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Assessment of the European DevCBEV project: towards enhanced international cooperation for the for drug development

Publié le 2 septembre 2024 – Mis à jour le 2 septembre 2024

In 2023-2024, the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) participated in the Erasmus+ cooperation project (Action 2), “Development Steps for New Chemical and Biological Entities and Vaccines (DevCBE", led by Dulce Papy (Director of Laboratory Gly-CRRET), with the aim of using new approaches to develop future drugs.

Projet DevCBEV 2023-2024
The University of Applied Sciences IMC Krems (Austria) coordinates the project, the University of Applied Sciences Turku (Finland) and FST (UPEC) have joined forces to develop innovative joint cooperation practices, including the creation of an interdisciplinary and transnational course module, enabling students to theoretical and practical aspects of drug discovery and development.
 
Based on close collaboration between the consortium, the European DevCBEV, has enabled numerous activities to be carried out, involving students, teachers and researchers. Partners and students take stock.
 

Assessment of the DevCBEV project

Faced with the need to develop new chemical and biological entities and biological entities, the consortium partners decided to pool their specific knowledge through the DevCBEV project.

With industrial and societal issues at the heart of the project, a course and training plan was drawn up, covering the entire drug development process.
This project not only combined the strengths of the FST's research teams in biology, chemistry, biology, chemistry, biomedicine, OMIC technologies (RNA and DNA) and AI, but also the the solid expertise of the consortium partners, in molecular modeling, proteomics, cell-based assays proposed by the University Krems University of Applied Sciences, and in the design of sustained-release formulations for biologics and drugs, offered by the Turku University of Applied Sciences.

DevCBEV project in figures

 The European project has enabled:
  • the creation of 1 course module, introduced as an optional module in the curricula of all the institutions in the consortium and valued by 9 ECTS for theory and 9 ECTS for practical work;
  • the running of 14 course sessions, provided by each partner, and the development of course materials;
  • each partner hosted a cohort of 9 students (3 students per partner), who carried out practical experiments (practical work, clinical trials) after 2 weeks' virtual preparation before the practical work. These mobilities gave rise to led to the creation of working groups, scientific reports or posters;
  • virtual conferences, but also enabled students to experiment with new experiment of teaching methods and cultural approaches;
  • 3 transnational missions to Krems, Créteil and Turku.


The DevCBEV project in their own words !

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