BioVision - The World Life Sciences Forum will enlarge its capacity to serve as a global platform for dialogue and vigorous debate between Science, Society and Industry leading to concrete recommendations for action.

To achieve this action oriented agenda, BioVision introduces a new architecture including a series of pre-conferences in 2006, to catalyze and develop debate topics for the March 2007 Forum. The "fil rouge" for this Forum will be:

"The Contribution of Life Sciences to the Millennium Development Goals"

In 2000, at the United Nations Assembly, 189 world heads of State and Government agreed to a set of time bound and measurable goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women. Now called the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), they provide a framework not only for the UN system and Governments, but also for industry, science and civil society to work coherently together towards a common challenge. BioVision will take a proactive leadership role in stimulating the appropriate contribution of Life Sciences to achieve these Goals. Two-thirds of the 2007 Forum sessions will be dedicated to addressing the Millennium Development Goals and one-third to the cutting edge developments in Life Sciences.