Biosafety in Biotechnology: Connecting Academia with the Bioeconomy Market Erasmus Project

Project Title

Biosafety in Biotechnology: Connecting Academia with the Bioeconomy Market

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

The International Hellenic University’s MSc in Bioeconomy Law, Regulation and Management is designed to develop technological, financial, legal, and managerial expertise for people who intend to work in public or private services dealing with the studies, consultation, management, regulation and development of biotechnological processes and products. It targets to provide with real world skills the professionals involved in health care facilities, pharmaceutical and medical equipment companies, food production and in general in the agro/industrial sector (agricultural, chemical, energy industries, biochemical industries etc.) as well as research centers and universities, and the scientists who deal with specific legal, biosafety and bioethical issues in biotechnology, pharmacy, health, biochemistry, engineering and environmental sciences.
The aim of the proposed partnership action is to enrich the curriculum of two taught courses in the MSc, the “Biolaw, Biosafety and Environment” and the “Biomedicine and Law” in connection to related recent technological achievements, in order to increase the Programme’s alumni connections to the Bioeconomy market in the fields of biosafety management and biorisk assessment in regards to environmental protection, and to clinical research safety and ethics. To achieve this, the other two partners are companies that have a specialized know-how in the safe use of biological material with respect to the environment, public health, biomedicine practices, clinical research and the full spectrum of biosafety-related principles in general. The students and the academic stuff of the Programme will gain valuable insight from real-life case studies presented and analyzed by the companies’ experts and knowledge of the needs of the market. Students will also have the opportunity to work on real-life projects proposed by the partners in different sectors (e.g. agri-food, health, industry), and with different stakeholders (authorities, industry). At the same time, the companies’ biosafety and regulatory specialists will acquire up-to-date academic knowledge of novel biotechnological breakthrough tools used in agro-industrial, marine, environmental and red biotechnology area (e.g. Next Generation Sequencing, bioinformatic analysis, Gene Modification, CRISPR, Genetic Engineering and Recombinant DNA). Furthermore, the clinical research experts will get informed by the University’s academic legal experts on Biolaw, about the regulative directions concerning Biomedicine Law and clinical research biosafety management, according to the up-to-date European legislation and directives.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 224469 Eur

Project Coordinator

DIETHNES PANEPISTIMIO ELLADOS & Country: EL

Project Partners

• ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS LEIDEN
• PERSEUS BVBA