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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 your career. At BCF Career Event over 2,000 job seekers and students are present as visitor.

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.

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.

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.

The Business Development Course aims at junior to mid-level BD professionals who are driven to expand their knowledge on the BD process and to strengthen their BD competences. Most BD professionals in this sector have a scientific background and are not trained to think and act commercially and to be business minded. During this intensive two-day course, experienced BD executives and experts will share their experiences and insights and provide practical tips concerning topics such as partner search, valuation, negotiation, legal aspects, deal structures and finance.

The Global Scale-up Program is an international mentoring program and investment roadshow for Life Sciences and Medtech executives. It is organised in collaboration with Health~Holland, Oost NL and Maastricht University. The Global Scale-up Program is a unique pressure-cooker preparation program to make your venture ready for a winning product launch and international expansion. The program is dedicated to ventures in Life Sciences, MedTech or eHealthand takes place in the US and Europe.

Since your career in academia is at nearly every stage, largely determined by how successful you are in obtaining funding, this is a vital skill to learn. This course is aimed at PhD students, postdocs and starting group leaders. It covers aspects such as finding the right funding opportunity, evaluating suitable topics for a successful grant application, 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 hundred of grants, professionals from funding bodies such as NOW and experience stories from similar-stage researchers.

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 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 strenghten business network for future partnerships.

The BioBusiness Winter Retreat is a three-day course, aimed at PhD candidates, postdocs and young professionals who want to expand their knowledge and insights in the Life Sciences sector. The course expands the insight into the trends and developments in the Life Sciences sector in three days, provides examples of emerging business models and discusses strategies for partnering, intellectual property and financing. In addition to business topics, the program, with leading speakers and experts from the BioBusiness sector, also focuses on improving the soft-skills and career development. With this unique program, participants can reflect on their career and steer their career in the right direction.