Scientific and soft skills training programs offering a unique opportunity for participants to interact closely, exchange ideas and experiences, and learn from world-renowned speakers and network with peers

 

Scientific Program (9-11 March)

Consist of plenary/tutorial lectures to be delivered by world-renowned scientists (see below) and oral and poster presentations selected from contributed abstracts submitted by participants in fields that include:

• Dynamic, adaptive, self-healing and injectable polymeric hydrogels;
• (Multi)stimuli-responsive soft biomaterials;
• 3D and 4D (bio)printed multifunctional (bio)materials;
• Multiscale/hierarchical biomaterials;
• Bioinstructive surfaces and structures;
• Biomimetic and bioinspired supramolecular structures and molecular systems; and
• Their use, and their use in nanomedicine, drug/therapeutics delivery, biosensing, tissue engineering or regenerative medicine.

 

Soft Transferable Skills’ Training Program (12-14 March)

This event will also include a Soft Transferable Skills’ Training Program (12-14 March) which aims to advance the professional development and widen the career perspectives of students and early-career researchers, irrespectively on their background and research domain, to outperform in their professional duties and career paths. The topics of the training sessions include:

• Job hunting in science;
• CV clinics/coaching;
• Leadership;
• Entrepreneurship and business planning;
• Roads to success;
• Social Media4Science
• How to maximize the visibility of your research;
• Networking and career development;
• The power of volunteering to advance your career;
• AI tools in practice to boost your scientific skills;
• Innovation and money making.

 

Deadline to submit an abstract for oral or poster presentation: November 15th, 2024.

Early-bird registration deadline: January 31st, 2025

 

Plenary Speakers of the Scientific Program

 

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