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    SPECIAL EDITION OF THE SCANBALT NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2008
 

WELCOME TO THE NORDIC BALTIC EXPATS FORUM
The Bioscience Brain-Bank for:
  • Regional Expatriates, i.e. citizens of a Top of Europe country engaged in bioscience research, business or research policy, as students, staff members or professionals working or studying – or recently having worked or studied - abroad, either at another Top of Europe country or elsewhere.
  • Foreign Expatriates residing on Top of Europe engaged in bioscience research, business or research policy.
  • Returned Foreign Expatriates, i.e. citizens of countries outside Top of Europe engaged in bioscience research, business or research policy who have worked or studied on Top of Europe and then returned to their country of origin.
The Nordic Baltic Expats Forum (NBEF) is the community of researchers, students and professionals who have roots or experiences in the Nordic-Baltic Region (the Top of Europe, i.e. Denmark, Estonia, Finland, North Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, North Western Russia, and Sweden). NBEF is funded by Top of Europe universities, companies, institutions and public authorities.
Services
  • Informing Expatriates of job, funding, career, and partnering opportunities in R&D on Top of Europe.

  • Engaging Expatriates in leveraging opportunities for regional institutions, universities, and companies abroad.
  • Helping Expatriates to share experiences, better practices and to give professional and social support before, during, or after their stay abroad.

www.nordexpat.eu

How to Join NBEF
To benefit from the community, you must join it. Your professional profile will be stored at LinkedIn and you will be a member of the NBEF group. Membership allows you to search within the NBEF group for colleagues and potential collaborators using keywords and/or specifying location. You will also receive a monthly newsletter with news, events, industry and academic positions and calls for grant applications.
Read more on how to join NBEF >>
Foto: Heine Pedersen
The Nordic-Baltic Expats Forum launched into action on October 2nd, 2008, at the Alexandersalen, University of Copenhagen, to an attentive audience consisting of biotech business people, investors, and regional development agencies, university deans, professors, and students, who together with government civil servants, ambassadors, and embassy trade reps all came to hear the fundamental messages: Attracting Talents in a Global Workforce and how the NBEF helps our Top of Europe region meet this challenge.
Read the report from the launch >>
Charlotte Gudme, PhD
Return Fellow Novo Nordisk
NBEF case story
"The Return Fellowship has been a wonderful opportunity for me to return to Denmark after more than 4 years in New York. The relocation was organized by Novo and I am particularly grateful for all the help I received with respect to the practical aspects of moving back to Denmark. That was a tremendous help in a very stressful situation."...
Read Charlotte's story >>

New opportunities to study in Nordic region
A new round of the successful Nordic Master Program is starting up now. This makes it possible to put together a course of study based on core competences at Nordic institutes of higher education.


Nordic countries pump half a billion into joint research
The Nordic countries will now invest almost half a billion into joint climate, energy and environmental research. The initiative is part of the Nordic Council of Ministers' work to ensure Nordic competitiveness in the global market.


Advances in Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
- High Throughput Platforms and Advances in Imaging -
Meeting in Oslo - June 8-12, 2009
"Join us in Oslo to get an overview of what the new technologies can offer you, where to find them and how to apply them into your own research field."


Starting Up! The Conference on Academic Enterprise
Stockholm 2nd of December
This conference examines the policy, practice and tactics of university enterprise. The conference, at Karolinska Institutet, one of the world's leading medical universities and nominator of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is associated with the ACES Academic Enterprise Awards – the first pan-European programme to recognize successful academic entrepreneurs.
Few seats left!

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CONTACT  
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Elise Kvarnström, EU Relations Manager ScanBalt, e...@scanbalt.org
NBEF Project Manager:
Peter Frank, General secretary ScanBalt, p...@scanbalt.org

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NBEF SPONSORS

Faculty of Science, University of Arhus
Faculty of Health

lundbeck
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Arhus
Faculty of Science

Scion-DTU Science Park

Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Kaunas University of Medicine

Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen

Danish Ministry of Science and Technology

Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Novo Nordisk

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

BioTurku in Finland/ Turku Science Park Ltd
DTU / Technical University of Denmark
Tartu Biotechnology Park
Leo Pharma
Capital Region of Copenhagen

Roskilde

Biocon Valley
Institute of Biotechnology in Lithuania
SDU
Västra Götaland Region
Aalborg University
Vinnova
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