Regional Branch Offices
EFB and its activities are administered and supported by the following offices:
- EFB Central Office (ECO)
The ECO takes care of most administrative matters of EFB.
- EFB Regional Branch Offices (RBOs)
The RBOs address a number of regional tasks and support selected EFB Sections and Task Groups. Regional Tasks include:- Representing EFB in their region
- Keeping good contacts with the national biotechnologists and the regional authorities
- Ensuring EFB presence at relevant biotech events in their region
- Arranging regional events
- Distributing EFB and EC info in their region and providing regional information for the EFB website
If you wish to know more about the rules for applying as an EFB Regional Branch Office, please go to: RBO Applications
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The EFB Central Office, located in Barcelona, takes care of most administrative matters of the Federation.
The Gent RBO is located at the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) and serves as EFB Regional Branch Office for Belgium.
The Central America and the Caribbean RBO is located at the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust and serves as EFB Regional Branch Office for Puerto Rico.
The Aarhus RBO is located at BioMedico Forum and serves as EFB Regional Branch Office for Denmark.
The Tartu RBO is located at the Estonian Genome Foundation and serves as EFB Regional Branch Office for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
The Turku RBO is located at Turku Bio Valley Ltd and serves as EFB Regional Branch Office for Finland and St. Petersburg.
The Paris RBO is located at the Societe de Chimie Industrielle and serves as EFB Regional Branch Office for France.
The Frankfurt RBO is located at Dechema and serves as EFB Regional Branch Office for Germany.
The Athens RBO is located at BioProsperity Ltd and serves as EFB Regional Branch Office for Greece.
The Szeged RBO is located at the University of Szeged and serves as EFB Regional Branch Office for Hungary, Slovenia and South-Eastern Europe.
The Bologna RBO is located at the University of Bologna and serves as EFB Regional Branch Office for Italy.
The Oslo RBO is located at MedCoast Scandinavia and serves as EFB Regional Branch Office for Norway and Iceland.
The Warsaw RBO is located at the Warsaw University of Technology and serves as EFB Regional Branch Office for Poland, Ukraine and Belarus.
The Moscow RBO is located at the Russian Society of Biotechnologists and serves as EFB Regional Branch Office for Russia.
The Ljubljana RBO is located at the National Institute of Chemistry and serves as EFB Regional Branch Office for Slovenia.
The Madrid RBO is located at the Spanish Society of Biotechnology (SEBiot) and serves as EFB Regional Branch Office for Spain.
The Zwitzerland RBO is located at the Swiss Coordination Committee for Biotechnology SCCB and serves as EFB Regional Branch Office for Zwitzerland.
The UK RBO is located at the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) and serves as EFB Regional Branch Office for United Kingdom.