Pilot Project »Developing European Biotech Clusters – short term staff exchange programme«:

 

Idea:

Organization of 1 to 2-day long exchange of experts from the field of biotechnology

 

Main activities:

–        Identification of fields for international collaboration

–        Organization of programmes for exchange of experts (1 – 2 days)

–        Clustering policies in practice

–        Financing of clusters and research activities in practice

–        Possibilities for new business (B2B)

 

CLUNET partners in the PP:

-          South Great Plain Regional Development Agency (Hungary)

-          RDA LUR in collaboration with National Institute for Biology (NIB)

-          Bretagne Innovation (France)

–        FILAS (Italy)

–        Madri+d (Spain)

 

In the first half of the year 2009 two workshops were organized:

-          Szeged, 11 – 12 May 2009; Programme; due to a low number of attendances the workshop was postponed to the autumn

-          Madrid, 3 – 4 June 2009; Programme; executed (Short Report)