2020-2021 Board Interview. Oriol Bárcenas, YEBN Communication Officer.

In these interviews we can meet more deeply the members of the recently established YEBN Board for the period 2020-2021. The next member to be introduced is Oriol Bárcenas, YEBN’s Communication Officer. This is what Oriol wants to tell us about himself. Hi! I’m Oriol Bárcenas, a 2nd year Biotechnology student! As a degree student … Read more

2020-2021 Board Interview. Alexandre Bretel, YEBN Networking Officer.

In these interviews we can meet more deeply the members of the recently established YEBN Board for the period 2020-2021. The next member to be introduced is Alexandre Bretel, YEBN’s Networking Officer. This is what Alexandre wants to tell us about himself. I have been Networking Officer at YEBN since our General Assembly which took … Read more

Highlights of the Career Development Programme “Bio-Building yourself”!

Last Thursday was the last seminar of the Career Development Programme “Bio-Building yourself” organized by YEBN. The idea of this programme arised from the need of giving our members and scientific audience in general the opportunity to keep growing professionaly and learning how to develop their personal industrial pathway during this hard time of confinement … Read more

2020-2021 Board Interview. Alexandra Nothnagel, YEBN Vice-president.

In these interviews we can meet more deeply the members of the recently established YEBN Board for the period 2020-2021. The next member to be introduced is Alexandra Nothnagel, YEBN’s Vice-President. This is what Alexandra wants to tell us about herself. As a German biochemist, I knew and profited all my studies from the offers … Read more

Benefits of participating and supporting hackathons on social challenges – experiences from YEBN during the #EUvsVirus

Alexandra Nothnagel,Vice-President of the YEBN A pan-European hackathon was hosted by the European Commission and led by the European Innovation Council in close collaboration with the EU member states. A hackathon (a portmanteau of hacking marathon with  “hack” in the sense of exploratory programming, not as a reference to computer crime.) is a design and … Read more

Welcoming Note from the President and Vice-President of the YEBN (2020/2021)

Dear community, Here it comes, the 2nd Newsletter of 2020 and… Yes! We are glad to announce to you that our new European Executive Board (EB) 2020/2021 has again the maximum size of 7 team members, integrating three new talents and covering 6 nations – France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and UK. Once you finish … Read more

COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa. The case of Nigeria.

Most of us are aware about the evolution of COVID-19 pandemic in European countries. However, there is less information about the situation in Sub-Saharan African, where the low availability of resources and the weakened health systems make even more difficult to face the pandemic. We have spoken with Suleiman Oshioke Yakubu, a Public Health Specialist … Read more