Due to circumstances we had to cancel the February Cafe, unfortunately. Thanks for understanding and we are looking forward to welcoming you next month! The second Thursday of March. :)

Happy New Year! Hope you had awesome holidays and New Year's and we are looking forward to 2023. In January – when a lot of people are busy or away – we will be making plans for the coming months. Will we see you again in February? :D

This second Thursday of December we will be organising a 'Fermentation Special'!

Back in Biopartner this month for a regular (still awesome) cafe filled with cool speakers, networking and drinks!

Note: We will be starting a little bit later today. Walk-in as of 17:15 and start at 17:45!

This October we will be back with a brand new Science meets Business Café! Join us for an exciting evening filled with speakers from both academia and small medium business in and around Leiden!

September no cafe.
More info follows soon

This special Leiden City of Science Year we will keep your summer interesting with something we haven’t done before — a Science Quiz Game!

We wouldn’t be ourselves if we went along with standard pubquiz questions about the dates, names and other random facts. Instead, the quiz would aim to test your out-of-the-box thinking, intuition and ability to work in a team. No preparation needed!

Naturally, this is also a great opportunity to network in a refreshing way by playing with people you don’t know and stay for drinks afterwards.

No lockdown or measures this year! Which means we can go ahead with our BBQ in June!

Networking, catching-up with colleagues or (old) classmates, matching for jobs or internships: we will be doing it all again!

Made possible by: Science Based Business (Leiden University), LEH, Baseclear

This May we will be back at PLNT! And in its honour, we will be giving special attention to science based entrepreneurship. With a few cool updates and entrepreneurs' views on exit strategies.

After an awesome special edition at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave we're back at BioPartner for a 'regular' cafe!

This March we will be kicking off our post COVID series with a special cafe themed by the Leiden 2022 Agenda: The (Artificial) Kidney!

We are excited to be hosting the event at the holder of two historical artificial kidneys: Rijksmuseum Boerhaave.

Our three speakers will represent the past, present and future of the artificial kidney.

How have we been and will we be saving millions of lives with science?

Join us to find out!

Can't make it physically? Join the livestream via: https://youtu.be/1-z9NiJr5Ug

Back at Biopartner for the first traditional SmB Cafe this November!

This month we'll host our SmB Cafe at PLNT again! And as we do, we like our PLNT events to be themed and this time we will be bringing you different approaches and uses of AI (Artificial Intelligence)!

After a long time of lockdown and not or only virtually seeing each other: we're back in business! With Science Based Business none the least. Our traditional June BBQ couldn't take place in June, so that's why we are hosting it in September. Can't wait to see our SmB regulars as well as the SBB alumni again!

The rest of the speakers will be announced shortly! Follow LinkedIn or register for our newsletter to get a notification!

Note: The talks will be hosted inside (seated) and the BBQ outside, all within the COVID-guidelines.

We've missed you guys and have decided to start up again online. Collaborating with Venture Cafe Rotterdam, who has similar goals to our and has shown that networking can be done in a fun way online as well, we will dive into Innovation and Collaboration, giving the podium to initiatives and companies that are making a difference through collaboration in the greater Rotterdam and Leiden area.

Keep an eye on our socials for the info on how to join!

Due to the COVID-19 scare we have decided to not host our cafes as of April 2020. Our team decided that yet another online session would not contribute to our goal and therefore would not be worth your and our time. We are currently exploring how we can offer you the content-filled networking you want and need, while respecting all the necessary health precautions. We will keep you up to date!

[Canceled] This SmB Special we will be diving into intellectual property.

After a nice start of 2020 we will be back in March with another Cafe in BioPartner.

After the holiday season we will be back with science and business inspiration and networking you were lacking. Looking forward to welcoming everyone again!

Due to circumstances we can no longer host the Science Battle, unfortunately.

Since we want to deliver quality programmes we decided to not quickly fill a new programme for the evenening and decided to cancel the session alltogether.

We hope you find a good alternative for the evening and we will be back after the Holiday and New Years' events and start with a bang in February (Thursday the 13th).

We wish you all the best and are looking forward to welcoming you in 2020!