White Paper on EU Life Science Careers!
As a result of the Youth Conference on European Life Science Careers, the White Paper on EU Life Science Careers has been published and distributed to government representatives across Europe.
How to solve the education challenge?
While education doesn't pay well (I am sure this is also the case in Europe), and Germany's education minister Annette Schavan is asking for engineers from the industry to increase the number of competent teachers, Bill Gates postulates that a countries prosperity is inevitably linked to the quality of its teachers and its education: At YEBN conference, we could see that all over Europe, there is a problem of well-qualified science teachers hindering access to good education and progress. I don't think Mrs Schavans idea is so bad as it is said to be by the industry - at least more ...
Links of the week
With this post, we want to share some of the information that we find online for young Life scientists. While it is not sure yet whether we really manage to make it a weekly update, find the first Links here:
Euraxess – from the Commission for scientists
At the conference, Dr. Sohail Luka presented his project Euraxess to support the scientific community of Europe. They try to keep in touch with European scientists abroad, to connect job market places and a lot more.
Conference over!
From 11th to 13th of February, 30 Life Science students from all over Europe came together in Frankfurt. During this first Conference on European Life Science Careers, they interacted with stakeholders from academia, companies and government with the aim to promote a dynamic European job market for life scientists. Speakers and discussant were Alexandra Braye, ERASUMS Institutional Coordinator at the University of Heidelberg Dr. Sohail Luka Policy Officer in the Universities & Research unit, Research Directorate General, European Commission Dr. Reinhardt G. Bergauer, PP PHARMA PLANING International Health Care Recruitment Dr. Michael Nettersheim, life sciences team of High-Tech Gruenderfonds, ...
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White Paper on EU Life Science Careers!
As a result of the Youth Conference on European Life Science Careers, the White Paper on EU Life Science Careers has been published...
How to solve the education challenge?While education doesn’t pay well (I am sure this is also the case in Europe), and Germany’s education minister Annette...
Links of the week
With this post, we want to share some of the information that we find online for young Life scientists. While it is not sure yet...
Euraxess – from the Commission for scientistsAt the conference, Dr. Sohail Luka presented his project Euraxess to support the scientific community of Europe. They try to keep...
Conference over!
From 11th to 13th of February, 30 Life Science students from all over Europe came together in Frankfurt. During this first Conference...
“Still huge potential”
Dr. Rolf Peter is involved in the policy making for German universities at national and European level as he is working for the...
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While education doesn’t pay well (I am sure this is also the case in Europe), and Germany’s education minister Annette Schavan is asking for engineers from the industry to increase the number of competent teachers, Bill Gates postulates that a countries prosperity is inevitably linked to the quality of its teachers and its education:
At YEBN conference, we could see that all over Europe, there is a problem of well-qualified science teachers hindering access to good education and progress. I don’t think Mrs Schavans idea is so bad as it is said to be by the industry – at least more personal involvement of individuals, especially scientists, on a local level for schools could be a very good idea. Media company Gruner+Jahr set up a model where their employees can spend amounts of their regular work time for volunteer work, especially also for visiting schools and so on – a good example?
What do you think?
Find a job EU-wide: How hard can it be?There are rumors that it’s not quite easy to find a job across Europe, especially if one plans to leave academia and aims at entering industrial biotech. Here’s a good starting point:
Let us know your experiences and suggestions. Share your favorite job portals with us and tell us what keeps you from taking a job in other EU countries!
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