Basel Life Forum Launches on BioValley.ch with Partner glocals.com; Win iPhone
Basel, Switzerland, March 09, 2008 --(PR.com)-- BioValley.ch announces the launch of Basel Life in partnership with glocals.com, which offers forums and networking platforms in several cities and regions in Switzerland.
Basel Life targets a business and academic audience, which is interested in sharing Best Business Practices, strengthening industry and academia relationships, finding new business contacts and partners, discussing emerging research, learning about the culture and social strengths of the greater Basel region and much more.
BioValley.ch is proud to start Basel Life with three main categories:
- Living in Basel,
- Business in Basel and
- Academic and Industry Research.
“We see Basel Life helping the region in many ways,” explains Mark Inglin, Head of the Basel Life forum launch. “It will help educate professionals outside the region, spur business opportunities, increase dialogue between industry and academia and help people enjoy the many wonderful cultural and social aspects of the greater Basel region.”
In conjunction with the launch of Basel Life, Biovalley.ch is offering over CHF 7’000 in prizes for visitors who use the forum. Post from March 10 until June 2 and if you are one of the top four posters, you can win one of the four Grand Prizes: an iPhone from glocals.com, a year membership to City Sports Club, an iPod Touch 16GB from Ingenodata or a Tom Tom GO 720T from Microspot.ch. The top poster will have first pick of the four prizes, the second place poster will choose from the remaining three and the third top poster will choose between the remaining two prizes.
“We are grateful to our sponsors, who like Biovalley.ch, wanted to add a unique forum that will help spur interest in the Basel region both locally and internationally,” says Mark.
In addition to the Grand Prizes, each week from March 10 until June 2 of this year, the top poster will receive a prize. Weekly prizes range from CHF 70 to CHF 200 in value and include prizes such as cameras, restaurant gift certificates, wellness spas and fitness centers. For a list of prizes and information visit:
http://www.biovalley.ch/forum/prizes.html
"We are very excited to be cooperating with BioValley.ch on the new Basel Life forum, because these forums will address a real need for Basel people - expats and locals - to share info,” says Nir Ofek, Co-Founder of glocals.com. “We launched a similar Geneva Life forum last year, and over 15,000 Geneva people registered to use it. We hope to be helpful to the Basel folks as well."
The greater Basel region is the leading life sciences cluster in Europe and ranks among the top five regions in the world. The life sciences account for 80 percent of commerce in the region. BioValley Basel and its website, Biovalley.ch, help network the region and help promote the region to the world.
Sign up for a free daily newsletter about all the news and events surrounding the companies and academia in the Basel region: http://www.biovalley.ch/news/e-newsletters.html
About Basel Life Forum Launch
Basel Life forum launch will run from March 10 until June 2. The top four posters (a combined total of posts and visits) will be able to choose from: an Apple iPhone, a year membership to City Sports Club, an iPod Touch 16 GB from Ingenodata or a Tom Tom GO 720T from Microspot.ch. In addition, posters will have the opportunity to win weekly prizes from Basel Tourismus, City Sports Club, Jays Indian Restaurant, Jeffery’s Thai Restaurant, Les Trois Rois, Messe Schweiz, Microspot.ch, Sakura, Sole Uno, Thalia and Tibits. Any misuse of posting will leading to disqualification. In addition, BioValley.ch reserves the right to disqualify posters if their posts do not add significant value to the forum.
About BioValley.ch
BioValley.ch is the life sciences (Pharma, Biotech, Chemistry, Diagnostics, Medtech, Nanotech, and research) information portal for the greater Basel region. It aggregates all the industry and academia news, events and information about Europe’s leading life sciences cluster into a One-Stop portal. It is the global headquarters of companies such as: Novartis, Roche, Syngenta, Synthes, Lonza, Straumann and Actelion. BioValley.ch is non-profit and encourages its visitors to send their life sciences related news, events and information for the Basel region for free publishing. BioValley.ch is property of BioValley Basel.
About Glocals.com
glocals.com is Switzerland's largest online social-network of international people - expats & locals. glocals.com has 16,000 members, and is present in Geneva, Zurich, & Lausanne, and is now expanding to Basel. Joining is free for all English speakers, age 18 or older.
