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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
Diseases of the CNS
Regenerative Medicine
Biomaterials
Inflammatory and Infectious Diseases
Drug Discovery & Development
Diagnostics
Hormonal Diseases and Cancer
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 deliverables
Month 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