The Cooperation Agrement between WSKiOZ and Oncology Center in Białystok

We are glad to inform that on 4^th January 2010 the Cooperation Agreement between WSKiOZ and Maria Curie-Skłodowska Oncology Center in Białystok is being implemented. The agreement focuses on the following areas:

-    joint studies, surveys, accomplishment of teaching projects;

-    organization of seminars on science and scientific conferences;

-    aids necessary to educate personnel, enhance qualifications of teaching personnel;

The Agreement shall be in force for three consecutive years and it is a result of preceding cooperation which has enabled joint publications as well as gave origin to The Breast Cancer Prevention Program being executed together with The Amazon Club in Białystok.

For more information, go to bookmark on Prevention Programs.

Transborder student cooperation.

It has been two years since we started cooperation between Universities which educate specialists in the field of physiotherapy.

On 4^th December 2009 our Institute hosted a group of students and lecturers from Janka Kupała University in Grodno. It was the second visit of those involved in physiotherapy. The meeting with authorities and lecturers of WSKiOZ in Białystok started at 8 o’clock in the morning and was followed by speech during which history of the Institute as well as the origin of cooperation between Universities were presented. To make the atmosphere more pleasant souvenirs and gifts were exchanged among participants. Krzysztof Cis, M.Sc., clarified the idea of Special Olympics – the association acting for people who suffer from mental retardation. A Special Olympics Programme is well known in Belorus and it is going to be  a component of V European Summer Special Olympics in Warsaw in September 2010.

As soon as the meeting came to an end our guest were showed around premises of the Institute and Medrex Medical Centre. The next stage of the visit was participation in the ‘teaching programme’ initiated by ‘A biomechanic gait analyses,   a lecture given by Robert Santorka, PH.D. Afterwards, our guests had an opportunity to see Clinical Neurophysiology workshops conducted by Dorota Skonecka - Łukaszuk, M.Sc., and a Therapeutic Massage conducted by Zbigniew Rudziński, M.Sc. The subject of Clinical Neurophysiology lecture was linked to selected issues of electrodiagnosis, simultaneously students from Grodno were able to take an active part in it by performing some tests on themselves. The subject of Therapeutic Massage lecture concerned different techniques of a Relaxation Massage, particulary a massage with canes and hot stones.

The second stage of the visit was Białystok sightseeing. Summary of the meeting was followed by the opinion swap in the field of activities and methodology of teaching applied at both Universities. The cooperation between Universities, by virtue of the signed contract, will be even more tighten in the nearest future and might result in the students exchange programme aiming at foreign students’ practices in our Institute.

Our countries lie in the neighbourhood and our culture is a result of common historical events. The students exchange programme might be fruitful not only of great cooperation of two educational centres but also of social contacts.

A visit of TITVAM Representatives in WSKiOZ.

On 16^th of December 2009 The Institute of Cosmetology and Health Care in Białystok hosted dr G Jurgelaitiene - Direktoriaus pavaduotoja studijoms, A. Piasecka – Projektu vadove and A. Dauderys – Direktoriaus pavaduotojas infrastrukturai – the representatives of International School of Law and Business in Vilnus. It was the first visit of our foreign guests in The Institute of Cosmetology and Health Care in Białystok. The Lithuanian School is interested in entering into cooperation, mainly in the field of methodolgy of teaching. International School of Law and Business in Vilnus is a large, private institution, employing 300 academic lecturers and educating 6000 students. It has been on the academic market for 10 years and it has implemented a system of quality management in compliant with international norm ISO 9001:2000.

WSKiOZ offers its students, in the frames of existing faculties, lectures from management and marketing. TITVAM is a modern and fully accredited non-state school which enables students to choose one out of 7 provided specializations in the field of law, management, IT and humanities and obtain a Bachelor’s Degree as a result of their education. Expertise of the Lithuenian lecturers, in that range, may be helpful for WSKiOZ.

