The event will comprise the following programme:

Life Science in the Stockholm-Uppsala cluster

Access to finance for life science companies
 - The financing of biopharmaceutical product development in Europe -
presentation of a new study by DTI and the European Commission
 - Expected sources of financing in Sweden
 - EU policies and instruments to improve access to finance – new proposals
 - The company perspective on access to finance
 - Conclusions on improving access to finance

SME-friendly measures in the European Union
 - SwedenBIO EU Support Office
 - SMEs Go Health – how to get life science SMEs involved in FP7
 - Experiences from FP7
 - European Medicines Agency's SME office – the services and fee reductions offered to SMEs

Registration:
www.swedenbio.com/ec

Contact:
Tomas Jonsson, European Commission, +32-2-29 60 551(tomas.jonsson@ec.europa.eu)

Jacob Ehnfors, SwedenBIO, +46-8-21 36 02 (jacob.ehnfors@swedenbio.com)