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WP 3: ScanBalt Campus Dissemination WP leader: Jens Gran, MedCoast Scandinavia (Total budget 173.332 Euro). WP 4 objectives: • Provide a platform for dissemination activities - Planning of ScanBalt Forum 2005 and 2006: - Session tracks and workshops at ScanBalt Forum 2005
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WP 3: ScanBalt Campus Dissemination WP leader: Jens Gran, MedCoast Scandinavia (Total budget 173.332 Euro)
WP 4 objectives: • Provide a platform for dissemination activities - Planning of ScanBalt Forum 2005 and 2006: - Session tracks and workshops at ScanBalt Forum 2005 - Final launch conference 2006 co-organized with ScanBalt Forum 2006 - Publish reports from conferences - Attract sponsors
About the ScanBalt Forum • Provides opportunities for future collaboration • Promotes established projects • Promotes dialogue with decision and opinion makers • Promotes a club like feeling • Promotes ScanBalt regionally through regional organizer • Promotes the organizer regionally • Change region every year • Does not compete with regional science conferences
ScanBalt Forum 2005 MAIN PROGRAM Thursday, 3rd November Plenum EU and Regional Policies ScanBalt CompetenceRegion ScanBalt Campus Parallel sessions Biomaterials/nanotechnology Boosting Baltic FP 6 Bioethics Stem cells Venture finance ScanBalt Clinical Research Network Marine Biotechnology, Genomics and Biology Agro-Biotechnology, Food and Health
ScanBalt Forum 2005 MAIN PROGRAM Friday, 4th November Biomedical Symposium – The Merger of Neuroscience and Metabolism Two Nobel laureates will lead a discussion on the latest findings in molecular medicine and the implications of this for metabolic disease study Workshop I - ScanBalt Campus Workshop II – Challenges of the Innovation Processes in New EU Member States Tentative parallel sessions Biotech One Click Away/Scand-LSDB FUGE
Friday, 4th November, Medcoast RH symposiosium Speakers: • Professor Peter Agre, Duke University: Water transport in brain • Professor Arvid Carlsson, Göteborg: Dopamine in the Brain: Historical Background and Current Trends • Professor Jon Storm-Mathisen, Oslo: Transmitter substances,- molecular analysis of synthesis, storage and metabolism • Professor John Glomset, Seattle: The role of lipids in synaptic function • Professor Leena Peltonen, Helsinki: Genetic Studies on the Metabolic • Syndrome (only a tentative title) • Professor Ulf Smith, Göteborg: The patophysiological mechanisms behind the metabolic syndrome Professor Tore Henriksen, Oslo: Early imprinting and consequences for “life-style diseases” in later life
• ScanBalt Forum 2005 - Main Conference sponsors: Astra Zeneca (Flagship sponsor-promotion package) FUGE NRC (subject Board approval June 20) GSK City of Oslo Council (reception) RH Other possible conference sponsors (not confirmed): Marine session sponsor Other session sponsors? SAS (travel)