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The Career Orientation & Enhancement (CORE) webinar is dedicated to 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 webinar aims 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.

On Wednesday 9 September and Thursday 10 September 2020 the 16th edition of knowledge for growth will take place in Ghent, Belgium. The cream of the European life sciences community will be attending this business conference, attracting decision makers from biotech, pharma and MedTech as well as investors, universities, top notch research institutes, policymakers and competence providers. They are expecting 1300+ participants from about 600+ companies & organisations. The conference features an exciting programme, providing vital insight into the global life sciences landscape, B2B Partnering, a trade fair with 110+ exhibitors and a scientific poster & showcase area.

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 1: 23 - 24 September 2020
module 2: 14 - 15 October 2020
module 3: 24 - 25 November 2020
module 4: 13 - 14 January 2021
module 5: 17 - 18 February 2021

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. This year, BCF Career Event will be spread over two days, with an online and an in-person event.

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. At BCF Career Event Belgium over 1,200 job seekers and students are present as visitor.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.