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| Title | Infrastructure Funding in the Life Sciences |
| Grant Agreement Number | 211928 |
| Funding Programmes | FP7 |
| Dates | 01/04/2008 - 30/09/2011 |
| Project URL | http://www.era-instruments.eu |
| Scientific Domain |
Biological and Medical Sciences |
| Action Line | ERA-NET |
| Type Of Project | CSA |
| Abstract | It has become increasingly obvious that concepts and strategies for research infrastructure (RI) funding should be harmonised and coordinated within the EU. ESFRI has determined requirements for European RI funding and has presented a roadmap. Growing attention is paid to life sciences that rely on RIs of a less centralised, but more networked dimension. There is a clear need for action in the interdisciplinary area between physics, chemistry, biology and medical sciences as cutting edge instrumentation becomes increasingly expensive and, yet, indispensable for world-class research. However, promotion of research policies, apart from the ESFRI projects, has been restricted so far to national efforts without managing these actions with a European view. Funding and research organisations can not afford to remain at the national stage with world-wide competition for the best scientists and the most promising projects. Frontier research is international since long and funding organisations have to follow scientists to the European level. ERA-Instruments aims at initiating coordination and a sustainable network of ministries, charities, funding agencies and research councils active in funding of life science RI. |
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Coordinator
(Organisation name and Country) |
DEUTSCHE FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT, Germany |
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Partners
(Organisation name and Country) |
Ethniko Idryma Erevnon, Greece MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, United Kingdom Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) , Belgium NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK, Netherlands BUNDESMINISTERIUM FUR WISSENSCHAFT UND FORSCHUNG BMWF, Austria HERMANN VON HELMHOLTZ-GEMEINSCHAFT DEUTSCHER FORSCHUNGSZENTREN EV, Germany THE WELLCOME TRUST LIMITED, United Kingdom THE ICELANDIC CENTRE FOR RESEARCH, Iceland THE CZECH SCIENCE FOUNDATION, Czech Republic CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, Spain BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL, United Kingdom |
