Scandinavian Baltic shared curricula

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Scandinavian Baltic shared curricula in
Biotechnology Life and Environmental
Sciences -Research networking -Master courses
and programmes -New collaborations PhD
courses Katarina Gårdfeldt, Project manager
ScanBalt Campus.
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ScanBalt BioRegion
www.scanbalt.org
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Where?
11 countriesDenmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland,
Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden, North
Germany, Northwestern Russia. 85 million
people 67 universities gt 800 biotech companies
ScanBalt BioRegion
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Who ?

• ScanBalt fmba, founded in august 2004
• Non profit member based association
• Triple helix (academia industry authorities)
• Vision BB (Borderless Biotech)
• Goals
• Knowledge formation education
• Commercialisation
• Forum for discussion onbiotech society impact

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Why?

• No individual biovally, biocluster, university or
  company has the critical mass
• to be visible globally and to attract human,
  economic and other resources
• to compete with major biovalleys and bioclusters
  internationally like Boston, San Fransisco,
  Chapel Hill
• Very few existing biovalleys in Northern Europe
  has reached the mode 3 status where there is a
  productive mix of large, small and middlesized
  companies, academic research and education and
  applied research

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How?

• By shaping a meta-network we can together
• Promote information, communication and create
  visibility
• Create identity infrastructure
• Focus on competences and complementarities
• Shape critical mass
• By using bottom up action lines we can make it a
  strong force
• By working together we can form a platform for
  dialogue with supranational institutions and
  increase the financing possibilities in ie. EU,
  the Nordic Council of Ministers
• By working together we can give added value for
  all partners in the metaregional value chain

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ScanBalt bodies

• Executive committee
• Representatives of founding members
• Chairmanship
• Chairman Bo Samuelsson
• Vice chairmen/women Wolfgang Blank, Boerge
  Diderichsen, Jaanus Pikani
• Joint secretariat
• General secretary Peter Frank

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Funding members

• Networks
• BioCon Valley
• Bioforum Oulu/Technopolis
• BioMedico Forum
• BioTeam South
• Biotop Berlin
• BioTurku
• Estonian Biotech Association
• MedCoast Scandinavia
• Medicon Valley Academy
• Norgenta/Bay to Bio
• Öresund Science Region

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Funding members

• Universities and Res.Inst.
• Baltic University
• Biomed. Res. Univ. Of Latvia
• Center for Intell.Prop.Studies
• Inst. of Biotechnology, Vilnius
• Inst. of Exp. Med. St.Petersburg
• Sahlgrenska Univ. Hospital
• Medical Univ. Of Gdansk
• Linköping University
• Lund University
• Marine Res. Inst. Iceland
• University of Gdansk
• University of Göteborg
• University of Helsinki
• University of Kalmar
• University of Rostock

• Under membership negotiation
• University of Lübeck medical faculty
• Åbo Academy
• Åbo University
• Åbo Buisinees School
• Tallin University of Technology
• University of Hamburg

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Funding members

• Industry/Tech Transfer
• Centre of Tech.Transfer, Gdansk
• Hedmark Innovation Center/BioInn
• Helsinki Business and Science Park
• Innovation Norway
• Novo Nordisk
• Lithuanian Innovation Center
• Steinbeis Foundation

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Institutional Members

• Activision Life SA
• Adam Mickiewicz Univ.
• Chalmers University of Technology
• Institute of Fundamental Technological Research,
  Warsaw
• Kaliningrad Regional Economic Development Agency
• Nordic Inst. Of Dental Materials
• Scandinavian International Management Institute
• Technical University of Denmark
• Turku Biomaterial centre
• University of Bremen, Centre of Applied
  Gensensorik
• Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppemdorf
• Tartu Biotechnology Park
• Monsanto Crops Sciences Sweden AB
• Triip Ltd

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Some funded projects
MetaregionaI identity and infrastructure
Thematic projects networks of competence