For further questions, quotes or an interview, please contact the following:
Media Contacts:
Robert Derham
BioValley.ch
T: 061 267 0447
M: 078 662 5231
Mark Inglin
Head of Basel Life Forum
T: 061 267 0447
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Basel Life targets a business and academic audience, which is interested in sharing Best Business Practices, strengthening industry and academia relationships, finding new business contacts and partners, discussing emerging research, learning about the culture and social strengths of the greater Basel region and much more.
BioValley.ch is proud to start Basel Life with three main categories:
- Living in Basel,
- Business in Basel and
- Academic and Industry Research.
“We see Basel Life helping the region in many ways,” explains Mark Inglin, Head of the Basel Life forum launch. “It will help educate professionals outside the region, spur business opportunities, increase dialogue between industry and academia and help people enjoy the many wonderful cultural and social aspects of the greater Basel region.”
In conjunction with the launch of Basel Life, Biovalley.ch is offering over CHF 7’000 in prizes for visitors who use the forum. Post from March 10 until June 2 and if you are one of the top four posters, you can win one of the four Grand Prizes: an iPhone from glocals.com, a year membership to City Sports Club, an iPod Touch 16GB from Ingenodata or a Tom Tom GO 720T from Microspot.ch. The top poster will have first pick of the four prizes, the second place poster will choose from the remaining three and the third top poster will choose between the remaining two prizes.
“We are grateful to our sponsors, who like Biovalley.ch, wanted to add a unique forum that will help spur interest in the Basel region both locally and internationally,” says Mark.
In addition to the Grand Prizes, each week from March 10 until June 2 of this year, the top poster will receive a prize. Weekly prizes range from CHF 70 to CHF 200 in value and include prizes such as cameras, restaurant gift certificates, wellness spas and fitness centers. For a list of prizes and information visit:
http://www.biovalley.ch/forum/prizes.html
"We are very excited to be cooperating with BioValley.ch on the new Basel Life forum, because these forums will address a real need for Basel people - expats and locals - to share info,” says Nir Ofek, Co-Founder of glocals.com. “We launched a similar Geneva Life forum last year, and over 15,000 Geneva people registered to use it. We hope to be helpful to the Basel folks as well."
The greater Basel region is the leading life sciences cluster in Europe and ranks among the top five regions in the world. The life sciences account for 80 percent of commerce in the region. BioValley Basel and its website, Biovalley.ch, help network the region and help promote the region to the world.
Sign up for a free daily newsletter about all the news and events surrounding the companies and academia in the Basel region: http://www.biovalley.ch/news/e-newsletters.html
About Basel Life Forum Launch
Basel Life forum launch will run from March 10 until June 2. The top four posters (a combined total of posts and visits) will be able to choose from: an Apple iPhone, a year membership to City Sports Club, an iPod Touch 16 GB from Ingenodata or a Tom Tom GO 720T from Microspot.ch. In addition, posters will have the opportunity to win weekly prizes from Basel Tourismus, City Sports Club, Jays Indian Restaurant, Jeffery’s Thai Restaurant, Les Trois Rois, Messe Schweiz, Microspot.ch, Sakura, Sole Uno, Thalia and Tibits. Any misuse of posting will leading to disqualification. In addition, BioValley.ch reserves the right to disqualify posters if their posts do not add significant value to the forum.
About BioValley.ch
BioValley.ch is the life sciences (Pharma, Biotech, Chemistry, Diagnostics, Medtech, Nanotech, and research) information portal for the greater Basel region. It aggregates all the industry and academia news, events and information about Europe’s leading life sciences cluster into a One-Stop portal. It is the global headquarters of companies such as: Novartis, Roche, Syngenta, Synthes, Lonza, Straumann and Actelion. BioValley.ch is non-profit and encourages its visitors to send their life sciences related news, events and information for the Basel region for free publishing. BioValley.ch is property of BioValley Basel.
About Glocals.com
glocals.com is Switzerland's largest online social-network of international people - expats & locals. glocals.com has 16,000 members, and is present in Geneva, Zurich, & Lausanne, and is now expanding to Basel. Joining is free for all English speakers, age 18 or older.
For further questions, quotes or an interview, please contact the following:
Media Contacts:
Robert Derham
BioValley.ch
T: 061 267 0447
M: 078 662 5231
Mark Inglin
Head of Basel Life Forum
T: 061 267 0447
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