A labour market study conducted by flanders.bio in 2019 identified six skill areas which are most in demand by employers. To address these shortages, the EU-funded Health and Life Sciences (HELIS) Academy consortium was founded to enhance industry-readiness of young professionals in the Life Sciences & Health cluster in Flanders and the Netherlands.
This consortium project, supported by the European Union (Interreg Vlaanderen-Nederland), ran from 2019-2023. In this project ten Dutch and Flemish partners from academia and industry joined forces to close the gap between university and labour market in the below skill area’s. Hyphen Projects, the company behind BCF Career, was one of these members.
The following skill areas were identified as most in demand by employers:
- Good Manufacturing Practices
- Evidence Based Testing in Healthcare
- Data Analysis & Stewardship
- Business Development
- Medical Technology development
- Product & Process Design
If you want to learn more about business development or a career in biobusiness, perhaps joining the BioBusiness Summer School is of interest to you. This is a one week course on the fundamentals of BioBusiness for PhD’s, postdocs and young professionals.
For more information on HELIS visit: www.helisacademy.com
Other partners:
- Biotech Training Facility
- Dutch Techcenter for Life Sciences
- flanders.bio
- HealthHouse
- ViVes
- Maastricht University
- TU Delft
- TU Eindhoven
- VIB
Are you looking for a job or want to learn more about the life science sector?
Then visit our career event: https://bit.ly/BCFiCareerEvent
Our vacancy website: https://bit.ly/BCFiJobs
Or our website with more career articles: https://bit.ly/BCFiArticles
