Task Group on International Relations

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EFBIC Red proudly hostsInformation Partnering
Forum onGenomics, Health and AgeingBarcelona,
September 14-15, 2007
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EFB Sections

• Agri-Biotechnology
• Chairman, Johan Sanders (Waageningen/NL)
• Applied Biocatalysis
• Chairman, Maurice C.R. Franssen, (Wageningen/NL)
• Applied Functional Genomics
• Chairman, Marco Soria (Cantanzaro/I)
• Biochemical Engineering Science
• Chairman, Sven-Olof Enfors (Stockholm/SE)
• Biodiversity
• Chairman, Klaus Ammann (Bern/CH)
• Environmental Biotechnology
• Chairman, Thomas Egli (Dübendorf/CH)
• Microbial Physiology
• Chairman, Jeff Cole (Birmingham/UK)
• Medicines Development
• Chairman, Jorgen Dirach (Copenhagen/DK)
• NanoBiotechnology
• Chairman, Patrick Boisseau (Grenoble/F)
• Associated Section on Pharma Medical
  Biotechnology (EAPB)

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EFB Task Groups

• Public Perceptions of Biotechnology
• Chairman, Richard Braun, Bern/CH
• International Relations
• Chairman, Brian Clark, Aarhus/DK
• Education and Mobility
• Chairman, Charles Bryce, Edinburgh/UK
• Innovation
• Chairman, Bo Heiden, Gothenburg/S
• Safety in Biotechnology
• Chairman, William Moens, Brussels/B
• European Action on Global Life Sciences
• Chairman,David McConnell, Dublin/IRL

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ive Board http//www.efbweb.org/who/exbo.htm Reg
ional Branch Offices http//www.efbweb.org/rbo/rb
oview.htm Task Group on International
Relations http//www.efbinternational.org Task
Group on Public Perceptions of
Biotechnology http//www.efbweb.org/task/taskview
.htm

• ? Executive Board Members and Task Group Chairmen
• ? EFB Co-Offices and Regional Branch Offices

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Task Group on International Relations

• TGIR is an activity under the aegis of EFB
  (European Federation of Biotechnology) aiming to
  facilitate national and international (European
  and global) interactions

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Mission of TGIR

• TGIR's role is to provide EFB, the European
  Commission and other organisations with contacts,
  avenues and proposals on how to implement the
  mission of EFB with respect to international
  relations, in particular focussing on countries
  outside Europe.

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Mission of TGIR

• TGIR will foster an internationally-oriented
  entrepreneurial spirit in Europe by encouraging
  technology transfer and commercialisation
  resulting in start-up companies.
• EFB will thus support training of management
  skills and networking of financing opportunities.

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Mission of TGIR

• TGIR will discuss and formulate strategic
  considerations and proposals on how the European
  Union best can handle strategic relations in
  biotechnology and the life sciences related to
  innovation, research, human capital, training,
  infrastructures, public perception and ethical
  issues.

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TGIR Activities

• EFB has received approval from the EC INCO
  programme for the EFBIC (European Focus on
  Biotechnology in China) project.
• EFB is the pan-European organisation well placed
  to facilitate broad interaction and collaboration
  between Europe and China in innovation, research
  and training in the field of biotechnology.
• EFBIC is a joint programme between EFB (TGIR) and
  CNCBD (Chinese National Centre for Biotechnology
  Development)

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EFBIC Mission

• - establish strategic relations with high-level
  decision-makers and scientists from Europe and
  China
• - works to encourage, develop and facilitate
  cooperative research and innovation

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EFBIC Workshops

• China-EU Workshops Fora on key topics of mutual
• scientific and commercial interest to
• review cutting-edge science in Europe and
  China
• identify fields of common interests for
  cooperation
• bring scientists to meet personally to build
  relations and long term interactions
• plan collaborations and submissions of proposals
  to the European Commissions 7th Framework
  Programme (FP7)

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Plans for EFBIC2

• Coordination of EFBIC2
• European Federation of Biotechnology Task Group
  on International relations
• China National Centre for Biotechnology
  Development China Europe Bureau for Cooperation
• Scientific and Strategic Management Boards
• EFBIC Offices

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Plans for EFBIC2

• Action 1 Scientific Network of excellence
• To promote and set-up joint research
  cooperation, Strategic planning and advising to
  EC and MOST
• Organisations to involve
• Network organised by main fields of research /
  topics of interest and coordinators can be
  identified by horizon-scanning workshop(s)
• Series of workshops to review the cutting-edge
  science and facilitate person-to-person contact

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Plans for EFBIC2

• c. Action 2 Promotion of cooperation, support
  and advice in partner search and proposal
  submission
• CECO China-Europe Cooperation Office
• NCPs National Contact Points
• Partners search services website/database
• provide up-to-date info on FP6 and other funding
• Workshops for promotion of cooperation and
  help/information on funding programmes both in EU
  and China

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Plans for EFBIC2

• d. Action 3 Information and promotion
• EFBIC Offices
• Collection (fact finding missions/ reports) and
  dissemination (publication/ newsletter/ website)
  of information on European and Chinese research
• Relation with media (e.g. Series of articles in
  Nature on Chinese and/or joint research)
• Promotion of joint research programme and EFBIC
  on major conferences / science fair in Europe and
  China
• all information derived from EFBIC activities
  will be made available on the website

