Date: July 2020
The first cycle of Real Skills for Scientists online seminars for young scientists was successfully completed, in collaboration with the National Documentation Centre (EKT)! These webinars aim to help scientists develop the skills needed for professional advancement. The first cycle, completed on 16 July 2020, focused on the field of Life Sciences.
R.E.A.L. Science has an excellent partnership with the initiative “Bridges of Knowledge and Cooperation”, implemented by the National Documentation Centre, which builds bridges between Greeks working in universities, research centers, and companies in Greece and Greeks who live and excel abroad.
The Real Skills for Scientists seminar series is structured around three themes:
- CV strengthening & transferable skills
- Funding
- Networking
We chose to begin with Life Sciences (Biology, Biotechnology, Genetics, Neuroscience, etc.) because a large number of our volunteers belong to this field. We collaborated with outstanding colleagues from institutions in Greece and abroad, including Yale University, the University of California San Diego, the University of California San Francisco, the Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming,” the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB‑FORTH), the Medical School of the University of Patras, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Bayer, the biotechnology company Achilles Therapeutics in the UK, and many more.
The seminars were hosted via Microsoft Teams and attracted more than 600 participants from Greece and 23 other countries. You can watch the videos from the three thematic sessions of the “Real Skills for Scientists – Life Sciences” cycle here (2/7, 9/7, 16/7).
All seminars and the material provided by the speakers were offered free of charge to everyone who registered. The next cycles, along with the scientific fields they will focus on, will be implemented in the autumn and announced soon.
We extend our heartfelt thanks to our volunteer Nancy Megremi for preparing and sharing this post.
