ScanBalt Campus - Coordinating Education and Research in ScanBalt BioRegion
ScanBalt Campus, a transnational showcase for a shared university structure was initiated at a conference at Lund University, Sweden. Behind it are 31 universities, regional networks, technology transfer organisations and companies from 11 countries located in ScanBalt BioRegion. To begin, a number of transnational centers in specific topics will be set up e.g. ScanBalt Faculty of regenerative medicine, ScanBalt IP Knowledge Center, ScanBalt Faculty of environmental biotechnology as well as an initiative in molecular diagnostics. ScanBalt Campus will - in a bottom up, flexible and modular way - create a critical mass for education and research that will enable ScanBalt BioRegion to compete at a global level.
By establishing ScanBalt Campus ScanBalt BioRegion has taken a significant step towards a more effective and better coordinated use of the resources in education and research and an increased mobility of knowledge and human resources. To support ScanBalt Campus, ScanBalt Academy will be established as a body of prominent academic and industrial scientists that shall act as a strategic advisor and guarantee quality in ScanBalt Campus. Members of ScanBalt Academy will also provide high level lectures to partners in ScanBalt Campus.
The chairman of ScanBalt, Bo Samuelsson says " We believe that ScanBalt Campus will be crucial for Northern Europe to be competitive within life sciences and biotechnology with e.g. the US and Japan by 2010. Only by sharing and better coordinating the use of the scarce resources can we reach that ambitious goal. It is now important more than ever to show that the European collaboration is not only about a treaty - it is also about concrete work and here the new EU members and north western Russia are our best allied to create wealth and prosperity".
The initiation of ScanBalt Campus is co-financed by the EU Interreg lllB-programme for regional development.
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