1. WP 2: ScanBalt Campus Knowledge Centers WP leader: Carita Martin, Turku Bio Valley Ltd (Total budget 224.293 Euro)

2. The Main Business Areas in BioTurku Drug Discovery & Development Diagnostics Biomaterials Functional Foods

3. The Focus Areas in BioTurku Hormonal Diseases and Cancer Inflammatory and Infectious Diseases Diseases of the CNS Regenerative Medicine Drug Discovery & Development Diagnostics Biomaterials

4. WP 2 objectives: Identify existing knowledge centers in ScanBalt BioRegion with the potential to become transnational centers Catalyze the initiation of new transnational knowledge centers in a bottom up approach Promote ScanBalt Campus to other partners and existing knowledge centers Through knowledge centers improve the balance between demand and supply of education and increase the accessibility of thematic knowledge in ScanBalt BioRegion Serve as a mutual learning platform for knowledge centers

5. Some concept points for ScanBalt Knowledge Centers to be discussed Bottom up Transnational Selfgoverned Can be virtual, physical or a combination Can utilize ScanBalt as an umbrella or platform for activities after own choice

6. ScanBalt Campus Knowledge Centers – WP Methodology Examples of potential new knowledge centers in advance identified through the ScanBalt network Promote ScanBalt Campus as a tool for transnational knowledge centers through the ScanBalt network Dialogue and meetings with new potential knowledge centers Promote coordination between knowledge centers – meetings between coordinators

7. WP Methodology….two key points to stress To be a catalyst for the initiation of new transnational knowledge centers and the affiliation of existing activities into ScanBalt Campus To not interfere directly with the activities of the individual centers

8. Identified potential Campus knowledge centers (presentations in the afternoon) ScanBalt Faculty of regenerative medicine (Gustav Steinhoff, Rostock Medical University) Gdansk initiative on Faculty of Molecular Diagnostics (Ewa Lojkowska/Jacek Bigda, Gdansk University/Medical University) ScanBalt Faculty of intellectual property and entrepreneurship (Bo Heiden, Chalmers) ScanBalt Faculty of Environmental Biotechnology (Oliver Lindquist, Center of Environmental Biotechnology) Hopefully more to come!

9. WP 2- Main Milestones and deliverables Month 1-6: Detailed workplan for the WP with actions, timetable and responsible (discussion in the afternoon) Concrete draft action plans for 2 knowledge centers Month 7-12: Concrete draft action plans for 2 more knowledge centers Posters, flyers etc. prepared for ScanBalt Forum 2005 Information from the knowledge centers posted on the ScanBalt Campus web (to be established in WP 3) Month 13-18: Two knowledge centers have initiated activities Two knowledge centers have prepared action plans for their upstart Posters, flyers etc. prepared for ScanBalt Forum 2006 Information from the knowledge centers posted on the ScanBalt Campus web