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RIMS and CERCAL signed an agreement with a Mexican agency (CONACYT) with the aim to stimulate Research & Development projects between Mexico and Europe (24 March 2009) -    press release

• 30-31 March 09 - Match2BioSME event: Healthcare Biotech Forum", Rome, Italy at APRE (flyer)
• 26-28 March 09 - Panama - visit to City of Knowledge
• 22-25 March 09 - Mexico - program: seminar CERCAL & official signature ceremony agreement with CONACYT & CERCAL
• 21-28 March 09 - RIMS participates in Economic Mission,  to Mexico and Panama headed by HRH Prince Philippe of Belgium
• 19-20 March 09 - FH presents at European University Association Conference in Prague (link)
• 26 Feb 09 - FH presents at EU workshop on "SMEs and Health Research: maximising outcomes of EU funded research projects - tools for success"
• 29-30 Jan 09 - Partnering event "Growth Academy" at University of Coimbra, Portugal
• 14 Jan 09 - Sounding Board European Commision in Brussels on how to improve FPO7 rules and administration

December 2008

• 8-9 Dec 08 - FH attends EULAFF international workshop (European action on Latin American functional foods), chaired by Prof Marc van Montagu - Ghent, Belgium
  

November 2008 

• 24-30 Nov 08 - RIMS participates in Economic Mission to Singapore led by HRH Prince Philippe of Belgium. Individual meeting at A*STAR centre at Biopolis (link), National University of Singapore, - Nanyang Technological University.
• 20-21 Nov 08 - FH presents at "Young Researchers European Mobility Conference" under French EU presidency in Rennes, France

October 2008 

• 21-22 Oct 08 - Match2BioSME partnering event at University of Roskilde, Denmark
• 8-18 Oct 08 - visit FH to Mexico.
• Mexico City:
1) strategic advice to several scientific groups 
2) visit Belgian embassy
3) FH presents as expert on Health at Adv Group meeting in preparation of Joint S&T Steering Committee meeting on EU-MEX cooperation (May 09)
• Monterrey:
  1) strategic advice to several scientific groups 
  2) Agreement signed at INNBIOGEM on Mexican consultancy partner   
  3) FH presents as expert on Food, Agriculture & Biotech at Adv Group Meeting in preparation of Joint S&T Steering Committee meeting on EU-MEX cooperation (May 09)
  4) attend BIOMONTERREY Conference (link)
• 1 Oct 08 - kickoff meeting new project with Mexico, UEMexCyt2 - CERCAL in Brussels. 3 year project of European Commission (FP7 INCO BILAT)
Partners: CONACYT (coordinator), ZSI, DLR, CERCAL, UAB, APRE, IRD & RIMS
Aim: capacity building in Mexico in the field of international S&T cooperation with Europe:
1) Support structure in Mexico to help Mexico-Europe cooperation
2) Workshops on FP7 etc
3) Policy Recommendations
September 2008 
24 Sep 08 - Sounding Board meeting European Commission
17-18 Sep 08 - FH act as coach on BIOSPAIN Investment Forum at BIOTEC 2008 in Granada, Spain (link) 
1-5 Sep 08 - visit FH to South Africa (Univ of Cape Town & Stellenbosch):
1) strategic advice to several scientific groups
2) workshops on collaboration with Europe. 
January - August 2008 
19-27 Aug 08 - visit FH to Mexico:
1) meeting with government (CONACYT) and several scientific groups in Mexico City & Monterrey. 
2) Visit Belgian Honorary Consul in Monterrey. 
3) Visit new science park in Monterrey (Monterrey International City of Knowledge Science Park (PIIT) (link)  
July 08 - Barcelona, Spain: Workshop on Mobility presented at the ESOF Conference
June 08 - Brussels: Partnerning Event Match2BioSME
June 08- Coimbra, Portugal: Partnering Event Match2BioSME
June 08 - Mexico & Peru
May 08 - Toulon, France: ISHEID Conference and Elan2Life meeting. One2one meetings with TB and HIV experts across the world.
April 08 - Mexico: workshops & meeting
Mar 08- Shanghai, China: Frank delivered two presentations at the EFBIC RED conference on international cooperation in infectious diseases.
Feb 08 - Sofia Antipolis, France: RIMS co-organised a workshop on financing of international R&D.  This workshop was organised in the framework of Match2Biosme in which RIMS is a partner. 
Jan 08 - Turin, Italy: Frank attended the PROTON Conference. This is a key event for exchange of best practices in knowledge transfer in Europe with more than 200 participants. See conference statement.