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... [Read 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: [Read More...] Read More →
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. [Read More...] Read 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... [Read More...]
“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 Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (conference of university rectors and presidents) and one of the discussants of the Youth Conference on European Life Sciences Careers. “One of the main problems of student mobility is for sure the recognition of study achievements and foreign degrees. With the Bologna process, this issue... [Read More...]
“Europe has a lot to offer”
Most young Scientists who are interested in working abroad are looking towards America. While there are programmes fostering European exchange, much is left to be done. Vera Siegmund is working for European Research and Project Office (Eurice) and is among the speakers at the Youth Conference on European Life Sciences Careers. We did a short interview with her to gather some statements: “It is actually hard to say what are the most important... [Read More...]
Using the web to get a job
Browsing the web can sometimes be very interesting to find sources about future biotech employment. Apart from job platforms, there is much more out there. Although everyone is morning nowadays about financial crisis, Twitter, LinkedIn, XING and other social networks as well as blogs can not only keep you informed about what is going on in biotech right now – but can also potentially get you in touch with a future employee! People there are... [Read More...]
Education – the students of tomorrow
Has education changed enough to cope with the recent changes in biotechnology? How should the education be like? What are the requests of students, what are those of the industry? We try to find out – together with you. Help us discussing and developing new ideas – for the best conference and a white paper that comes out of it. Use this blog – change biotech-education. Read More →