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Cedia / ICA Conference 2009
Leuven, Belgium
June 11th - 13th 2009

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Dear Colleague
I would like to announce the CEDIA - ICA Conference 2009 - Models for successful collaboration and partnerships between universities, businesses and NGOs - in education, research and consultancy.

The Conference will take place between Thursday 11 June and Saturday 13 June in Leuven, Belgium. We are promoting the conference with our partner ICA (Association for European Life Science Universities)

Please download the flyer for further information. The conference will address operational models for exploiting complementarity and synergy under the following themes:

1) Education: models for the successful involvement of stakeholders in the education process
2) Research, development and knowledge transfer - benefits, complementarity and challenges
3) Financial support of universities by businesses: towards an American model
4) Internal organisation of universities to manage the link with businesses
5) Relation with companies: cultural behaviour

Key explanatory phrases for each of these themes are given in the attached Conference flyer. You are invited to submit an abstract for a contributed paper which addresses one or more of these themes. We invite papers which report on successful strategies for collaboration and partnership between universities and businesses - large businesses or SMEs. Please also suggest who we might also contact from business/industry to give a keynote presentation around these issues.

Please submit a 400 word abstract for a contributed paper by email to european.agronomists@orange.fr copy to Simon Heath (clues@abdn.ac.uk) by 28th February. Please make sure that you give an email address and telephone number.

Please put the date of the Conference in your diary now!

Register your interest in receiving further details of the Conference by sending an email to european.agronomists@orange.fr or to Simon Heath at clues@abdn.ac.uk. The Cedia General Assembly 2009 will be held during the Conference.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact us

Kind regards
Sean Gaule
President of Cedia
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Lyonnel Tirelli
Secretary General
Cedia
european.agronomists@orange.fr

and

Dr Simon B Heath
Secretary General
Association for European Life Science Universities (ICA)
(formerly the Interuniversity Consortium for Agricultural and Related Sciences in Europe)
c/o Dean's Office, Faculty of Life Sciences
University of Copenhagen
Bulowsvej 17, 1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
tel + 33 4 67 76 32 68 or mobile +44 7801 611525
fax + 45 35 33 26 64
email: clues@abdn.ac.uk
http://www.ica-europe.info