As part of the TRANS-GLIOMA project we invited Barbara Hrastar, student of biology, to work as volunteer through The Interreg Volunteer Youth (IVY) Initiative

As part of the TRANS-GLIOMA project in the Program Italy-Slovenia, which aim is to increase the cooperation between the key actors in the field of biomedicine (research institutes, hospitals, universities and enterprises), to promote the transfer of knowledge and innovative biomedical techniques in the field of brain cancer (glioblastoma) and improving the competitiveness of research in oncology, we invited Barbara Hrastar, student of biology, to work as volunteer through The Interreg Volunteer Youth (IVY) Initiative.

The Interreg Volunteer Youth (IVY) Initiative is a pilot action to offer the possibility to young Europeans to serve as volunteers in cross-border, transnational or interregional programmes and related projects. The initiative is aimed at involving young European volunteers to support, promote and report the concrete achievements of these programmes and projects, as well as generally promote European Territorial Cooperation and related values such as solidarity.

She will actively participate as IVY volunteers in the TRANS-GLIOMA project, where she will help to establish a joint Slovenian- Italian regional tumor bank (called GLIOBANKA) and she will assist in the laboratory work, where the focus is to find new treatment options for this tumor. She will be involved in the organization of the international conference, Brain tumors: from bench to clinic, which will be held on the 26th of November 2019 in Ljubljana, Slovenia (https://braintumorsfrombenchtoclinic.com/).