Penn State College of Medicine and it’s Innovation Café© program have been accepted to an international conference for best practices. The University-Industry Interaction Conference 2014 is hosted by the University Industry Innovation Network (UIIN) in cooperation with the Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP) which represents eight universities in Cataluña with more than 200,000 students and 15,000+ teaching and research staff. This year’s event will convene in Barcelona, Spain this April 23-25. UIIN accepted a proposal from Dr. Keith Marmer and it will be published in their journal in addition to being presented at the conference. Dr. Marmer is a current board member of UEDA and the Innovation Café© program was recognized as a finalist for the 2013 UEDA Awards of Excellence.