ScanBalt Campus Creates Critical Mass: 7 New Projects Created

The Interreg lll B co-financed project ScanBalt Campus (SC) has experienced a remarkable succes as result of a call for tenders with 7 proposals for ScanBalt Campus Knowledge Centers or Networks. The proposals were inside the following themes: Baltic Entrepreneurship Training, Education and Training for Leaders of the Life Science Industry of the Future, Environmental Biotechnology, Informational Biology, Intellectual Property and Bio-entrepreneurship, Molecular Diagnostics, Regenerative Medicine.

One important aim of the Interreg lllB co-financed SC pilot-project is to act as a catalyst for the aggregation of critical mass across borders in a bottom up manner according to the following criteria:

▪ Activities should stimulate the Bologna process

▪ Activities should be inside life sciences and biotechnology

▪ Activities should be within ScanBalt BioRegion

▪ Activities can be both education and research

▪ Activities should require mobility between at least two countries

▪ Activities should be based on win-win situations for the partners

▪ Activities should strengthen links to industry when possible

▪ Participants have to be members of ScanBalt (Institutional or Founding)

SC is to be seen as a tool, an umbrella or platform, for universities and other institutions to cooperate and cluster competencies and resources to reach “state of the art” within life sciences and biotech. It also offers a possibility to strengthen cooperation between universities, private companies, hospitals and others actors, the so called “triple-helix”, in an arena co-owned, but outside of the universities. SC gives room for a flexibility needed to cope with the dynamic and variable demand for education, which is not easily effectuated within the present regulated system. For further information on SC seewww.scanbalt.org/sw228.asp or contact Katarina Gårdfeldt,