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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