PROGRAMME OF SCANBALT FORUM 2006 AND CO-EVENTS

SEPTEMBER 21, Thursday
08.30 – 09.00	Registration at Vanemuise Conference Hall
09.00 – 09.40	Official opening of the Forum Mailis Reps, Estonian Minister of Education and Research Prof. Bo Samuelsson, Chairman of ScanBalt Organisation Dr. Jaanus Pikani, Chairman of Estonian Genome Foundation Ceremony of official establishment of ScanBalt Academy Prof. Kaare Norum, Chairman of ScanBalt Academy
09.40 – 10.10	Per Unckel, Secretary General, Nordic Council of Ministers "The Baltic Sea  region – top of Europe"
10.10 – 10.40	Dr. Luis Minguez, European Commission "Health in the 7th EU Framework Programme for Research and Development"
10.40 – 11.10	Esa Toumi, First Vice President and Sales Director Corporate, Nordea Bank in Poland and Baltic Countries "Access to financing from Banks"
11.10 – 11.40	Dr. Kaisa Kononen, Program Manager, Academy of Finland "Joint Baltic Sea research: BONUS -169"
11.40 - 12.00	Coffee break
12.00 – 13.30	Parallel sessions I  ScanBalt Campus – Towards a Knowledge Based Bio Economy Baltic Sea Initiative 2010 Core Group meeting Communication in ScanBalt BioRegion ScanBalt Campus Knowledge Network - Regenerative Medicine workshop
13.30 – 14.30	Lunch
14.30 – 16.00	Parallel sessions II  BioPartnering Asia-Europe-Asia Baltic Sea Initiative 2010 Core Group meeting continues  Development of tax incentive systems for biotech SME´s ScanBalt Campus Knowledge Network - Regenerative Medicine workshop continues
16.00 – 16.20	Coffee break
16.20 – 18.00	Parallel sessions III ScanBalt CompetenceRegion: The role of "competence hubs" and "competence satellites" for future prospect of ScanBalt BioRegion Intellectual Property and Genetics: Access, Utilization, and Commercialization Partnership with Black Sea bioregion
20.00	Tartu University's Reception in Dome Church
SEPTEMBER 22, Friday
09.30 – 10.10	Prof. Kaare Norum, University of Oslo, Norway "Nutrition, from Basic Science to Public Health"
10.10 – 10.50	Prof. Sylvia Rohr, Board Member of the Steinbeis Foundation, Germany "Bottlenecks in life sciences commercialisation and future task of technology transfer"
10. 50 – 11.10	Coffee break
11.10 – 11.40	Harry Zilliacus, Senior Advisor, NordForsk "NordForsk – an  instrument for the support of research and education in Northern Europe"
11.40 – 12.20	Pekka Lindroos, Chief Counsellor, Ministry of Trade and Industry of Finland "European biotech competitiveness"
12. 20 – 13.30	Lunch
13.30 – 18.00	Gene Forum 2006 presentations. Find detail programme at www.geneforum.ee
20.00	Tartu Mayor's Reception with Buffet Dinner for participants of ScanBalt Forum and Gene Forum 2006
SEPTEMBER 23, Saturday
08.30 – 15.00	Boosting Baltic workshop “Get ready for the 7th EU research framework programme"
09.00 – 17.50	Gene Forum 2006 presentations. Find detail programme at www.geneforum.ee