Stop… en route the Via Tirolensis, at the Fernkreuzweg road in Igls, Tyrol, Austria, the route following two pilgrimage routes at once : both the St James Way (Jakobsweg , Camino de Santiago) and the Via Romea Germanica pilgrimage routes. New Year’s Eve 2025.
Short impression of the 24th Workshop of the AIDPIT Study Group (Artificial Insulin Delivery, Pancreas and Islet Transplantation), in Igls (Innsbruck) Austria, 23-25 January 2005.
Video from January 25th featuring :
(i) the Igls Congress park ;
(ii) the morning opening lecture by Mathias Brendel, with chairs Bart Keymeulen (Brussels, Belgium) and Mathias Brendel (Giessen, Germany), and, in the lecture hall : president Annika Tibell (Sweden) and honorary member Reinhard Bretzel (Germany) ;
(iii) a lunch time meeting with José Oberholzer (Chicago, USA) … not familar yet ;) with that new little Sony T1 camera with a periscopic lens inside .. ;
(iv) one of the afternoon discussion groups (Clinical Islet Transplantation) ;
(v) clips from the plenary oral abstract session with chairs Karin Ulrichs (Germany) and Richard Smith (Bristol , UK) and lectures by Norma Sue Kenyon (Miami , USA) and Piero Marchetti (Pisa, Italy) with discussion by Daniel Brandhorst.
Notes
AIDPIT was known first as AIDSPIT, short for : Artificial Insulin Delivery Systems, Pancreas and Islet Transplantation.
The AIDSPIT study group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) was established in the early 1980s.
In 2000 the acronym AIDSPIT was replaced by ‘AIDPIT’, in order to avoid confusion with the AIDS disease.
The annual meetings are generally held in the little town of Igls, close to Innsbruck in Austria — the first years, early in February, and next, late in January. Once, in the 1990s (following a discussion ‘…why always in Igls?’, the meeting was held in Amsterdam.
From 2011, the annual workshops of AIDPIT continued as a joined meeting with the EPITA — the European Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association — part of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT).
From 2024 — following the 12th EPITA Symposium & 41st AIDPIT Workshop in 2023 — this symposium is referred to as the EPITA Symposium.
A second, remastered, video edition (2022) was produced by upscaling the original video file (converted to size 1920 × 1440) and adding a caption, and uploaded to YouTube Jan 25, 2022.
This second edition is published now – Jan 25th 2026 – as part of the Science series of posts at my site michelvanderburg.com, started in 2022 to make available online a portfolio of the science section of my CV, a project I hope to finish soon… in a few months.
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Angels’ Song of Jubilation … Gloria in Excelsis Deo . Getting in the mood for Igls Mountain Christmas (‘Igler Bergweihnacht’) with the St. Aegidius Choir singing Christmas carols, Dec. 23, 2025, at the Igls Village Square (Innsbruck), Tyrol, Austria.
Notes
Trad. France. Engel singen Jubellieder. Text and arrangement: Norbert Gerold.
Flying direction Igls in front of the Nordkette range of mountains, following two pilgrimage routes at once : both the St James Way (Jakobsweg , Camino de Santiago) and the Via Romea Germanica pilgrimage routes follow this route, the Fernkreuzweg road, into Igls.
First snow on Christmas Eve at the Viller Steig walking the Via Tirolensis … following two pilgrimage routes at once : both the Camino de Santiago (St James Way , Jakobsweg) and the Via Romea Germanica. Both these pilgrimage routes follow this little road, the Viller Steig, between the villages Vill and Igls, in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, Dec 24th 2025.
Via Tirolensis
The Via Romea Germanica pilgrimage route, goes from Stade near Hamburg in Germany to Rome, Italy. The Tyrolean section (Via Tirolensis) in Austria and Italy of the Via Romea, goes from Mittenwald (German/Austrian border) – via Seefeld, Innsbruck, Vill, Igls, Patsch, to Brenner – Brenner (Austrian/Italian border), and next to Bolzano in South-Tyrol, Italy.
Camino de Santiago (St James Way , Jacobsweg): This road between Igls and Vill is also part of the Brenner – Innsbruck stage of the East Tyrol route in the Camino de Santiago network in Austria and Italia , the ‘Jakobsweg Osttirol’ .
In the old town of Innsbruck at the Golden Roof (Goldenes Dachl) this East Tyrol route merges with the main (east to west route in Austria), the ‘Jacobsweg Tirol’.
Walking the Via Tirolensis on the Viller Steig … following two pilgrimage routes at once : both the Camino de Santiago (St James Way , Jakobsweg) and the Via Romea Germanica. Both these pilgrimage routes follow this little road, the Viller Steig, between the villages Vill and Igls, in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria.
Via Tirolensis
The Via Romea Germanica pilgrimage route, goes from Stade near Hamburg in Germany to Rome, Italy. The Tyrolean section (Via Tirolensis) in Austria and Italy of the Via Romea, goes from Mittenwald (German/Austrian border) – via Seefeld, Innsbruck, Vill, Igls, Patsch, to Brenner – Brenner (Austrian/Italian border), and next to Bolzano in South-Tyrol, Italy.
Camino de Santiago (St James Way , Jacobsweg): This road between Igls and Vill is also part of the Brenner – Innsbruck stage of the East Tyrol route in the Camino de Santiago network in Austria and Italia , the ‘Jakobsweg Osttirol’ .
In the old town of Innsbruck at the Golden Roof (Goldenes Dachl) this East Tyrol route merges with the main (east to west route in Austria), the ‘Jacobsweg Tirol’.
Walking two pilgrimage routes at once : both the St James Way (Jakobsweg, Camino de Santiago) and the Via Romea Germanica pilgrimage routes follow this little road we walked between Igls-Innsbruck and Patsch. The roads starts as Fernkreuzweg in Igls , and continues in the 2nd scene as Sportplatzweg with that little hill on the right, the Ameisbichl (Ant hill), at the border of the municipality of Patsch. Next, in the last scene, at the Pfaffenbichl (Priests hill) here on the left, a side road is taken back to Igls via Rosengarten.
Update 20260116 : added info on comparison of the Brenner – Innsbruck route of the St James Way and Via Romea Germanica
St James Way (Jacobsweg): This road between Igls and Patsch is part of the Brenner – Innsbruck stage of the East Tyrol route in the network of St James Ways in Austria and Italia , the ‘Jakobsweg Osttirol’ .
In the old town of Innsbruck at the Golden Roof (Goldenes Dachl) this East Tyrol route merges with the main ‘Jacobsweg Tirol’ (East to West) .
That Brenner – Innsbruck route of the St James Way follows the same route as the Via Romea Germanica, I found checking maps.
I checked in more detail various maps of the stages I walked the past decades : Innsbruck Altstadt (Goldenes Dach , Inn river) via Maria-Theresien-Straße • Viller Steig between Vill and Igls •
Habichtstraße and Fernkreuzweg in Igls towards Patsch • the path below the road between Patsch towards St Peter / Mühltal …
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