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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dear </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">ETH Diversity members<span style="color:black">,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> woul<span style="color:black">d like to draw your attention to our entrepreneurial pre-seed workshop "Bench2Biz" - for young researchers who aim
to commerciali</span>s<span style="color:black">e their findings</span>,<span style="color:black"> or who want to learn about the start-up process and support other ideas. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The deadline for registration has been extended until 14th October with the aim to include a more diversified group of applicants.
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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Bench2Biz is organized by eight
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">National Centres of Competence in Research (<span style="color:black">NCCR</span>)<span style="color:black"> this year and more info as well as the application form can be found at
</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://bench2biz.ch"><span lang="EN-US">https://bench2biz.ch</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Please do not hesitate to forward this mail</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> to anyone interested or
<span style="color:black">invite your group. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">If you have any<span style="color:black"> questions</span>, please do not<span style="color:black"> hesitate to write directly to
</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:info@bench2biz.ch"><span lang="EN-US">info@bench2biz.ch</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">.<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Kind<span style="color:black"> regards,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Elise<span style="color:black"> </span>Cahard<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Elise Cahard, PhD</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Program Manager</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Physikstrasse 3 <br>
CH-8092 Zürich</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">+41 (0) 44 632 3366<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://nccr-automation.ch/"><b><span style="color:#0563C1">https://nccr-automation.ch/</span></b></a><b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt">** </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt">The National Centers of Competence in Research (NCCR) are a funding scheme of the Swiss National Science Foundation</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt">
(</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.snf.ch/en/funding/programmes/national-centres-of-competence-in-research-nccr/Pages/default.aspx"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0563C1">SNSF</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt">)**</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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