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BIO-Europe Spring
THE SPRINGTIME PARTNERING EVENT
March 17–19, 2025 | Milan, ItalyMarch 25–26, 2025 | Digital Partnering

EBD ACADEMY PRE-EVENT COURSES

EBD Academy offers practical courses year-round, including an ideal opportunity to boost your business development skills before attending BIO-Europe Spring.

BIO-Europe Spring attendees

Access a €200 discount if you are already registered for BIO-Europe Spring 2025. Please reach out to Karis Ives (kives@ebdgroup.com) to receive the discount code.

Featured EBD Academy courses

Molecules to Market

Milan, Italy
March 15–16, 2025

This course focuses on how biopharma professionals can support the development of advanced therapies and prepare the BioPharma sector for success, by exploring the skills required in today’s market, including research and development, market/patient access and effective collaboration


Biotech and Pharmaceutical Mini MBA

London, United Kingdom
November 24–28, 2025

This course is designed for biotech and pharmaceutical executives who want to enhance their commercial skills in strategic thinking, marketing, change management, business finance and managing commercial partnerships to take the business to new heights.

Pharmaceutical and Biotech Licensing

Online
February 3 – March 6, 2025

This course is designed for those new to life science business development and licensing, someone who encounters licensing on a regular basis and would like to learn more, or someone considering a move into life science business development.

Product Valuation and Deal Structure

Online
February 18–25, 2025

Suitable for professionals who want to learn about valuation concepts, best practices for assessing and valuing assets and gain confidence in the financial aspect’s future negotiations.


Negotiation

Online
June 2–6, 2025

For professionals who already have a business development role who want to gain experience with all parts of the negotiation process, learn the latest negotiation techniques and hone their skills for real-life dealmaking.

Due Diligence

Online
October 6–16, 2025

This course is suitable for anyone likely to be involved in a due diligence evaluation and who would like to prepare for the process. Attendees may include executives and commercial managers and those in legal departments.

Craig T. Havtrick

President

Caventure Drug Discovery

I enjoyed the style of open conversational presentation the trainer had. I found the course useful for both experienced and inexperienced students.

About EBD Academy

Brought to you by EBD Group, EBD Academy courses enhance key skills and competencies that enable you to successfully navigate biopharma business development. With virtual course offerings in 2025, EBD Academy gives you the ability to conduct courses from anywhere in the world by accessing training materials and subject matter experts online. Our courses are developed and delivered by EBD Group’s expert network. EBD Group specializes in bringing people together, whether face-to-face at one of our life science partnering events or virtually through our online community of dealmakers and thought-leaders. Over the past two decades, our products and services have grown to become the heart of a highly networked ecosystem of industry collaborators. EBD Academy offered in-person pre-event courses at some of EBD Group’s flagship partnering conferences like BIO-Europe and BIO-Europe Spring. As EBD Group is able to bring our community together in-person again, we will consider the ability for us to run in-person trainings alongside the partnering events as well. Until then, we look forward to providing you with industry-leading business development training virtually.