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EFBIC Red proudly hostsInformation Partnering
Forum onGenomics, Health and AgeingBarcelona,
September 14-15, 2007
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EFBIC Red

• Project acronym EFBIC Red
• EC Specific Support Action
• Duration 2 years April 1st 2007-March 31st 2009

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EFBIC Red Strategic Objectives

• To promote and facilitate the participation of
  Chinese scientists in EU Framework Programme
  consortia and EU scientists in Chinese research
  programmes in relation to the current Life
  Sciences, Genomics and Biotechnology for Health
  Programme and appropriate subsequent Seventh
  Framework Programme instruments in close
  coordination with the European Commission
• To monitor and evaluate the health research
  policies of the EU and China and best cooperation
  practices between them, especially as they relate
  to the development of the EU Seventh Framework
  Programme (FP7) and China's mid- and long-term
  (10 to 20 year) strategy

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EFBIC Red Strategic Objectives

• To review the current state of knowledge in the
  relevant science and technology of shared
  interest and define strategies for the
  application of this knowledge to selected
  objectives of common purpose
• To build on and extend the already-established
  research and development networks, offices and
  national contact points in the EU and China from
  an earlier phase of EFBIC (European Focus on
  Biotechnology with China) for RD cooperation.

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EFBIC Red Partners
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EFBIC Red SSMB Board China

• Prof. Guo De-an, Beijing Medical University
• Prof. Mu ZHANG, China National Center for
  Biotechnology Development, China
• Prof. Xuetao CAO, Second Military Medical
  University, China
• Prof. Zhu CHEN,Vice President of Chinese Academy
  of Sciences, China
• Prof. Yixue LI, Bioinformation Centre Shanghai
  Institute for Biological Sciences, China
• Prof. Depei LIU, China Academy of Medical
  Science, China, Co- Scientific Chairman EFBIC Red
• Prof. Xuetao PEI, Beijing Institute of
  Transfusion, Beijing
• Prof. Xiao-Min Wang, Capital University of
  Medical Sciences, Dept. of Physiology
• Prof. Yu-mei WEN, Medical Centre of Fudan
  University, China
• Prof. Wang Hongguang, Director-General, China
  National Centre for Biotechnology Development,
  China. Co-Strategic Chairman EFBIC Red
• Representative of MOST, Chinese Minestery of
  Science and Technology

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EFBIC Red SSMB Board Europe

• Prof. Brian Clark, Aarhus University, Denmark,
  Co- Scientific Chairman EFBIC Red
• Prof. Wilhelm Ansorge, Institute of Advanced and
  Emerging Technology, EMBL, Germany
• Prof. Lars Bolund, Institute of Human Genetics,
  Aarhus, Denmark
• Dr. Werner Christie, Scientific Counsellor,
  Embassy of Norway in China
• Prof. Antoine Danchin, Institut Pasteur, France
• Prof. Børge Diderichsen, Vice-President, Novo
  Nordisk A/S, Denmark
• Prof. Claudio Franceschi, University of Bologna,
  Italy
• Prof. David McConnell, Smurfit Institute of
  Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Prof. Peter Rigby, University of London, United
  Kingdom
• Prof. Mathias Uhlén, AlbaNova University Center,
  Stockholm
• Dr. Jens Sundbye, EFB, Aarhus Regional Branch
  office C/O Bio Medico Forum, Co-Strategic
  Chairman EFBIC Red
• Representative of the European Commission
• Representative from the partners

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EFBIC Red Overall aim

• The overall aim of this project is the
  establishment of new research collaborations of
  urgent common interest in the life sciences,
  genomics and biotechnology for health area with
  collaborative EU-China networks and to build on
  good relations and achievements established
  during the earlier EFBIC programme.
• Its purpose is to respond to the ever-growing
  scientific and commercial importance of China for
  the EU in the life sciences, genomics and
  biotechnology for health field and to the shared
  interests for collaboration. Its focus is both on
  developing joint EU-China research and strategies
  and on encouraging the participation of Chinese
  scientists in EU Framework Programme research
  consortia.
• The project will review and define strategies in
  this field and strengthen scientific cooperation
  in the immediate and longer term between the EU
  and China. It will be carried out in close
  collaboration between the EFB (sponsored by the
  European Commission), Europe Unlimited, FFG, APRE
  and the CNCBD sponsored by MOST.

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EFBIC Red Overall aim

• EFBIC Red aims to establish cooperative relations
  between leading researchers in Europe and China
  in the field of the life sciences, health and
  biotechnology.
• In cooperation with science, industry and public
  interest organizations, EFBIC will work to
  encourage, develop and facilitate cooperative
  strategies and activities in research,
  innovation, commercial development and training.

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EFBIC Red Scientific Areas

• Identified scientific topics with potential of
  promoting European Chinese corporation.
• Initially a number of scientific areas have been
  identified as below and described by the SSMB
  participatory members
• 1) Traditional Chinese Medicine Prof.Guo De-an
  and Prof.
• Depei Liu
• 2) Regenerative Medicine Prof. Xuetao Pei
• 3) Diabetes Prof. Børge Diderichsen
• 4) Genomics for Health Prof. Zhau Chen and Prof.
  Lars
• Bolund
• 5) Ageing. Prof. Claudio Franceschi and Prof.
  Brian Clark
• 6) Infectious diseases Prof. Yu-mei Wen and
  Prof. Qi Jin

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