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...]

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! Picture: “Tino Höfert” / www.jugendfotos.de, CC-Lizenz (by) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.de  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 →