A SPECIAL Kick-Off!!!

This event will provide education, communication and networking opportunities for both the scientific and business leaders engaged in drug delivery and formulation. It will bring together leaders from academia, biotech and industry to discuss the current challenges and new strategies to succeed in this evolving area. The following sessions are in the agenda: Small Molecule Formulation: Solubility & Bioavailability; Development of Biologic Formulation; Advanced Technologies in Drug Delivery & Novel Approaches in Drug Delivery System; Nanotechnology - Clinical Results, Applications & Regulatory Challenges; Exploiting Human Physiology to Improve Drug Delivery. For additional info check the conference's website.

A SPECIAL Kick-Off!!!

Launching the project in Guimaraes, Portugal

Press release: SPECIAL in the Azores

On Acoriano Oriental

SPECIAL goes to Turkey

6M progress meeting - Bodrum 26th-27th May 2011

1st SPECIAL Open day - Marine Biotechnology

Genoa 28th October 2011

BIOMARINE Business Convention

Nantes Saint-Nazaire, 7-9 September 2011

9th World Biomaterials Congress

Chengdu 1-5 June 2012 Readmore...

Euroscience Open Forum

Dublin, 11-15 July 2012x

12th International Coral Reef Symposium

9-13 July 2012, Cairns, Queensland Readmore...

George Winter Award 2011 to Rui Reis

at the European Conference on Biomaterials 2011 Readmore...

EC blueprint for IPR

Brussels, 24 May 2011 Readmore...

Deep seas at Spektrale

Mainz city of science 2011

Genoa SciFes programme

The 2011 preliminary programme of the Genoa Science Festival is online

Friendship Award to Werner Müller

The People's Republic of China Friendship Award 2011

ESAO-IFAO Congress 2011

Porto, Portugal, 9-12 October 2011 Readmore...

Colloids and Nanomedicine 2012

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 15-17 July 2012

SPECIAL Open day in Israel

October 17th at the President's Residence

SPECIAL Open day in Genoa

An audience of 200 for Blue Biotechnology Readmore...

SPECIAL on YouTube!

The SPECIAL YouTube channel is "on air"

New Perspectives in Sci-Edu

Florence, 8-9 March 2012

How to search for patent information

New factsheet by the IPR helpdesk of the EC

IPR Helpdesk Webinars

Online training tools supported by the EC

SPECIAL goes visual!

Check it out in the SPECIAL website

Deep-sea sponge taxonomy workshop

São Miguel Island (Azores), 16-21 April 2012

Lower invertebrate symbiosis with microorganisms

Eilat, February 26 - March 2, 2012

3rd European Lung Cancer Conference

Geneva (Switzerland) 18-21 April 2012

Science-2-Business at ESOF 2012

Dublin 11-15 July 2012

EACR-22

Barcelona 7-10 July 2012

World Cancer Congress

Montreal, August 27-30 2012

3rd TERMIS World Congress 2012

Vienna, 5-8 September 2012

BioMarine Business Convention 2012

London, 24-25 October 2012

YOUMARES 2012

12-14 September 2012, Lübeck

Summer School on Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine

9-13 July 2012, Riva del Garda - Trento

3rd Marine Board Forum

Brussels 18 April 2012

8th International Aquarium Congress

9-14 September 2012, Cape Town Readmore...

MarineTT Knowledge Gate launched

Access to information from FP6 and FP7

Analytical and Nanoanalytical Methods for Biomedical and Environmental Sciences

May 24-27 2012, Brasov

New Release of the FP7 Participant Portal

Info from the EC

Science in Dialogue - Towards a European Model for

Responsible Research and Innovation

23-25 April 2012, Odense

Blue Growth - sustainable growth from the oceans, seas and coasts

Public consultation 16 March - 11 May 2012

European Maritime Day 2012

6M progress meeting - Bodrum 26^th-27^th May 2011

1^st SPECIAL Open day - Marine Biotechnology

Genoa 28^th October 2011

9^th World Biomaterials Congress

12^th International Coral Reef Symposium

October 17^th at the President's Residence

3^rd European Lung Cancer Conference

3^rd TERMIS World Congress 2012

3^rd Marine Board Forum

8^th International Aquarium Congress

15^th European Congress on Biotechnology

4^th Rendez-vous de Concarneau 2012

13^th Tetrahedron Symposium