Network Wide Training

1 Feb 2019
During the OPATHY winter school selected ESRs were interviewed by Westerdijk Communication officer Karin Schagen and asked about the potential applications of their results in the business sector.
17 Jan 2019
The third OPATHY winter school took place from 16th till 18th of January at QVQ and Westerdijk premises in Utrecht, Netherlands. Beside presentations comprising amongst others the topics Working at a company after your studies From science to value: identification and evaluation of new results, projects and ideas How can a company be taken over (IPA deal)? How can a company taken over a small company? Budapest treaty and Nagoya protocol. ESRs also received practical training in identifying valorisation potentials of their research projects.
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26 Aug 1 Sep 2018
The 3rd summer school took place at Biotechvana, Valencia, Spain from 26th of August to 1st of September 2018. The summer school will covered the following topics: Applied bioinformatics, ethical, legal and social aspects of clinical research.
27 Aug 1 Sep 2017
OPATHY provides ESRs with state-of-the-art network-wide training activities. The 2nd Summer school will take place at Hans-Knoell-Institute (HKI) in Jena, Germany, from 27th of August to 1st of September 2017. The summer school will cover the following topics; Functional genomics and cellular analysis of infection models, Clinical Mycology, and Valorisation and entrepreneurial skills.
1 Mar 4 Mar 2017
The first OPATHY Winter School with a focus on the Improvement of science communication skills took place from 1st till 4th of March 2017 at CRG in Barcelona, Spain. Beside the 13 OPATHY ESRs also 14 ESRs from five other ETNs being coordinated in Barcelona participated in the course.
28 Aug 2 Sep 2016
The first OPATHY summer school took place from 28th of August till 2nd of September 2016 and had a focus on clinically important yeasts. Beside an introductory course with lectures it also included practical courses about in vivo and in vitro infection models. Furthmore the ESRs got a training about gender aspects in resaearch and projewct management.