WP 2: ScanBalt Campus Knowledge Centers

WP leader: Carita Martin, Turku Bio Valley Ltd

(Total budget 224.293 Euro)

The Main Business Areas in BioTurku

Drug Discovery & Development

Diagnostics

Biomaterials

Functional Foods

The Focus Areas in BioTurku

Hormonal Diseases and Cancer

Inflammatory and Infectious Diseases

Diseases of the CNS

Regenerative Medicine

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WP 2 objectives: • Identify existing knowledge centers in ScanBalt BioRegion with the potential to become transnational centers

• Catalyze the initiation of new transnational knowledge centers in a bottom up approach

• Promote ScanBalt Campus to other partners and existing knowledge centers

• Through knowledge centers improve the balance between demand and supply of education and increase the accessibility of thematic knowledge in ScanBalt BioRegion

• Serve as a mutual learning platform for knowledge centers

Some concept points for ScanBalt Knowledge Centers to be discussed

• Bottom up

• Transnational

• Selfgoverned

• Can be virtual, physical or a combination

• Can utilize ScanBalt as an umbrella or platform for activities after own choice

ScanBalt Campus Knowledge Centers – WP Methodology

• Examples of potential new knowledge centers in advance identified through the ScanBalt network

• Promote ScanBalt Campus as a tool for transnational knowledge centers through the ScanBalt network

• Dialogue and meetings with new potential knowledge centers

• Promote coordination between knowledge centers – meetings between coordinators

WP Methodology….two key points to stress

• To be a catalyst for the initiation of new transnational knowledge centers and the affiliation of existing activities into ScanBalt Campus

• To not interfere directly with the activities of the individual centers

Identified potential Campus knowledge centers (presentations in the afternoon)

• ScanBalt 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)

Hopefully more to come!

WP 2- Main Milestones and deliverablesMonth 1-6:

Detailed workplan for the WP with actions, timetable and responsible (discussion in the afternoon)

Concrete draft action plans for 2 knowledge centers

Month 7-12:

Concrete draft action plans for 2 more knowledge centers

Posters, flyers etc. prepared for ScanBalt Forum 2005

Information from the knowledge centers posted on the ScanBalt Campus web (to be established in WP 3)

Month 13-18:

Two knowledge centers have initiated activities

Two knowledge centers have prepared action plans for their upstart

Posters, flyers etc. prepared for ScanBalt Forum 2006

Information from the knowledge centers posted on the ScanBalt Campus web