bioencapsulation

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Activities

Workshops

COST865 will organize annual international workshop allowing participants to present their work and meet other participants.

Expert meetings

Expert meetings allow subgroups to discuss and organize specific tasks, for exemple in the frame of the working groups (see organisation)

Short term Scientific meetings

STSMs allow researchers, especially students, to visit an other participant laboratory, learn a new technology, transfert a knowledge or run a set of experiments.

Working groups

Working groups organize colaborative work such as testing in parallelle a method or a material. This round robins are reported generally in the form of a publication. They could also compiled information in a database and made available to the community. Books and special journal issues could also a commun objectives

Objectives

The main objective of the COST865 is to improve the knowledge on bioencapsulation in developing reliable, economical and safe industrial encapsulation processes and applications. The Action also aims to deepen cooperation in Europe, by regular meetings, scientific contribution to international conferences and collaboration with industries, in order:

Direct scientific and technological objectives:

  1. To consider and integrate the multiscale and interactive dimension of the processes in designing bioencapsulation applications.
  2. To identify the gaps in the knowledge and to propose concerted actions, such as round robins, to develop especially fundamental research, by involving experts even from outside of the bioencapsulation community.
  3. To develop characterisation and analytical tools for evaluating performances and meeting high quality and safety requirements in industrial processes.
  4. To provide method standardisation to insure safety, quality and reliability during bioencapsulation and subsequent applications (e.g. GLP, GMP) and make the information easily and reliably available to everyone.

Societal Objectives:

  1. To disseminate the acquired knowledge among the EU scientific community involved in bioencapsulation, especially, giving access to bioencapsulation standard through easy Internet connection.
  2. To evaluate this knowledge to provide support to the academic and industrial communities in defining their objectives in terms of economy, social impact, technological limitations,feasibility, potential partners and so on.
  3. To support the establishment of new SMEÕs, based on the identification of potential markets.
  4. To contribute to the training through STSMÕs, participation of young scientists, summer school or even application for a Marie Curie Thematic Network.
  5. To promote the leadership of Europe in bioencapsulation while extending the collaboration outside of the actual COST area, by inviting outstanding researchers to participate to the meetings and activities, and applying for support from other organisations such as INTAS,NATO or UNESCO, to reach this objective.