Author: Mark Gontsarik

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Sponsorships

CESPE Conference 2025 Sponsorship Packages

As a sponsor of our event you will have the chance to:

  • Create visibility for your company through on-site advertisement as well as pre- and post- event promotions
  • Network and discuss with some of the leading experts in the field
  • Showcase your products
  • Get introduced to the scientific community of Ghent active within the field of sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing.
  • Interact with ~150 participants with equal representation from industry and academia

A number of sponsor packages are shown below. If the available packages do not provide a perfect match for your needs, please reach out to us for a customized offer.

Contact Mark.Gontsarik@UGent.be for further questions or to discuss your sponsorship package.

GOLD

€ 5000.-
(€ 3500.- for CESPE-members)

✓ 5
EVENT TICKETS
(incl. dinner)

✓ DOUBLE SIZED
EXHIBITION BOOTH INCLUDED*

✓ LOGO ON THE
EVENT WEBSITE

✓ FULL PAGE
AD IN DIGITAL
EVENT BOOKLET

✓ COMPANY LOGO IN
EMAIL ANNOUNCEMENTS

✓ LARGE LOGO PROJECTION
DURING BREAKS &
BEFORE NEXT SPEAKER

✓ INTERVIEW & EXPOSURE
IN THE AFTERMOVIE

SILVER

€ 2500.-
(€ 1750.- for CESPE-members)

✓ 2
EVENT TICKETS
(incl. dinner)

✓ EXHIBITION
BOOTH INCLUDED*

✓ LOGO ON THE
EVENT WEBSITE

✓ FULL PAGE
AD IN DIGITAL
EVENT BOOKLET

✓ COMPANY LOGO IN
EMAIL ANNOUNCEMENTS

✓ SMALL LOGO PROJECTION
DURING BREAKS &
BEFORE NEXT SPEAKER

✓ INTERVIEW & EXPOSURE
IN THE AFTERMOVIE

BRONZE

€ 1000.-
(€ 700.- for CESPE-members)

✓ 1
EVENT TICKET
(incl. dinner)

Х NO BOOTH

✓ LOGO ON THE
EVENT WEBSITE

✓ 1/2 PAGE
AD IN DIGITAL
EVENT BOOKLET

✓ COMPANY LOGO IN
EMAIL ANNOUNCEMENTS

✓ SMALL LOGO PROJECTION
DURING BREAKS &
BEFORE NEXT SPEAKER

Х INTERVIEW & EXPOSURE
IN THE AFTERMOVIE

* Number of Double Sized exhibition booths is limited to 2 and the total number of booths is limited to 5. The booths are assigned on first-come-first-served basis.

Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your reach in our ecosystem!
Please find photos of exhibition booths from our last year’s event below!

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Registration

CESPE Conference 2025 Registration

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Registrations are open for our 4th edition of our yearly conference titled: ‘Scaling Sustainable (Bio)Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: From Innovation to Impact’ that will take place on 22nd October 2025.

Registrations and payments can be made through our Congrezzo platform.

For registrations before September 15th 2025, the Early Bird attendance fees are €300.-/€400.- for industry (CESPE-member/non-member) and €75.-/€125.- for academic (CESPE-member/non-member) participants. The Early Bird fee for participants from governmental or non-profit organizations is €125.-.

For the networking dinner, a supplement of €75.- is charged.

For registrations after September 15th 2025, the normal attendance fees are €400.-/550.- for industry (CESPE-member/non-member) and €125.-/€200.- for academic (CESPE-member/non-member) participants. The normal fee for participants from governmental or non-profit organizations is €200.-.

The deadline for registration is October 20th.

Information on sponsorships and exhibition booths at the event can be found here.

For any further questions relating to the conference and CESPE, please contact Mark Gontsarik (Mark.Gontsarik@UGent.be) or Christoph Portier (Christoph.Portier@UGent.be). We are happy to assist you!

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CESPE Academy Courses

GAMP Training

Register here

Course takes place from 17th to 18th of June 2025 at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

COURSE OVERVIEW

Interested in expanding your knowledge of Good Automated Manufacturing Practice (GAMP), Computerized System Validation, Regulations, and more? Experts from QbD Group will be instructing a 2-day training that will do exactly that. Check the information on the course below to decide if it suits your needs!

Production systems for the pharmaceutical and food industries have to comply with ever-stricter legislation. This training not only offers you theoretical knowledge of the basic aspects of GAMP – with a focus on the detailed life cycle – but also offers multiple practical exercises.

Additionally, a test will be provided so that you can check if you can apply your gained knowledge.The course begins with an introduction to GAMP principles and gradually builds to more complex examples and exercises.

Target Audience

The target audience are professionals or students in chemical, pharmaceutical & healthcare sciences and engineering.

  • No prior knowledge needed
  • Practical learning approach
  • Ideal for more in-depth practitioners, who want to get more examples and use cases included as part of the training

Course has a 2-day programme:

Day 1

The following will be addressed:

Introduction to GAMP

Detailed Lifecycle

Regulations (21 Cfr part 11; Annex 11)

Extended Exercises on Validation, Specifications, Risk Assessment

Day 2

The following will be addressed:

Detailed Lifecycle and Verification Reporting

Operational Phase

Extended Exercises on Test Execution and Report, Validation, Requirements Matrix


COURSE PROGRAMME

An overview of the course programme can be found in the following document.

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Registrations are open for this course, please follow the ‘REGISTER HERE’ link above. If you have any questions please email Mark Gontsarik (mark.gontsarik@ugent.be).

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Team

Dr. Mark Gontsarik

Project Manager

Ghent University
Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Pharmaceutical Engineering & Manufacturing
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Campus Heymans
Ottergemsesteenweg 460
B-9000 Gent, Belgium

mark.gontsarik@ugent.be

+32 9 264 81 18

Mark Gontsarik joined CESPE as a Project Manager in 2024. He is responsible for the establishment of flagship projects & bilateral projects with industrial partners. In addition, he supports the further development of the CESPE Academy as well as the operational development. After obtaining his MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Copenhagen University, he joined the EMPA Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and graduated with a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2019. As a postdoctoral researcher, Mark worked at the Department of Chemistry in Fribourg University, Switzerland, and most recently at the Department of Pharmaceutics in University of Ghent, Belgium. Mark’s research focused on stimuli-responsive lipid nanoparticles for delivery of therapeutic peptides and RNA. His expertise ranges from chemical synthesis of lipid components of nanoparticles to their physico-chemical and biological characterization.