Selected Activities

Most of our activities are on federal or national level.

But we are covering issues beyond national level, too.

Here we present examples from our european and international activities.

At the end of 2025, the European Commission presented the draft of the EU Biotech Act I. This first EU Biotech Act focuses on the pharmaceutical sector. Further Biotech Acts covering other sectors are to follow. In its statement, the VBIO welcomes the EU’s aim to create a coherent framework for promoting biotechnology and to accelerate the implementation of the findings. However, the focus on the later (‘market-oriented’) part of the value chain has significant consequences for basic research and its institutions – without these being able to benefit from the ‘relief instruments’ provided for in the draft EU Biotech Act I. The VBIO therefore expects additional programmes to mitigate this imbalance and recommends continuous monitoring of the impact on basic research.

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According to VBIO, the “Strategy for European Life Sciences” presented by the EU Commission at the beginning of July is a strong signal for the life sciences. However, the strategy's impact will become evident only after translation into concrete measures. The active involvement of basic research is just as essential as the sustainable safeguarding of scientific data infrastructures. Bold steps are needed to reduce bureaucracy in higher education and research, especially in the fields of biotechnology and genetic engineering. Cross-sectoral issues such as One Health and the bioeconomy are becoming increasingly important and require binding governance.

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Joint submission on Notification 2024-115 concerning themultilateral mechanism for the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources, including a global fund ("The Cali Fund"): Submission of views on possible additional modalities of the multilateral mechanism.
More: Joint submission on Notification 2024-115  under Observers, No. 14

Joint statement of DVGeo, DPG, GDCh, DMV and VBIO: Open discourse and international cooperation are essential
The mathematical and scientific societies undited under the roof of “science bridges cultures/”Wissenschaft verbindet” are dismayed by the anti-democratic and nationalistic approaches in Germany that threaten and marginalize individuals and entire groups. 
With their declaration, the mathematical and scientific societies - the Umbrella Association of Geosciences (DVGeo), the German Mathematical Society (DMV), the German Physical Society (DPG), the German Chemical Society (GDCh) and the Association of Biology, Biosciences and Biomedicine in Germany (VBIO) - are defending themselves against nationalist and anti-democratic efforts of all kinds. In doing so, they are sending out a signal for freedom of research, democracy and the rule of law, as well as openness to the world and international cooperation. These points are prerequisites for the scientific, economic and social well-being of our country - and therefore also for the individual standard of living of each and every one of us.

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