Our actions

BioConvS organises not only grant calls, but also conferences, trainings, events. You can find here below all actions we have sponsored or organised.

Discover each even in detail:

BioConvS x Pint of Science 2025

BioConvS x Pint of Science 2025

The Atrium Humanités et Sciences Sociales, the DIM BioConvS and the Faculté des Sciences of Université Paris Cité join forces to organize events during the next edition of the Pint of Science 2025 on May 19th to 21st 2025! Do you like science and making it accessible?...

Inventor’s challenge

Inventor’s challenge

Register to the “Défi Inventeur et Inventrice 2025” Why To benefit from assistance in the patenting process and immersion in a culture of invention. This is an initiative designed to encourage innovation and promote a culture of invention among scientists from...

Call for Expression of Interest – POD

Call for Expression of Interest – POD

 What is this call for expressions of Interest? The Proof-of-concept demonstrator (POD) call for expressions of interest aims to identify projects in the field of biotherapies, requiring to de-risk innovation with the support of an industrial integrator at Paris...

Our 2024 postdoc call is open

Our 2024 postdoc call is open

Our 2024 postdoc call, which will fund 2 postdoctoral 2-year fellowships in the field of synthetic biology for health, is open until March 2nd, 2025. This call will fund fellowships for a project in collaboration between two academic research laboratories; an...

BioConvS at Medicen Day 2024

BioConvS will be present at Medicen Day on October 1st!  Medicen Day 2024, une journée pour fédérer l’excellence scientifique et industrielle francilienne Le pôle de compétitivité Medicen Paris Region organise une nouvelle édition de son évènement éponyme, le...

SynBioTherapy

SynBioTherapy

Join us to discuss the synergies between synthetic biology and biotherapies to shape the healthcare of the future!When: November 27th, 2024 Where: Auditorium of the Learning Planet Institute, 8bis rue Charles V 75004 ParisThis conference, co-organized by DIM BioConvS,...

Innovation Day 2024

Innovation Day 2024

The Innovation Day: Matchmaking was held at the Conseil Régional d'Ile-de-France on November 28th, 2024. More than 250 particpants attended a dense program of scientfic and innovation talks, the networking opportunities, the vibrant poster session and visited the 20+...

JNBB 2024: visit Genethon, I-Stem and ART-TG

JNBB 2024: visit Genethon, I-Stem and ART-TG

Cécile Martinat (I-Stem), Giuseppe Ronzitti (Genethon), and Anne Galy (ART-TG) invite you to visit their labs! One of the main missions of BioConvS is to catalyze collaborations between its laboratories. In this spirit, we have organized, in collaboration with...

BioConvS at VivaTech 2024

The largest European innovation event dedicated to start-ups and tech took place last week, from May 22 to 25, at Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles. VivaTech aims to be a generalist event, highlighting new technologies in various fields, including health, spread...

Attend the Advanced Cell Therapy Manufacturing and Regulatory Course  with BioConvS

Attend the Advanced Cell Therapy Manufacturing and Regulatory Course with BioConvS

We are delighted to annouce that BioConvS has initiated a partnership with the Intenational Society for Cell Therapy (ISCT) in order to offer to our members access to the ISCT network and training material! Established in 1992, the International Society for Cell &...

Feature your scientific images at the Festival Double Science

Feature your scientific images at the Festival Double Science

The Double Science Festival is back this year on June 8th&9th at Ground Control Paris! Double•Science is the free public engagement festival where citizens experiment and celebrate knowledge: for a two-way science. Following the success of the 1st edition, the...

BioConvS in La Revue Parlementaire

BioConvS in La Revue Parlementaire

We're thrilled to announce that the DIM BioConvS has been featured on the current issue of La Revue Parlementaire! BioConvS coordinators, Amanda Silva Brun and Ariel Lindner, talk about our project and our commitment for the socio-economic development of...

Attend the SCI FI Program with BioConvS

Attend the SCI FI Program with BioConvS

We are more than happy to renew the partnership between DIM BioConvS, EIT Health, and Medicen Paris Region to offer registrations to DIM BioConvS members to participate in the EIT Health SCI FI program! This program aims to provide scientists with the necessary skills...

Creativity Workshop on May 27th

Creativity Workshop on May 27th

As part of the Innovators of Tomorrow program by DIM BioConvS, we are organizing a workshop in central Paris on Monday, May 27th, aimed at stimulating creativity, led by Todd Lubart, a university professor in psychology specializing in differential psychology,...

