February 2016

H2020 Coordinators' Day in Brussels

P4SB is attending the H2020 Coordinators' Day in Brussels in order to learn more about amendments, reporting and payments. Good input for the next General Assembly in Dublin.

Partner RWTH is participating the 3rd Applied Synthetic Biology in Europe in Lisbon

Read more: http://www.efb-central.org/index.php/3rdSyntheticBiology/

Movie about P4SB!!!

The short movie about P4SB was on the local television today. See the sequence starting at 6:46 minutes. As the link to the media center will only work the next 7 days, we will put the original video online soon as well. Enjoy!

http://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/video/sendungen/lokalzeit/lokalzeit-aus-aachen/videolokalzeitausaachen1702.html

BIO-Europe® 2016

Venue: 7 - 9 November 2016, KoelnMesse - Congress Center North, Deutz-Mülheimer-Straße 111, Cologne, Germany

Building value through partnerships:
The 22nd annual BIO-Europe is Europe's largest partnering conference serving the global biotechnology industry.

Delegates from all parts of the biotechnology value chain come to BIO-Europe to quickly identify, engage and enter into strategic relationships that drive their businesses successfully forward. Investment and collaboration opportunities developed in prior BIO-Europe conferences have produced many highly successful business partnerships. This year´s BIO-Europe partnering event will again draw over 3,000 industry attendees from nearly 60 countries, representing more than 1,800 companies for three days of high level networking.

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5th BIO.NRW Business Angel Congress

Venue: 1 March 2016, Hyatt Regency Dusseldorf, Speditionstrasse 19, 40221 Dusseldorf, Germany

„Next level - investing into the high-tech future:
financing biotech and life sciences“

Read more: 5th BIO.NRW Business Angel Congress

Click here to see the schedule:
http://www.bio.nrw.de/lw_resource/datapool/_items/item_1500/bac_2016_program_and_registration.pdf

EU Brokerage Event on KET in Horizon 2020

Venue: 12 May 2016, Favorite Parkhotel, Mainz, Germany

This brokerage event could be very interesting for future collaborations and for the development of new project ideas. This event is dedicated to Key Enabling Technologies such as biotechnology!

Read more: EU Brokerage Event on KET in Horizon 2020

Partner RWTH is participating today in an information session

This information session is about funding opportunities in biotechnology and start-up challenges.
Read more: http://www.bio.nrw.de/index.php?index=371

The local Aachen television made a film about P4SB!

We will post the result here soon. Really exciting!

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An interesting article about "Prospects for microbiological solutions to environmental pollution with plastics"

Read the article here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26318446

The BBC features a compact and clear piece of the need-to-know facts on ocean pollution by different types of plastic

More information: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34414710