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The BioBusiness Winter School is a three-day online course for academics who are contemplating a career switch to industry and young professionals in their first industry jobs. This course will help you to kickstart your business career in the European Life Sciences industry. During the three-day program you will learn basic knowledge of main business topics, such as product development, business models and venture capital. You will also gain insight in the world of Life Sciences companies, meet leading business people, get advice on career development and expand your international network.

Since your career in academia is at nearly every stage, largely determined by how successful you are in obtaining funding, writing sucessful grant applications is a vital skill to learn. This online course is aimed at PhD students, postdocs, and starting group leaders. It covers aspects such as identifying the right funding opportunities, evaluating suitable topics for a successful grant proposal, writing an winning grant summary, along with tips and pointers on how to make your application successful. Speakers will include amongst others, seasoned professors with multi-million dollar grants, grant application experts who have reviewed hundreds of grants, professionals from funding bodies such as NWO, and experience stories from similar-stage researchers.

Global Investor Forum facilitates private capital match with promising investment-ready biomed and healthcare start-ups, scale-ups and tech transfer opportunities. The forum creates a powerful network of leading biomed entrepreneurs, formal and informal investors, physician key-opinion leaders and innovation executives to enable the next step of biomed and healthcare ventures. The investor forum offers an excellent platform for leading VC's and entrepreneurs and CEO's of innovative companies to meet each other, to discuss investment opportunities, to expand and strengthen business network for future partnerships.

BCFjobs launches a new series of online recruitment events. The first edition focuses on mbo- and hbo'ers for lab positions and is planned from 6-8 April 2021. During the first day of this online recruitment event, candidates will be able to attend company presentations, ask general questions and view vacancies. On day 2 & 3, the candidates will have personal calls with employers via the 1-on-1 job dating.

The Career Orientation & Enhancement (CORE) online trainings are dedicated to Master, PhDs and postdocs wondering about the different opportunities on the job market and unsure about whether to pursue a career in or outside academia. The trainings aim at giving them an overview of the Benelux Life Sciences sector as well as determine their profile (strengths, weaknesses, aspirations and motivations) to find career paths and job positions matching their interests.

module 1: 7 April 2021
module 2: 9 June 2021
module 3: 13 October 2021

Innovation for Health is Netherlands´ premier conference for innovators in Health and Life Sciences. This is the place where key players in health and care, from bench to boardroom, from start-up to multinational, from Life Sciences to Medtech, come to strengthen existing contacts and to expand their networks and knowledge. A visit to Innovation for Health will bring you the latest trends, inspiration, interaction, many opportunities to expand your network and potential chances for cooperation.

On 12 May, BCF Career Event will take place online. During this online career event you can connect and (video) chat with employers, meet like-minded peers and attend company presentations and insightful sessions. During this online event you can meet employers from the Netherlands, Belgium and elswhere.

Talent Accelerator Programme for BioBusiness (TAP BioBusiness) is an intensive training programme of eight months in which biobusiness professionals can learn in a group of peers from experienced executives, experts and each other by means of inspiring experience stories, training, coaching and consultative sessions. You will be assigned a personal mentor and have access to the five thematic modules of the programme. These will cover a.o. topics such as negotiation, finance, IP, contracts, communication, company strategy.
TAP BioBusiness is part of HELIS Academy. An Interreg EU funded project.

module 4: 13 - 14 January 2021
module 5: 17 - 18 February 2021

New series will start in September 2021.

The BioBusiness Summer School is a five-day course for academics who are contemplating about a career switch to industry and young professionals in their first industry jobs. This course will help you to jumpstart your business career in the Life Sciences industry. During the five-day program you will learn basic knowledge of main business topics, such as product development, intellectual property rights, business models and finance. You will also gain insight in the world of Life Sciences companies, meet leading business people and expand your international network.

On 22-23 September 2021 the first TOPX Summit is planned to take place in Leiden, the Netherlands. During these 2 days you will get to meet and learn from some of the most inspiring and successful female leaders in the Life Sciences Sector. The programme, organised by and for ambitious women in Life Sciences, will cover deep dive workshops, interactive discussions, personal stories and lessons learned, one-on-one speed dates and many networking moments. Join us for a unique programme that will support and empowerment you in your efforts to rise to the top.

BCF Career Event is the largest career event for the Life Sciences. It is the meeting place for everyone who is or wants to be active in Bio/Life Sciences, Chemistry, Food or Pharma. BCF Career Event offers you the opportunity to get into direct contact with a broad range of employers in the sector, but also with other organisations that can help you further in your career.

BCF Career Event is the largest Belgian career event for the Life Sciences. It is the meeting place for everyone who is or wants to be active in Bio/Life Sciences, Chemistry, Food or Pharma. BCF Career Event offers you the opportunity to get into direct contact with a broad range of employers in the sector, but also with other organisations that can help you further your career.