• ScanBalt IP Knowledge Network (EU FP6)
• ScanBalt Marine Biotech (NorFA)
• ScanBalt Clinical Research Network (NICe)
• ScanBalt AgroBiotech (NorFA)
• ScanBalt Stem Cell Network (NorFA)
• Lignin as Raw Material for Chemicals (NICe)

• ScanBalt Campus (Interreg IIIB)
• ScanBalt Network of Networks (NICe)
• ScanBalt Competence Region (EU FP6)
• Boosting Baltic FP6 (EU FP6)
• Educational mobility (NICe)
• Economic Barriers for borderless Cooperation
  (NICe)
• Biotech, one click away (NICe)
• Communication (NICe)

Total funding 4 M EURO
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Conditions for ScanBalt projects

• Member of ScanBalt (Funding or Institutional)
• Follow simple project guidelines
• Serve ScanBalt BioRegion

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ScanBalt Campus Creating Critical Mass and
Mobility in Education and Research
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31 Partners
Centre for Environment and Sustainability
(SE) University of Copenhagen (DK) Copenhagen
Business School (DK) Danish University of Pharm.
Sciences (DK) BioMedicoForum (DK) Øresund
Environment Academy (SE/DK) Aalborg University
(DK) Novo Nordisk(DK) Turku BioValley
(FI) University of Oulu (FI) Aabo Academy
(FI) Helsinki University (FI) Turku School of
Economics (FI) Steinbeis Transfer Center
(DE) Norgenta (DE) TuTech Innovation (DE)
BBB Management (DE) BioConValley (DE) University
of Rostock (DE) Göteborg University (SE) MedCoast
Scandinavia (NO/SE) University of Kalmar
(SE) Öresunds University (SE/DK) Center for IP
studies (SE) Norwegian School of Vet. Sci.
(NO) Estonian Genome Foundation (EE) P. Stradins
University Hospital (LV) Fermentas (LT) Medical
University of Gdansk (PL) University of Gdansk
(PL) Research Inst. of Exp Medicine (RU)
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Strategic challenges for ScanBalt Campus

• Pioneering in putting the Bologna process into
  practise
• No university alone hosts leading expertise in
  all disciplines in the biotech and life science
  area
• Improve collaboration with industry and hospitals
• Attract resources for research and education
• Improve balance between demand and supply of
  education
• Improve flexibility in a rapidly changing
  scientific area

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Scanbalt Campus board

• Bo Samuelsson, Göteborg University, Sweden
  (chairman)
• Horst Klinkmann, BioCon Valley, Germany
• Wieslaw Makarewicz, Medical University of Gdansk
  Poland
• Børge Diderichsen, Vice President, Novo Nordisk,
  Denmark
• Valdis Pirags, P.Stradins University Hospital,
  Latvia.

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ScanBalt Academy

• Kaare Norum, chair, Oslo
• Leena Peltonen, vicechair, Helsinki
• Criteria endorsed by the Scanbalt ExCo
• The academy now has 25 members from 11 countries
  and regions, one Nobel Prize laureate

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• Introduction to ScanBalt Campus Knowledge
  Networks
• Transnational, thematic, networks in research and
  education, connects key competencies and creates
  critical mass.
• The activities have to be inside life sciences
  and biotechnology
• Activities can be both research and education
• Requirement of mobility between at least two
  countries
• Activities to be based on win-win situations for
  the partners
• - When possible activities should strengthen
  links to industry

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Knowledge Networks

• Molecular DiagnosticsUniversity of
  Gdansk/Medical University of Gdansk.
• Regenerative MedicineUniversity of Rostock and
  BioCon Valley, Germany
• Environmental BiotechnologyGöteborg University,
  Sweden.
• Informational Biology. Åbo Akademi University,
  Finland.
• Process Analytical Technology (PAT)Linköping
  University, Sweden

