The ReTuBi efforts on promoting its networking initiatives have been rewarded and the project has been experiencing iMM-wide visibility and community interest through new applications, promoting the development of networks and collaborations amongst research groups of the consortium. Regarding the ReTuBi second and final reporting period we have reached the following activities:
• Staff Exchanges - During the second report period of the project's implementation, the ReTuBi has conducted 35 staff exchanges.
• Scholarship Conference Award – For the second report period, we awarded 21 conference awards
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• Workshops – we organized the Second Edition of the Career Development and soft skills for young scientists – From Lisbon to the World (February 20-21, 2018, iMM, Lisbon, Portugal) and the second edition of the Workshop on High-Resolution Light Microscopy (October 22-26, 2018, iMM, Lisbon, Portugal)
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• Scientific Symposia. We held two scientific symposia on the second reporting period: one related to “Cancer metastasis and cell migration” in 2-4 May 2018, Douro, Portugal. A second one related to “Stem cells mutagenesis” on July 3-5, 2018, Montargil, Portugal.
• Joint lab meetings – We organized a total of 5 joint lab retreats between iMM, DKFZ and Curie Institut labs.
• ReTuBi Lectures – in the second report we received 19 expert visits whose lectures promoted the quality of the research knowledge to the iMM research community, with a special focus on the PhD and Post-doc communities.
• ReTuBi Joint Summer School – the Second Summer School was held in September 17-20, 2018 in parallel with one Scientific Symposia on signaling (SINAL 2018). This maximized resource efficiency and ensure high number of participants by promoting themes related with the cancer and tumour biology.
• Communication and Dissemination – through communication and dissemination activities efforts are made to raise awareness towards the ReTuBi project through the development of the ReTuBi logo, website page, press releases, brochure, newsletters, social media, events and meetings.
• Ethics – Staff exchanges are the activities susceptible of having associated ethical issues, therefore, specific scientific activity plans for each staff exchange are previously defined. Consequently, eventual ethical issues involved in each individual staff exchange is intrinsically connected with the design of the activity plan for that staff exchange, and the ethics assessment process for each individual exchange is also required to be carried out closer to the actual timing of the visit.
