Timeline policy practices

Week 22

- Meetings

• Meeting up with Bart Wijnhoven and discussing the TU/e matching days
• A first meeting with all iGEM teams of the Netherlands in collaboration with the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and the Rathenau Institute

Week 23 & 24

- TU/e matching days

• Introducing new students to synthetic biology

Week 26

- mr. drs. Virgil Rerimassie of the Rathenau Institute

• A promising brainstorm session with mr drs. Virgil Rerimassie from the Rathenau Institute discussing policy practices in relation to our project

Week 27 & 28

- emails, emails, emails

• Making (internet) contact with different stakeholders
• Brainstorming about application scenarios

Week 29

- The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)

• We had an appointment with Claudette de Vries and Robert Geertsma of the RIVM. We discussed the directives and regulations of new medicines, medical devices and in vitro diagnostics
• We met Eric van den Akker of the GMO bureau (RIVM) discussing rules and regulations of the introduction of GMOs in the environment