Recent Activities
22 July 2010 – EuropaBio, the European Association for Bioindustries, has become a partner of the Biotechnology Funding Hub. The two organisations share a common goal of supporting biotechnology in Europe and will work together to build European consortia and enable them to submit successful proposals to funding schemes including FP7, IMI, Eurostars and NIH.
10 June 2010 – The European Biotechnology Network attended the OneNucleus conference in Cambridge in early June and signed up over 20 new individual members in just 2 days.
15 May 2010 – The Biotechnology Funding Hub published its first analysis of funding from the European Commission, with the FP7 Health call under scrutiny. Members received a detailed breakdown of likely topics and their potential for SME involvement. The publication marks the start of a full funding support service from the Hub.
19 April 2010 – The new Biotechnology Funding Hub on the network's website initially focuses on FP7, IMI and NIH funding before expanding through 2010 to find all significant funding opportunities for biotech companies. Each month, all members will receive funding news and opinion from all biotechnology sectors. Moreover, the European Biotechnology Network will hold regular funding workshops in Brussels, free of charge to all members, to introduce new funding schemes and bring major updates in funding opportunities. Organisation members gain additional access to the dedicated funding service which helps them to identify the profile of funding sought, monitors funding opportunities that match their profile, assists with partner search/consortium creation and generates proposal advice and assistance.
30 March 2010 – In the first half-year of 2010 the European Biotechnology Network continues a series of cooperations with leading European life sciences trade fairs, congresses and conferences: Biotrinity/UK, IBIC/Italy, Bio-Europe Spring/Spain, 3rd Berlin Conference on IP in Life Sciences/Germany, ERBI conference/UK, Biomedica/Germany. Events supported by the network are displayed on our website and their dates on our events calendar are marked with our red star. The members of our network are informed in the eNewsletter about reduced entrance and participation fees and other benefits.
19 February 2010 – The European Biotechnology Network supported the 3rd Berlin Conference on IP in Life Sciences. This year's topic was "Effective Life Cycle Management". Dr. Claire Skentelbery, Secretary General of the European Biotechnology Foundation moderated the event in the Belgian Embassy where some 80 high class experts from Europe and the United States discussed new types of cooperations between the pharmaceutical industry and the biotech sector.
15 January 2010 – The European Biotechnology Foundation announced today the appointment of Dr. Claire Skentelbery as Secretary General with immediate effect.
23 October 2009 – This month, official delegates from the European Biotechnology Network attended EuroBIO in France, Biotechnica in Germany, and EFIB in Portugal. Furthermore, EBN supported the organisation of an inaugurating board meeting for the Young European Biotech Network (YEBN) on the last October weekend in Berlin.
20 July 2009 – A new searchable database is now available at our network's website. It offers comprehensive information about more than 2,000 biotech companies active in the EU, Switzerland and Norway, based on OECD criteria. The European Biotechnology Network offers this service in cooperation with European Biotechnology News free of charge.
18 June 2009 – This month the European Biotechnology Network startet a series of cooperations with leading European life sciences trade fairs, congresses and conferences. Events supported by the network are displayed on our website, their dates on our event's calendar are marked with our red star. The members of our network will be informed via eMail about reduced entrance and participation fees and other benefits. The range of these supported events will be extended in the near future.
09 April 2009 – The second edition of the European Biotechnology Industry Guide will be published this coming June. The book contains information and addresses of all by OECD classification dedicated biotechnologie companies located in the EU, Switzerland, and Norway. Since most of the European countries have not yet conducted an official company survey according to the Biotechnology Statistical Framework of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation an Development (OECD), this book and the corresponding databank is the only source, that makes the activities of the European biotech industry internationally comparable. The European Biotechnology Network officially supports this initiative and will present the results together with the publishing company and the OECD this summer.
10 March 2009 – The European Biotechnology Foundation took an active part in a joint tender for a EC study "Regional Biotechnology - Establishing a methodology and performance indicators for assessing bioclusters and bioregions relevant to the KBBE area".
02 March 2009 – After months of laying groundwork, the European Biotechnology Foundation officially threw open its doors in March of 2009 in Brussels on Square Ambiorix, beginning media cooperation with the well-known magazine European Biotechnology News and launching the European Biotechnology Network website at www.european-biotechnology.net. Network activities and member benefits will be expanded regularly over time.