration Documents, fill it out and return a scan (PDF) by email or the original by post to the following person/address until Sunday, 4th May 2014:

Grace Schatz
Oberfeld 92
9495 Triesen / Principality of Liechtenstein
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Please pay the participation fee of €260.-- by transfer to the following bank/account:

Luzerner Kantonalbank, 6003 Luzern, Switzerland
Account number: 1613.9090.2003
IBAN: CH79 0077 8161 3909 0200 3
BIC/SWIFT: LUKBCH2260A
Payment details: Tough Hearts 2014 / CUORE MATTO

Becoming a sponsor/donator: Please read our sponsoring dossier. All sponsors and donators are invited to visit our conference on the PRESS DAY (Monday, 21st July with a Press Conference at 4.30 p.m.). Please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to inscribe for that day.

Being a guest: As friend and supporter of CUORE MATTO, you have the chance to be a part of the conference for one day. Please visit us on the PUBLIC DAY (Thursday 24th July). Please find the programme and registration possibilities here. Registrations will be considered according to the date of receipt.

ToughHearts Conference

We are GUCHs, Grown-Ups with Congenital Heart defects. In 1999, we set up our own association in Switzerland, CUORE MATTO, which regularly organises meetings, lectures and seminars for its members who are all affected by a congenital heart defect.

At present, we have the great pleasure to be host of the EuroHearts Conference in Switzerland, the Tough Hearts Conference 2014 which started on July 20th 2014 and ended on Friday 25th 2014.

The Tough Hearts Conference 2014 takes place in Baar in the canton of Zug / Switzerland, and welcomes delegates from many different GUCH-organisations from Europe and around the world.

The Conference Programme includes interesting and informative lectures and round tables of GUCH-specialists and cardiologists, instructive workshops and exciting leisure activities. Being together with GUCHs from so many different places and backgrounds is essential and enriching for all of us.

Beside very concrete medical advice and news concerning GUCH-issues, the Tough Hearts Conference 2014 focuses on the dealing with constraints and sacrifice and the living with pain and emotional distress, all subjects which characterise a life with a congenital defect or disease. The importance of the doctor-patient-relationship and the fact that they learn from each other is also highlighted during this conference.

In addition, the Tough Hearts Conference 2014 is a jubilee conference as it is 20 years since it has taken place for the first time and 10 years for the last time in Switzerland.

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