The purpose of the workshop is to discuss the existing training opportunities in the field of flexible biopharmaceutical manufacturing with single-use systems and technologies. In addition, we would like to investigate requirements from both supplier and user perspectives. The five main questions that we hope to answer are:

• Are the current student training courses offered by academic institutions in Europe and the USA sufficient for suppliers and users?
• What are the main topics that Bachelor students should understand? • What are the main topics that Master students should understand?
• Is it necessary to educate “new biotechnologists“ to be more familiar with fabrication methods for plastic devices, the implementation of single-use systems, how to work with them and how to apply them?
• What are the topics need to be included in further training courses for industry specialists?

The goal is that the discussions from this meeting will be developed into a DECHEMA recommendation or position paper to be published in Engineering of Life Sciences.

The participants (except members of DECHEMA group "single-use technology" and invited speakers) are asked to send a registration mail to Katharina Blaschczok.

Wednesday, 7 September

Online registration for the conference will be open until 29^th August 2016.