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Knowledge Networks

• Intellectual Property and Bio-entrepreneurshipCha
  lmers University, Göteborg, Sweden.
• Baltic Entrepreneurship TrainingBaltic
  Entrepreneurship Centre, Rostock, Germany.
• Education and training of leaders for the life
  science industry of the future
  Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
• High quality training for small and medium
  enterprises in the field of life sciences in the
  ScanBalt Region
• TuTech Innovation GmbH
• Diagnostics and Therapeutics based on IgY
  technology
• University of Hamburg

Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Pending
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ScanBalt
ScanBalt Executive committee
ScanBalt projects
Infrastructural
Competence Region
Boost. Baltic Biot. FP6
ScanBalt Campus
Thematic
ScanBalt Academy
ScanBalt Marine Netw.
Lund Universtity
Strandins University Hospital
Clinical Research Netw.
Tallinn University of Technology
IP Knowledge Center
Agrobiotech
Stem Cells
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ScanBalt Executive committee
ScanBalt Campus Board
Universities, companies, partners
Regenerative medicine




Environmental biotechnology


Molecular diagnostics
Intellectual Property and Bio-entrepreneurship
Baltic Entrepreneurship Training
Knowledge networks
Informational Biology
University of Turku Åbo Akademi
Novo Nordisk
Lund University
Gdansk University
Rostock University
University of Helsinki
Greisfwald University
Göteborg University
ScanBalt Academy
Education and training of leaders for the life
science industry of the future
Process Analytical Technology (PAT)
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Summer schools

Individual coarses
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ScanBalt Campus Knowledge networks how to
approach to shared curricula!?
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Shared Curricula in many different ways

• Exchanging lectures and seminars in Knowledge
  NetworksBy getting information on what is done
  in other universities there could be exchanges of
  good lectures, where you go to another university
  personally or have your seminar over the
  internet. In both cases, the seminars broaden the
  information available in the subject area.
• Acceptance of courses in higher educationBy the
  Bologna system of higher education, it will be
  easier to accept courses in a subject area from
  other universities at the home university
  education examination. At the SBC home page the
  courses in a subject area will be easy to find
  for the students. The Knowledge Networks will do
  this listing of courses.
• Building new, ScanBalt Masters ProgramsThe
  Knowledge Networks could when they see the
  different courses for the Masters level also
  build a special ScanBalt Masters Program with the
  same name as the Knowledge Network or another
  subject area.

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Shared Curricula in many different ways

• Exchanging PhD students and PhD coursesBy
  information on positions as PhD students in
  different universities of the Knowledge Networks
  there could be a exchange of knowledge. Also the
  PhD courses could be offered to a broader group
  of PhD students, when announced at the SBC home
  page.
• Exchanging available positionsBy information on
  the home page we could also have a more specified
  information on positions as post-graduate,
  teacher, researcher as well as industry and
  hospital positions.
• Information on research and projectsA list of
  ongoing research projects and papers within the
  knowledge networks will be available on the SBC
  home page. Here will also be a good place to
  invite the best researchers in the ScanBalt area
  into new research conferences and research
  applications .

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Building new, ScanBalt Masters Programs

• What is the added value of
• Scanbalt campus curricula?
• The ScanBalt Master Program partners have
  complementing expertise beyond what any partner
  alone can offer.

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Research Cooperation

• Each Scanbalt Campus Knowledge Networks (SBC KN)
  has defined its research area
• E.g. Scientific area/focus SB KN Environmental
  Biotechnology
• Renewable energy, chemicals and new products from
  forestry and agriculture

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Nordic Environmental technology Clean, Cleaver
and Competitive Project No H06246 Lignin as
raw material for chemicals The overall
aim Utilize products from forestry and
agriculture for chemical production with initial
focus on lignin as raw material. Project
Manager Katarina Gårdfeldt, Centre for
Environment and Sustainability, GMV, Chalmers and
Göteborg University
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Lignin as raw material for chemicals

• Why?
• The aromatic and/or phenolic precursors for many
  chemicals are generally based on mineral oils.
• Due to our need to limit greenhouse and climate
  change effects we will have to find several
  renewable alternatives to oil consumption.
• The last years the price of the oil has reached
  very high levels.
• A substantial amount of the fossil oil that is
  today used for production of certain chemicals
  can be competitively replaced by alternative
  processes based on lignin as raw material

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Project Summary

• This project aims efficiently upgrade lignin
  fractions which will provide significant steps
  towards sustainable solutions for the society.
• Compile methods for processing the lignin,
  characterize potential yield and potential market
  value.
• Explore the possibility of replacement of
  plastics by cross-linked lignin materials.
• Create a road-map for the future to guarantee the
  efforts to launch new lignin-based products on
  the international market, beyond the present
  project.

