ANNOUNCEMENT

Conference "Academic Entrepreneurship - the future of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship" , 14. December 2012, Szczecin, Poland

The West Pomeranian Advisory Group Sp. Z oo and the Regional Center for Innovation and Technology Transfer at West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin invite to participation in the conference summarizing the project "Academic Entrepreneurship - the future of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship", which will be held on 14^th December 2012 at 10.30 am – 01.30 pm in Radisson Blu Hotel in Szczecin.

During the conference the project assumpions will be discussed and project participants will present their innovative business plans. The second part of the conference will be the award ceremony for the fifth edition of organized by Regional Center for Innovation and Technology Transfer the best thesis contest.The meeting will end with a panel discussion on the opportunities and prospects for the implementation of research results.

Participation in the conference is free of charge. More informatin can be found on website http://innowacje.zut.edu.pl/index.php/pl/Inkubator_przedsiebiorczosci/31,862

Annual Meeting South Baltic, Ronneby 23.-24. October 2012, Sweden

During the annual Meeting, the Eco4Life project was chosen to present in the first day programme a lecture on „policy making”. The project reported on its  achivements and plans related to the development of the regional and cross-border cooperation agendas and of the cooperation within the Flag ship project BSHR of ScanBalt www.scanbalt.org

The second day of the South Baltic Programme Annual Event, which took place in Ronneby, was dedicated to discussions on the future of the programme. Two workshop sessions were an opportunity for South Baltic projects and other stakeholders to discuss the preferences for the thematic scope of the future Programme and to comment on the potential improvements for the implementation procedures in the future programming 2014-2020.

Find the results of the workshops at

http://en.southbaltic.eu/news/?lang_id=2&id_news=1041

ScanBalt Forum 2012, 20.-23. November 2012, Tampere, Finland

This year on 20-23 November, the Life Science community on Top of Europe gathered  in Tampere, to exchange ideas and discuss the current state and future prospects of ScanBalt BioRegion.

The Forum was organised by the Baltic Institute of Finland together with Tampere University of Technology, Department of Biomedical Engineering and BioMediTech.

Key topics and project sessions of the Forum were be the following: 

• BioLifeScience cluster collaboration with Russia
• The new EU Programming Period 2014-2020 and the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region – EUSBSR Flagship on innovation, clusters and SME networks – BSR Stars
• ScanBalt Health Region – the Health Flagship in the EUSBSR
• ScanBalt Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Days
• BSHR HealthPort, Submariner, Eco4Life, HiCare/Baltic Amber, BSR BalticSupply, Active for Life

The Eco4Life project contributed to the Forum by a common workshop on “cross-sectoral cooperation for hospital innovation” with reports on “Sustainable healthcare cluster in South Sweden” and "Completion of the sustainable Master plan for the University hospital Rostock" from the Baltic Green HealthCare Cluster.

Find the final conference report on the ScanBalt website: www.scanbalt.org

Signing of Letter of Intend with EEN Steinbeiss Team NorthEast and Lithuanian Diabetes Association

In November 2012, the Eco4Life project signed A Letter of Intend with the partner networks of
- EEN Steinbeiss North East and

-Lithuanian Diabetes Association

The members of the organizations/networks will undertake concerted efforts for the purpose of establishing a long-term mutually beneficial collaboration in field of diabetes and technology transfer LifeScience and Green Valley.

Find more information on www.eco4life.info/network-partners.html

Training module „Internal Auditor of Enviromental System”, 26-27.11.2012 Szczecin, Poland

The project partner 2 in the Eco4Life project organized a reedition of a two days training module on 26th  and 27th November. The training was entitled “Internal Auditor of Environmental Management System” and was dedicated to employees of health care service and people responsible for enviromantal protecyion. TThe training lasted two days, eight hours per day (16 hours) and the company responsible for conducting it was Incert LtD.

Project partner 2 decided to organize the reedition of the traing, which was firstly held on 17th -18th  September due to large interest in this topic and requests from health care employees.

The aim of the training was to familiarize participants with the requirements of ISO 14001. ISO 14001 is environmental management standard which specifies a set of environmental management requirements for environmental management systems. The purpose of this standard is to help all types of organizations to protect the environment, to prevent pollution, and to improve their environmental performance. During the course requirements of ISO 14001 and methods of its interpretation were discussed in details. Particular attention was payed to areas of outstanding environmental management system in relation to other management systems, ie, the identification of environmental aspects, setting objectives and targets, environmental program management and implementation of effective controls and to ensure preparedness and response in case of emergency. Participants were also told how to organize and conduct internal audit. At the end of the training module participants who past the test, gained a certificate of Internal Auditor of Environmental Management System. The content of the training module can be found on

www.eco4life.info/enterprise-training.html