OREANDA-NEWS. On 22 July 2009 was announced, that Russian National Contact Point on FP-TP 2 “Biotechnology, Agriculture, and Food” - Bio-NCP of Russia A.N.Bakh Institute of Biochemistry RAS - and Zukunfts Agentur Brandenburg GmbH (ZAB) within the co-project “German-Russian Cooperation Network Biotechnology” implementation framework, will hold the Second Forum “Russia and Germany in the Common European Space. German-Russian Cooperation Network Biotechnology” on 11-13 November 2009, in Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia).

The Forum Aim is to create consortiums for joint participation in the 7th Framework Programme; to establish scientific, innovative, and business partnerships between the participants for commercialization of technologies, organization of innovative industries, and promotion of competitive next generation biotechnological products to Russian and German markets, and identification of the best innovative projects in the field of biotechnology.

The Forum Objectives:

- The integration of innovative Russian Biology Science potential for solving both current problems within the Russian Biotechnological sector and the challenges of the global science intensive economy;

- The creation of conditions for effective and mutually beneficial scientific and business contact-building between Russian and German partners in order to promote competitive next generation biotechnological products to Russian and German markets;

- Attracting investment for the launch and effective implementation of innovative biotechnological projects;

- Creating conditions to accelerate the international transfer of educational and scientific-industrial technologies in the field of living systems.

The Forum Themes:

1. Co-project ‘German-Russian Cooperation Network Biotechnology’: achievements, problems and perspectives.

2. Innovative clusters and technoparks - the basis of the Knowledge-based Bioeconomy

3. Project Gate2RURIN: Russia-Germany-the European Union

4. Integrated Biorefinary - new challenges and new opportunities

5. Technological platform “Industrial Biotechnology” (Russia) and Cluster Industrial Biotechnologie (CLIB) 2021 (Germany) - international cooperation in the Common European Space.

6. Fraunhofer Gesellschaft – a unique experience of co-operation and development.

7. Presentation of the project 7 FP BIO CIRCLE (Creating a CIRCLE by extending the BIO NCP network to Third Country NIPs).

The Forum offers unique opportunities for biotechnological, pharmaceutical and energy companies, SMEs, research institutes, universities, and investors from Russia and Germany to meet, to get to know each other, to share ideas, and to discuss perspectives of development in biotechnology, bioindustry, bioenergy, bioeconomics, to discuss possible joint business projects, and to create consortiums for co-operative participation in the 7th Framework Programme.