Europe’s Leading Biotechnology Congress

The 16th European Congress on Biotechnology is organised by the European Federation of Biotechnology. The congress features 150+ speakers, 1,000 scientific posters and 50+ exhibitors. Over 1,400 delegates are expected to attend the congress from leading biotechnology companies, government and regulatory bodies, universities, research institutes, learned societies, national associations and many more. Participants have the

EU funding for Youth Initiatives

The new ERASMUS plus programme (before: Youth in Action) funds activities organised by young people, for example the Youth conference on European Life Science Careers (sorry, link not working at the moment) or the Intercultural communication workshop The full Guide of the programme is online on the Erasmus Plus website see page 67 for description

Volunteering opportunities

Dear YEBN members, Did you have a good break in Christmas? We hope so! New years always come with loads of exciting and interesting opportunities! The YEBN always aims to offer you the best of the services and that is why we have just developed and launched the “Volunteering opportunities brochure”!. This brochure will allow

Innovation conference in Cambridge 27th-28th Feburary

The Innovation Forum in Cambrigde organises a big conference about innovation in life sciences, biotechnology, health care, engineering and IT. From 27th – 28t February 2014, be presented with the latest technologies from innovative companies, discover new perspectives in innovation and get advice about creating a start-up company. Speakers include biotech company directors, scientifc officiers

ScieCon job fair – 23rd Oct 2013 in Bochum, Germany

The biotechnologische Studenteninitiative e.V. is organising a big biotech & life science job fair in Bochum, Germany. Exhibitors like Qiagen, Mylteni Biotech, Provadis Professionals, KWS SAAT, and Evonik have also expressed their interest in international employees. The event will take place at the Ruhr University Bochum from 10.00 to 17.00 on the 23rd October. Entrance

Join the debate – GapSummit 2014

GapSummit 2014 is the world’s first inter-generational leadership summit in Biotechnology. 100 young leaders of tomorrow from across the world will be selected to debate with research pioneers, industrial leaders, venture capitalists and policy makers. Application for young leaders of tomorrow close on the 22nd of December 2013. More information on http://gap.globalbiotechrevolution.com/

YEBN annual meeting

Dear all, The YEBN annual meeting will take place on Sunday, 1st December in Heidelberg, Germany. This is an opportunity to meet up with fellow young scientists and to find out what is happening in the European community of young biotechnologists and life scientists. More details about the programme will follow in the coming month.

25 % discount for Naturejobs Career Expo!

Naturejobs Career Expo will take place on the 19th of September in London. With more than 50 exhibitors and a conference programme full of inspiring sessions, this is a career conference not to miss out on! YEBN is happy to announce that we negotiated a £10 discount on the registration fee for all our members.

Comm4Biotech2 29th-30th Nov. in Heidelberg

NGB (http://www.biotechnologistes.fr) and btS (http://www.bts-ev.de/) are currently organising the second Comm4Biotech Science communication conference.If you like to communicate your research to the public, or if you are interested in job opportunities in science communication, this conference might be for you. see the preliminary programme: http://www.biotechnologistes.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Comm4biotech2-congress_presentation.pdf If you are interested, please let the organisers know by

Forum Biotechno in Strasbourg, France

The network Biotechno – association of PhD and future PhD (all fields) – called Addal for the Alsace group – organizes on next Friday 7th June its Forum BIOTechno 2013. Consult the full programme on the website : http://strasbourg.forum-biotechno.com/?p=programme&PHPSESSID=736c793f1b41f69a10c5b4d8d1bee5b3. All conferences and workshops are in English. Come and meet potential employers from companies – participate in workshop (such as one about

New YEBN logo

After long internal discussions and input of dedicated professional and semi-professional layouters, YEBN has decided on a new logo. Find it on the top of the website and here – we hope you like it as much as we do! Thanks to all those who gave input!