EMBL-EBI SME Support Forum

"SMEs account for close to two-thirds of Europe's employment and GDP", Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for Science and Research.
Press release, 23 May 2006

SMEs have access to EMBL-EBI training, services and support. In addition, EMBL-EBI has established an annual series of information workshops designed to allow SMEs to effectively use the freely available data resources, tools and services provided by EMBL-EBI and its collaborators (including the European Patent Office).

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Forthcoming Forum Meetings

The 6th Annual Forum for SMEs will take place in Barcelona, Spain 8-9 October 2012
Full details will be available shortly.

Previous Forum Meetings

The 5th Annual Forum for SMEs took place at Bioindustry Park Silvano Fumero, Piemonte, 6-7 October 2011.
Full details for the 5th Annual Forum for SMEs Information Workshop can be found HERE. A short summary of the meeting can be found HERE.

The 4th Annual Forum for SMEs Information Workshop on European Bioinformatics Resources took place in Munich, 18th-19th October 2010.

The workshop provided the opportunity to introduce the tools and data resources that are available and the opportunities for SMEs to use and integrate these resources in order to derive business benefit from the existing and developing infrastructure.
The topics of the workshop were specifically selected on the basis of previous interactions with SMEs and included chemogenomics, cheminformatics, proteomics, text mining, literature services and analysis, web services, which is fast developing as the accepted technology in scientific computing, and patent services providing by EMBL-EBI and the European Patent Office.
In addition to the presentations, discussion and networking opportunities, there was also the opportunity for some hands-on tutorials at the offices of the EPO. The workshop was highly subsidised through the generous contributions of the hosting organisations (BioM and the EPO) and financial contributions from a number of EU projects (ENFIN, SLING, CALBC and ELIXIR) that are coordinated by EMBL-EBI and are targeted to provide bioinformatics tools and data resources for European research.

Further details and presentations from the 4th Annual Forum for SMEs Information Workshop can be found HERE.

The 3rd Annual Information Workshop on European Bioinformatics Resources for SMEs was held in Vienna on 3–4 September 2009 with kind support from Austria Wirtschaftsservice (AWS) and presentations from EMBL-EBI, the European Patent Office, AWS and SMEs based in Austria.

The workshop agenda built upon earlier experience and included small molecule resources (ChEMBL and ChEBI), proteomics services, literature services, web services and the patent searching services providing both by EMBL-EBI and the European Patent Office.

Full details of the meeting and the presentations can be accessed from http://dev.enfin.org/page.php?page=sme_meeting_2009.

Presentations from the meeting can be accessed from http://dev.enfin.org/page.php?page=sme_meeting_2009. Due to the popularity of this event, we are working with members of the Council of European BioRegions to identify appropriate host organisations for similar events in the future (see http://www.cebr.net/NewsStory.aspx?id=26).

The 2nd Annual Forum for SMEs was held in Berlin from 27th–28th October 2008 and included speakers from EMBL-EBI and collaborators. Full details of the meeting and the presentations can be accessed from http://dev.enfin.org/page.php?page=sme_meeting_2008.