Cooperation in connection with the financing in 2016 of the Flemish participation in the ESFRI project EMBRC (R-7014)

EMBRC is a distributed infrastructure and aims to: 1. Become a major European provider of marine biological research facilities, resources and services, 2. Secure the long-term maintenance and strategic development of the infrastructure to support top-level marine biological research and its applications, 3. Provide co-ordination and leadership which will catalyse research partnerships, and inform future funding initiatives and infrastructure requirements, 4. Foster mobility of European researchers between member states and between industry and academia, 5. Ensure standardisation of data collection, storage and transmission, workflows and training, 6. Develop a knowledge and technology transfer platform to help facilitate innovation and to support the blue economy by improving the conditions to generate an applied service or product from a discovery, 7. Advertise, promote and enhance training in marine science, 8. Identify and interact with important stakeholders at regional, national, European, international and global level. 9. Enhance communication between academia and industry, policy and the public.

Keywords:EMBRC, ESFRI

Disciplines:Animal biology, Evolutionary biology, General biology, Veterinary medicine

Project type:Collaboration project