GermanRussian

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• German-Russian
• Cooperation Network Biotechnology
• successful cooperation between Russia and Germany
  in the field of transfer in biotechnology

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Aims of the project

• Development of an effective and sustainable
  transfer system for cooperation between small and
  medium sized German and Russian scientific
  institutions and enterprises
• Combination of information and consultation by
  professional partners
• Development of qualification modules for subjects
  as
• Project cooperation
• Country-specific frameworks
• Foundation of German-Russian Start-ups

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Areas for cooperation

• Promising areas for cooperation with Russian
  scientific institution and enterprises have been
  determined
• Genomics and Proteomics
• Medical engineering and pharmaceutics
• Food biotechnology
• Molecular medicine
• Bio based products
• Bioinformatics

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Project conditions

• Duration April 2005 December 2007
• Funding
• Germany
• BMBF (Federal Ministry for Education and
  Research)
• Federal State Hessen
• Federal State Brandenburg
• Russia
• Ministry for Education and Science of the Russian
  Federation

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Project partners

• Germany
• Brandenburg Economic Development Board,
  Brandenburg (coordinator)
• East-West-Science Centre of the University of
  Kassel, Hessen
• BTI TechnologieAgentur Dresden GmbH, Saxony
• BioTOP, Berlin
• Russia
• BIOMAC Innovation, Moscow (coordinator)
• Elevar, Moscow, St. Petersburg

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Services of the project partners

• collecting and circulating sector-specific and
  country-specific information
• search for potential cooperation partners
• professional accompaniment in cooperation
  initiations
• partner matching
• management qualification
• running workshops on different topics (8
  workshops have been carried out successfully both
  in Germany and Russia)
• database with information on Russian biotech
  businesses and institutions www.bis-rus.com/bisrus
  _db (database volume now is 1120 enterprises)

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State of the project 2006

• Central contact and co-ordination points in
  Germany and Russia have been established
• Existing studies concerning Russian Biotechnology
  have been evaluated and are available
• Working tools for evaluation of co-operation
  proposals, initialisation of co-operation and the
  exchange of information have been generated
• First pilot projects have been acquired and are
  supervised by processing
• More cooperation proposals are in process
• Searching for european partners for elaborating
  of a project for FP7

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pilot projects

• SynChro
• Synthesis of peptides, the automatic solid-phase
  method for peptides synthesis in automated
  synthesizers
• Joint venture was founded in Germany (2006) for
  Project realization
• Assistance in development of BP acceptable for
  German investors by a consulting agency
• Attracted financing from International Bureau
  BMBF for marketing research in frame of starting
  international cooperation.
• E-Ventus
• e-dressing
• Construction of an adapted e-ventus system for a
  company in Russia
• Training of the employees of the Russian
  operating company
• Technical support of the plant by the e-ventus
  team
• Attracted financing from International Bureau
  BMBF for marketing research in frame of starting
  international cooperation.

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7. Framework Programme

• Aim of the project Founding an
  International Technology Transfer Network for
  Biotechnology
• Project tasks
• informational support (International Biotech
  databases development and update)
• establishing and support of international
  cooperation
• legal and patent support
• start-ups and spin-offs grounding
• attracting investments
• Teaching and training
• Joint RO projects between European scientists
  and SMEs

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Contact

• Germany
• ZAB
• Dr. Annette Wandrowski
• www.zab.eu
• annette.wandrowski_at_zab-brandenburg.de
• OWWZ
• Dr. Gabriele Gorzka
• www.owwz.de
• gorzka_at_uni-kassel.de
• Russia
• BIOMAC Innovation
• Dr. Igor Arkavy
• www.biopark.ru
• arkavy_at_biopark.ru