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1st European MBES Forum
Role of MBES in Europe
December 5th, 2002
In conjunction with the 2nd EMBEC, Vienna, Austria
www.embec.org
Forum background & objectives
Prof. Niilo Saranummi is currently chairing a working group that the European biomedical engineering societies
(30+) have assigned to build a European Alliance in Medical and Biological Engineering and Science, EAMBES.
A web site for it was launched in the early summer
(www.eambes.org). The main objective of the group in
creating this new alliance, is to bring the community (societies, industry and academic programs) together
as a united single entity, capable of representing the biomedical engineering interests towards the EU
Parliament and Commission e.g. in the process leading to the definition of the 7th FP. For the 6th we
were too late and our interests are now "all over" the 6th FP. The group received a small project grant
from the Commission to do a survey of biomedical engineering related resources in Europe. That project
starts in November. Our definition of "Medical and Biological Engineering and Science" is the widest possible.
In the 2nd European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, Vienna, December 4-8, 2002
(www.embec.org) we will organise the 1st European Medical and
Biological Engineering and Science Forum. This takes place on Thursday, December 5th, 2002. The objective of
the forum is to present and discuss the current European wide initiatives, namely the creation of the European
Research Area, the 6th Framework Program and its new instruments, especially Networks of Excellence, and the
creation of the European Higher Education Area in relation to the field represented by EAMBES.
Niilo Saranummi
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