As Lithuania does not have a school of higher education offering the faculty of Cosmetology, but only a faculty of Public Health with cosmetology being specialization, the Institute of Cosmetology and Health Care in Białystok is willing to cooperate with the Lithuanian scientific institution and promote a profession of cosmetologist in Lithuania.

Substantial patronage.

The Institute of Cosmetology and Health Care in Białystok agreed to offer substantial patronage in ‘Beauty Innovations 2010’ - I Congress of Producers of Innovative Cosmetics, which is taking place in Warsaw on 27-28 January 2010.

The objective of the meeting is to answer some questions with regard to the following issues:

-          The outlook of cosmetic sector in consecutive years

-          New trends in cosmetic development

-          A modern cosmetic company – what is it going to look like?

-          Biotechnology in cosmetology

The Congress is deicated to:

-          Producers of innovative cosmetics

-          Distributores of primary commodities

-          Distributors of machinery

-          Companies cooperating with cosmetic branches

This Congress will enable various companies to meet in one place and at one time, exchange business referrals and leads, make new business contacts, hold B2B meetings as well as promote new products and primary commodities. We would like to invite all representatives from companies which are open to the newest worldwide trends, where efficacy and safety are combined with the highest possible quality of products. The aim of the Congress is to gather specialists from the field of cosmetology, biotechnology, biochemistry, dermatology, immunology and chemical engeenering so that they can exchange their experiences and ideas and as a result initiate fruitful cooperation. During this Congress, apart from stands promoting companies, we are going to hold discussion panels, seminars of defined subjects.

We would like to discuss the following subjects:

-          Ecological trends in cosmetology

-          Challenges to be met – New EU Law on Cosmetics

-          Cosmetics for skin with problems

-          Safety of cosmetic products

-          Technology of the future – nanoparticle in cosmetic products

-          Cosmetics in media – trends analysis

-          Renewable resources

-          Biotechnology in cosmetology

-          A dietary supplements – a part of healthy skin apperance

For more details go to:  http://www.beautyinnovations.pl/

The Institute of Cosmetology and Health Care signs a cooperation agreement with Lund University.

On 1^st December 2009 in Białystyok, during III International Forum on Innovative Technologies for Medicines ITMED 2009, The Institute of Cosmetology and Health Care in Białystok signed an agreement on science and didactic cooperation with Lund University (The Department of Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University). It was a significant event for The Institute because Lund University is recognised as one of the most prestigious European universities (according to QS TORUNIVERSITIES/2009 rating – 33^rd position in Europe and 67^th in the world). In compliance with the signed agreement, the cooperation between Universities involves the following tasks:

-          Exchange of publications and research materials

-          Student exchange programme

-          Lecturers exchange programme

-          Lectures and joint scientific research

-          Participation in seminars, workshops as well as conferences organies by Parties

-          Joint scientific projects as well as preparation of documents on the right to intelectual property

We believe that cooperation between WSKiOZ and Lund University will influence a development of our region.

Innovative Techologies for Medicine

III International Forum on Innovative Technologies for Medicine ITMED 2009 took place on 1st- 3rd December 2009 in Białystok. Here we present the organizers of the event: Międzynarodowe Wschodnie Centrum Innowacji (MWCI) - Stowarzyszenie Innowacyjna Polska Wschodnia, Lwowskie Centrum Informacji Naukowej, Technicznej i Ekonomicznej (LvCSTEI), Republikańskie Centrum Transferu Technologii w Mińsku (RCTT), Polska Agencja Rozwoju Przedsiębiorczości, Krajowy Punkt Kontaktowy Programów Badawczych UE (KPK), Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju – Inicjatywa EUREKA, Politechnika Warszawska, Politechnika Białostocka, Uniwersytet Medyczny w Białymstoku, The Institute of Cosmetology and Health Care in Białystok, Krajowa Izba Gospodarcza Elektroniki i Telekomunikacji (KIGEiT) and Polski Wschodni Klaster Medyczny. The main targets of this Forum were to establish contacts between clusters (we would like to remind that WSKiOZ is a member-founder of Polish-Eastern Medical Cluster) and technological parks of medical branch within Poland and other European countries, mainly from Central and Eastern Europe as well as to select areas of their prospective cooperation.

