b'NBIC Policy ReportsWHAT WE HAVE PLANNEDIn line with current NBIC priorities, weWe are currently collating policy papers on priority areas have put more focus on our policy-makingand will engage with, and make these available to our efforts and have assembled a workingpartners for input. group, striving to progress NBICs influence.In order to help our partners and collaborators better understand and navigate the policy-making landscape in The working group within NBIC, composed of membersthe UK, we have prepared the NBIC Policy Noticeboard of the Executive Management Team and Operationalon our website, which provides some helpful links with Management Group, has conducted brainstormingfree training provided by the Knowledge Exchange meetings also with partners and attended informationUnit of the UK Parliament, with guides on how to write gathering sessions in order to better understand the UKa policy brief and further information regarding UK policy-making landscape and to understand where NBICand Devolved Nations policy-making processes. We fits into the landscape, and how best it can utilise itsalso use this page to highlight upcoming events and current resources for maximum impact to the benefit ofopportunities. our stakeholders needs.Demonstrating this so called soft power, according to Joseph Nye (1991) builds on common interests and values to attract, persuade and influence (shaping preferences through appeal and attraction rather than coercion). NBIC foresees playing a part in the UK fully exploiting its strength in biofilm research and advancing its reputation internationally. Via promoting and facilitating science cooperation in the area of biofilms (as NBIC for example undertakes with the CBE and SCELSE in its International Biofilms Standards Task Group) it helps to promote a truly Global Britain.21'