UB finishes the coordination of the Eurolife network with a symposium on neurosciences

Per Svenningsson, professor from Karolinska Instituet (Sweeden), was awarded the Eurolife medal.
Per Svenningsson, professor from Karolinska Instituet (Sweeden), was awarded the Eurolife medal.
Research
(25/10/2017)

The University of Barcelona, in charge of coordinating the  Eurolife university network during the period 2015-2017, held, on October 24 and 25, three meetings for this network which assessed the task that has been carried out and conducted the transfer to the new coordinator: the University Medical Center Göttingen (2018-2020). Specifically, the ones that met were the Eurolife Education Alliance, the Eurolife Steering Committee and the administrators of the network.

Per Svenningsson, professor from Karolinska Instituet (Sweeden), was awarded the Eurolife medal.
Per Svenningsson, professor from Karolinska Instituet (Sweeden), was awarded the Eurolife medal.
Research
25/10/2017

The University of Barcelona, in charge of coordinating the  Eurolife university network during the period 2015-2017, held, on October 24 and 25, three meetings for this network which assessed the task that has been carried out and conducted the transfer to the new coordinator: the University Medical Center Göttingen (2018-2020). Specifically, the ones that met were the Eurolife Education Alliance, the Eurolife Steering Committee and the administrators of the network.

During the time in which Eurolife was coordinated by the Vice-Rectorʼs Office for Research of the UB, two new projects -such as the Eurolife Summer School- were launched. The first edition of this summer school that took place in July in Barcelona, will continue next year in the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC, Netherlands), and will cover the topic of Molecular Mechanisms in Cancer - Translating Discoveries into Personalized Therapies. The Eurolife Mobility Program and the Scholarship for Early Career Researchers are other initiatives which are related to mobility for young researchers (bachelor degree, master degree and postdoctoral students), launched by Eurolife and from which more than fifty researchers and students have benefited. In addition, another program to promote new collaborations between three or more universities from the network to conduct European research project has been promoted.

 

Eurolife symposium on neurosciences

As the closing ceremony for this period, the University of Barcelona organized the Eurolife Autumn Symposium 2017, together with the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB and the Master degree in Neurosciences. Per Svenningsson, professor from Karolinska Instituet (Sweden) was awarded the Eurolife medal and gave the final conference of the ceremony.

 

About Eurolife

Eurolife is a consortium created in 1999 and composed by eight European institutions committed to research and higher education in the field of life and health sciences. The main objectives of the network are to promote transnational interactions by means of research collaboration, and to ensure that academic activities have a European dimension by developing postgraduate programmes, providing study fellowships and promoting student mobility programmes.

Apart from the UB, partner institutions are: the Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom), the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC, Netherlands), the Karolinska Institute (Sweden), the University Medical Center Göttingen, the University of Strasbourg (France), the Medical University of Innsbruck (Austria) and the Semmelweis University (Hungary).