b'International StrategyFACILITATING INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT AND COLLABORATION IN BIOFILMSThe overall goals and strategic intent of NBICs international collaborations are to leverage our current position within the global scientific biofilm community and prioritise outreach to key developed and emerging regions. Our international strategy strives for:Working with biofilm academic centres that are prominent and endeavour to advance the field. We build on our existing relationships with India, Singapore and the US, to explore academic, industrial and regulatory synergies.Acquiring new contacts in other regions supported by international grants for the developing world. We have recently been successful in obtaining BBSRC funding for an international workshop to establish a new synergistic partnership between NBIC and the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) in Ghana.Establishing international industrial contacts where these can stimulate the growth of the UK science and industrial base in translational biofilm research. As an example, we are co-organising (in October 2022), with the Argentinean Society for General Microbiology (SAMIGE), a workshop titled Biofilms in Agriculture aimed at bringing together key researchers and industry representatives from both countries to catalyse collaborations in the area of plant-microbial interactions and sustainable crop production.Our aim, as a consortium of 63 UK research organisations, is to become a strong partner to a larger, more powerful and influential international network of industry and academic partners.23'