ScanBalt Campus – Kick Off Meeting
The kick – off meeting for the Interreg lllB co-financed project ScanBalt Campus will take place on Tuesday 14th June 2005 starting 10.00 at Lund University, Sweden.
ScanBalt Campus (SBC) will create a cross-sectoral network of education and R&D between universities, companies, hospitals/university hospitals and other actors – all sharing life sciences/biotechnology as a common base – in ScanBalt BioRegion. The SBC will improve regional coordination and mobility, increase cross-disciplinarity, increase collaboration between sectors and create critical mass.
The coordinator of the project is the Centre for Environment and Sustainablity, a co-operation between Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University, read more athttp://www.miljo.chalmers.se/english/index.htm
Programme and presentations
14 June 2005
Lunds University
Eden Hörsal
Paradisgatan 5, Building H
Sweden
10.00 – 10.30 Welcome
Bo Samuelsson, ScanBalt
Welcome to the Öresund Science Region , Bengt Streijfert, Öresund University
10.30 – 12.00 Presentation of the ScanBalt Campus project:
Introduction
Oliver Lindquist, Center of Environment and Sustainability
Presentation of WP 1: Concepts and Curriculum
Bo Samuelsson, ScanBalt
Presentation of WP 2: Knowledge Centers
Carita Martin, BioTurku
Presentation of WP 3: Information Platform
Elise Kvarnström, ScanBalt
Presentation of WP 4: Dissemination
Jens Gran, MedCoast Scandinavia
Economy, reports and time sheets
Katarina Gårdfeldt, Göteborg University
12.00-12.15 Election of the ScanBalt Campus Board
12.15-12.35 The Vision: ScanBalt Campus as an European role model
Horst Klinkmann, BioCon Valley
12.35-12.55 Education and training of leaders for the life science industry of the future: Which are the challenges?
Bente Christensen, Copenhagen Business School
12.55 – 13.00 End of Kick Off – Introduction of afternoon sessions
Oliver Lindquist, Center of Environment and Sustainability
13.00 – 14.00 Sandwich lunch
14.00 – 17.30 Parallel session 1: Round table discussion
14.00-14.05 Welcome and introduction
Bo Samuelsson, ScanBalt
14.05 – 16.30 Discussion of concepts (moderator Bo Samuelsson)
ScanBalt Campus
ScanBalt Academy
ScanBalt shared curricula
16.30 – 17.30 Work planning, actions, decisions, responsible
Peter Frank will be secretary for the session
14.00 – 17.30 Parallel session 2: ScanBalt Knowledge Center initiatives
14.00 – 14.05 Welcome and introduction
Carita Martin, BioTurku
14.05 – 16.30 Presentation of potential ScanBalt Campus knowledge centers:
ScanBalt European Faculty of regenerative medicine
Gustav Steinhoff, Rostock Medical University
Gdansk initiative on Faculty of Molecular Diagnostics
Ewa Lojkowska/Jacek Bigda, Gdansk University/Medical University
ScanBalt Faculty of intellectual property and entrepreneurship
Bo Heiden, Chalmers
ScanBalt Faculty of Environmental Biotechnology
Oliver Lindquist, Center of Environmental Biotechnology
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Open discussion of other ideas
16.30 – 17.30 Work planning, actions, decisions, responsible
Katarina Gårdfeldt will be secretary for the session
17.30 – ? Official Reception at the Öresund University
Opening of their new premises with participation of the rectors of Lund and Copenhagen Universities