Forum gave a great opportunity to undertake new ventures and projects mainly within a framework of VII Frame Programme and EUREKA Initiative. Issues on possibilities, perspectives of development and cooperation in the area of biochemical engineering were brought up and sessions devoted to realities of clusters and parks activities were all accurately analysed.

ITMED 2009 Honourable patronage: Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, President for Białystok City and Marshal for Podlaskie Vovoidship.

Scientific and research activity of Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory at Faculty of Physiotherapy in 2009.

IX Congress of International Polish Association for Neurobiology took place on 09-12.09.2009 in Warsaw. Professor senior doctor lecturer Ryszard Kinalski, the Head of Faculty of Physiotherapy for WSKiOZ took an active part in it and presented a poster on interactive activity of experimental neurophysiologists with neurorehabilitation specialists.

I International Polish Rehabilitation Congress took place on 10-13.09.2009 in Warsaw. It was organized by Polish Association for Physiotherapy and Polish Association for Physiotherapy. Professor senior doctor lecturer Ryszard Kinalski, the Head of Faculty of Physiotherapy for WSKiOZ, took an active part in it and presented a lecture on: ‘The needs and possibilities of tutoring of Clinical Neurophysiology in the frameworks of pre-degree education for students of Physiotherapy’.

During the Congress there were two performances prepared by the panel under the management of Professor Ryszard Kinalski. The panel included: Skonecka-Łukaszuk D., Cis K., Busłowicz M., Siembida B., Kur M.,’Clinical Neurophysiology in the assesment of students of physiotherapy’ and Skonecka-Łukaszuk D., Cis K., Kur M., ‘The usefulness of the classical electrodiagnostics in the assessment of skeletal muscle in a healthy adult.

Invitation for a lecture by Professor Stefan Grzegorz Pierzynowski.

Invitation for a lecture by Professor Stefan Grzegorz Pierzynowski from Department Cell and Organism Biology LUND University Sweden.

A lecture is taking place on 03.12.2009 at 09:30 in a lecture hall no 214.

Transfer of knowledge from Universities to industry. The visits in Finland, Latvia and Sweden.

Both September and October were months of visits. The project coordinator – Innovative Eastern Poland Association in the framework of the following projects:

- ‘The cooperation of B+R zone personnel with experts regarding joint elaboration of practical CTT model being the best school of innovation, way of management of developmental research as well as commercialization of their results’.

- Raising awarness among B+R zone personnel on the influence of science on economic development applying the best cooperation practice of the participants of II FORUM on Science and Technology Days, Poland-East 2009

Finland

A visit and training course in Finland – Technopolis Helsinki.

Objective: foreign ‘best practices’ to gain in the field of CTT, actively cooperating with Finnish parks of science and technology (one of the best worldwide) especially in the area of organization of the transfer of technology in Finland.

Representatives of Polish Universities attended meetings with a Rector of Politechnic in Helsinki and a proposal of a joint scientific researches were put forward.

Lithuania

A visit and a training course in Lithuania

Objective: to get to know the technology transfer system operating in Lithuania an well as Lithuanian CTT organization in Kaunus (CTT for schooling) and Vilnuus (Lithuanian Innovation Centre), participation in workshops which presented good practices as well as possibilities of technology commertialization. The meeting with a Rector of Vilnus Technical University was held.

Meetings and discussions allowed to define details for further cooperation

Sweden

A visit and VINNOVA Agency training course (The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation), Clinical Research Centre, University Hospital MAS oraz Parku Technologicznego Medeon i Ideon Science Park Lund.

Objective: raising awareness and interest of B+R zone personnel with the possibilities of effective cooperation in the areas of implementation of scientific achievements in economy.

Possibilities of joint cooperation in the area of science and business were defined and value of experiments by Polish and Eastern European Countries were emphasized.

Podlaskie Partnership for e-development.

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