Why attend?
Competent professionals, who are committed to staying at the leading edge of developments in their field and developing their personal skills, are the underlying foundation of successful research. However, established mechanisms for maintaining professional competence and traditional career paths are being challenged. Changes in the employment landscape in industry and academia, the cross-disciplinary nature of modern science, the need for greater collaboration across traditional sectoral boundaries and the increased need for training to be responsive to real-life working, are all impacting on how the biomedical sector maintains a fit-for-purpose workforce. So how can your organisation and indeed YOU be ‘fit for the future’ in this environment?
Join us for the second EMBL Webinar Series on Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences. All webinars will take place 13:00-14:00 CET and are free of charge. All webinars are recorded and the recordings will be accessible from this page.
We will continue to add more speaker information, dates and registration links as they are confirmed. To receive this information directly, please subscribe to our mailing list: https://listserver.ebi.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/lifelonglearning
Date |
Webinar |
Speaker |
| 22 Jan | Why it is not a 'failure' to leave academia – and how to prepare for the transition | Philipp Kruger (University of Oxford, UK) |
| 20 Feb |
Disruptive technologies and future skills in the life sciences |
Karen Taylor (Deloitte) |
| 5 Mar | Entrepreneurial skills – nature or nurture? | Tarquin Bennett-Coles (AstraZeneca) and Maria Ferguson (Cambridge Epigenetix) |
| 19 Mar | The role of professional associations in the digital age | Nejc Klopcic (EPSA) and Lynda Wight (TOPRA) |
| TBC | The changing world of work | Andrea Hornich (Neunerhaus) |
| TBC | Transforming learning in the Pharma Industry (provisional title) | Simon Brown and Chara Balasubramaniam (Novartis) |
Who should attend?
- Employers, consultants, individual scientists/professionals and students of all sectors involved in biomedical research and development
- Biomedical education and training providers
- Professional and scientific bodies, learned societies
- Research infrastructures
- Regulators and regulatory affairs professionals
- Funders and policy makers
This webinar series follows on from the EMBL Conference: Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences in 2016 and was inspired by the LifeTrain initiative and a series of workshops. Webinar recordings from the first series can be accessed here.