BioConvS x Pint of Science

BioConvS x Pint of Science

BioConvS, in collaboration with the LabEx Who Am I and the Graduate school GENE, hosted three nights of scientific events at the welcoming pub Deux-Point-Zéro in the heart of the buzzing 10th arrondissement of Paris. 150 people attended a total of six scientific...

Cycle de Masterclass en Médiation scientifique

Cycle de Masterclass en Médiation scientifique

Les DIM BioConvS, MaTerRe et QuanTIP s’associent pour vous proposer une série de MasterClass en communication et médiation scientifique !   Ouvert à tous, du doctorant au chercheur confirmé des laboratoires affiliés au DIM BioConvS, ce cycle de formations vous...

Attend the Congrès France Bioproduction 2024 with BioConvS

Attend the Congrès France Bioproduction 2024 with BioConvS

The 8th edition of the Congrès France Bioproduction will be held on April 3rd and 4th, 2024, at the Palais des Congrès de Paris-Saclay in Massy. The location of this year’s event in Ile-de-France is a great opportunity for members of our community to attend; we’re...

[closed] Our 2024 PhD fellowships call is now open

[closed] Our 2024 PhD fellowships call is now open

--This call is now closed-- The DIM BioConvS is pleased to announce the opening of the 2024 PhD Fellowships call. This call aims to fund four PhD grants for students working in academic labs within Ile-de-France that are members of BioConvS. Academic labs interested...

Seminar: “Le boom des CAR-T cells”

Seminar: “Le boom des CAR-T cells”

On December 14th, 2023, BioConvS and the Société pour l'Encouragement de l'Industrie Nationale co-organised a conference on biotherapy at the Hotel de l'Industrie, in the heart of Paris. This was our first event of a series of networking opportunities between the...

Pint of Science

Pint of Science

The Labex Who Am I?, the DIM BioConvS, the EUR G.E.N.E, and the Faculté des Sciences of Université de Paris join forces to organize events during the next edition of the Pint of Science 2024 festival on May 13th to 15th 2024. Do...

Innovation Day 2023

Innovation Day 2023

The first annual symposium of the DIM BioConvS was held on November 14th, 2023 at the Conseil Régional d'Ile-de-France. More than 200 participants attended the event and its vibrant poster session and workshops. Discover the talks, the gallery of the event and the...

BioConvS on Mediscope 2023

BioConvS on Mediscope 2023

Medicen is a French competitiveness cluster dedicated to advancing innovation and collaboration in healthcare and life sciences industries, and one of BioConvS' most prominent partners. In their annual review, Mediscope, coordinators Amanda Silva Brun and Ariel...

Fête de la science 2023

Fête de la science 2023

October 12, 2023 - Sorbonne Université - Village des Sciences Inspiring the Scientists of Tomorrow: DIM BioConvS at Sorbonne's Village des Sciences Last week in Paris, the City of Light became a beacon of knowledge and curiosity...

[closed] Equipment call 2023 II

[closed] Equipment call 2023 II

--This call is now closed-- Deadline extended! This DIM BioconvS equipment AAP is now open from October 9, 2023 to March 5, 2024 and devotes a total budget of €675,000 to finance the purchase of equipment. The call will finance exlusively academic labs working on...

Accelerating innovation

Accelerating innovation

Empowering young scientists in Biotherapy, Bioproduction and Synthetic Biology Amanda Silva Brun is CNRS Director of Research at the Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes (UMR 7057) of Université Paris Cité and winner of the 2021 CNRS innovation medal. She is...

BioConvS at the Double•Science Festival

BioConvS at the Double•Science Festival

The first edition of the Double•Science festival took place from May 26th to May 28th, 2023, at Ground Control (Paris 75012). The Café des Sciences, L'Exploratoire, and the French Society of Physics were the co-organizers of this first edition of the festival. May...

Call to action: scientific communication

Call to action: scientific communication

One of the objectives of the DIM BioConvS is to help bridge the gap between science and society, and for this reason we adhere to and promote numerous scientific communication actions. We are therefore looking for French-speaking scientists, at all stages of their...

[closed] Postdoc fellowships 2023

[closed] Postdoc fellowships 2023

This call is now closed. Results will be published in June 2023. BioConvS’ first call for projects, which will fund three postdoctoral 2-year fellowships in the field of synthetic biology for health, is open until March 13th. This call will fund fellowships for a...

Testimonial: my first steps in innovation

Testimonial: my first steps in innovation

Everyone agrees, it is necessary to invest locally in biotech innovation to face the challenges of tomorrow and not lose sovereignty in the health sector. From the France 2030 Plan to local initiatives like our DIM BioConvS, the State and investors are targeting...