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Lignin as raw material for chemicals

• Lignin is the second most abundant biopolymer on
  earth
• The aim of our activities in this project is to
  by-pass mother-natures slow process of forming
  oil

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Project platformHigh innovation potential!

• Research institutes and companies together host
  the knowledge on classical lignin chemistry,
  biotechnology and industrial production
• Merge to find appropriate methods for industrial
  production of lignin based chemicals having high
  commercial value.
• Novel lignin extraction process crucial for a
  large scale production of raw lignin

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Partners

• Centre for Environment and Sustainability (GMV),
  Chalmers and Göteborg University
  Coordination/project manegement
• Chalmers University of Technology, Forest
  Products and Chemical Engineering (Chalmers)
  Lignin Chemistry, processing and modification of
  lignin, separation processes that extracts lignin
  from the black liquor.
• Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry (IWC)
  Lignin structure and physico-chemical
  properties., Development of lignin matrix
  modification procedures for obtaining
  high-value-added products for environment
  protection, agriculture and industry.
• Novozymes (NVZ) Development of enzyme based
  technologies for improved processing and improved
  upgrading of lignin based products with
  commercial potentials.
• University of Helsinki (UH) lignin chemistry and
  in applications of biomimetic catalysts on
  lignocellulosic materials. UH will study e.g. the
  use of lipid peroxidation for the modification of
  industrial lignins.
• VTT Processes (VTT) Enzymatic modification of
  lignin. Lignin desulphurization by chemical
  methods. Cracking of lignin into smaller,
  phenolic components.

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Partners

• Øresund Environment Academy Dk/Se (ØEA)
  establish and facilitate networks and projects
  between researchers and private companies. In the
  project Øresund Environment Academy will take on
  the task of creating relationships with other
  actors working in the field of lignin research.
  Øresund Environment Academy will also use our
  knowledge on environmental technology (ET) export
  and collaboration with ET promoting organisations
  to promote the project.
• Södra Producer of lignin as a by-product during
  the production of wood pulp. Use of result and
  support commercialization.
• STFI-Packforsk AB Produce a variety of selected
  lignin samples (annual plant, kraft lignin, soda
  lignin) to be tested in the project. Modify the
  lignin and characterize the lignin chemically and
  physically. Evaluate the new value chain in terms
  of economy, sustainability and technical realism.
  
• VOLVO. Assist with knowledge and application for
  lignin-based replacement materials for plastics.
  Testing of performance of lignin-based
  replacement materials using climate chamer with
  various conditions for humidity, temperature and
  UV irradiation.
• Akzo Nobel User of kraft lignin. Evaluation of
  modified lignin, upgraded products and
  commercialization into our existing surfactant
  applications.
• Perstorp Specialty Chemicals Assist
  implementation of roadmap and commercialisation
  on a global market.

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ScanBalt Campus Knowledge networks how to
approach to shared curriculaDesired role and
possibilities of cities in promoting science and
research and RD based business clusters
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What is the desired role and possibilities of
cities in promoting science and research and RD
based business clusters in Scanbalt? E.g
support Liason offices1.Government in
Mecklenburg Vorpommern has offered to finance a
Scanbalt Liaison office in Rostock to handle SB
campus activities, around 200 000 E per year
during the first two years with possibility of
prolongation.2. The County of WestSweden,
Göteborg under negotiation.3. City of Helsinki,
Riga....?
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