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SUMMARY:Towards a Sustainable Bio-based Society: Aligning Scientific and Societal Agendas for Bio-innovation 
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LOCATION:Amsterdam\, Netherlands
DESCRIPTION:<p>From 9-11 May\n2012\, the conference <strong>Towards a sustainable bio-based society: aligning\nscientific and societal agendas for bio-innovation </strong>will take place in Amsterdam. In\ncollaboration with the European Science Foundation (ESF)\, this \nconference is organised by The Centre for Society &amp\; the Life \nSciences (CSG) the ESRC Genomics\nNetwork (EGN\, United Kingdom) and GEN-AU (Austria). Bringing together participants from academia (senior\nexperts as well as early stage researchers)\, industry and policy\, this\ninternational\, interdisciplinary conference will:</p>\n<ul>\n<li> identify\n     key trends in the co-evolution of contemporary biosocieties on the one\n     hand and life science research on the other</li>\n<li>explore\n     the opportunities\, challenges and concerns for society at large arising\n     from these trends</li>\n<li>develop\n     a roadmap towards a sustainable bio-based economy through the alignment of\n     scientific and societal agendas.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>This three-day\nmeeting will include plenary presentations by keynote speakers\, interviews\,\nforum discussions\, as well as poster presentation sessions.</p>\n<p>We hereby\ninvite early stage researchers (e.g. Ph.D. researchers and post-docs) to submit\nproposals for poster presentations on issues relevant for life sciences\,\npolicy\, industry\, funding agencies and media. These might include (but are not\nconfined to) reflections on the societal aspects of the following issues:</p>\n<ul>\n<li> Sustainable bio-innovation</li>\n<li>Societal impact of synthetic biology\nand bionanoscience</li>\n<li>Private/public partnerships and IPR</li>\n<li>Biomimesis\, biomaterials and\nbiofuels</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>The\nsubmission deadline is 1 January 2012. </strong></p>\n<p>If you want to be informed about this\, please\ncontact Olga Crapels at <a target="_blank">crapels@society-lifesciences.nl</a></p>
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