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The guide is published annually by Hyphen Projects. Company Profiles .........................................................................................................................................................58 Additional copies can be downloaded free of charge from the website www.bcfjobs.com & www.bcfcareerevent.be Partners of BCF Career Event Belgium 2017 ...............................................................................................86 2 Colophon Contents 3 Preface ‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.‘ William Butler Yeats Career choice, and even before that, study play a role in career planning. With our education and labour market policy, choice are without doubt two of the most And this is certainly needed! Today Flanders is we want to combat this tightness in the important decisions a person has to make at the world’s top when it comes to biotech labour market. We are working on improving in their life. Moreover, in a rapidly evolving and Life Sciences. Our innovative clusters of the influx into STEM (Science, Technology, society and labour market these are choices top universities, academic hospitals, research Engineering, and Mathematics) courses. We that we have to make more than once. centres and bio-incubators form an attractive hope to spark an interest for sciences and Sound knowledge of your own talents and ‘ecosystem’ for many domestic and foreign technology from an early age by providing opportunities are therefore indispensable. companies. In addition, Flanders also has specific lessons in primary and technical This is why we from the Government, invest the largest R&D hub for plant biotech and academies throughout Flanders. In this so much in supporting young people of all emerging industrial biotechnology and way we are attempting to stimulate young education levels with making optimal study with Ghent Bio-Economy Valley being the people to choose a STEM study or job later choices. Whether it is the modernisation of largest integrated bio-energy complex in on in life. We also stimulate this passion by secondary education by focusing on a broad Europe. Belgium is also number 2 in Europe in focusing on the social relevance of STEM foundation with extensive specialising options, conducting clinical trials per capita. professions. Whether we are talking about the introduction of the Columbus test, the aging, treatment of prosperity diseases or orientation tool for all sixth form students; The Flemish Government therefore invests the transition to a low-carbon economy, or the compulsory admission tests for heavily in this sector by supporting Life Sciences and Biotechnology remain an scientific and technological studies. We have entrepreneurship and actively pursuing important part of the solution. a single purpose, to support young people export and foreign investment policies. Every in their search to find their own talents and year, we also invest 60 million in the Flemish The first results of STEM policy are already opportunities. institute of Biotechnology (VIB). Partly as a encouraging. More young people are result of this, the sector is constantly gaining choosing for education in science and Equally indispensable as this self-knowledge importance and currently accounts for about technology. It is therefore good that the sector is a thorough understanding of the 38,000 jobs. Therefore graduates in this sector is responding to this positive evolution with opportunities in the labour market. This is have many opportunities in the labour market. attractive initiatives like the BCF Career Event, why the organisation of a career fair such For example, only 3% of the professionals and this handsome Career Guide. as BCF Career Event and the publication with a bachelor’s in ‘biomedical laboratory Enjoy reading. of a guide like the BCF Career Guide are so technology’ are still