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Project

EVAg

Title European Virus Archive goes global
Grant Agreement Number 653316
Funding Programmes H2020
Budget Total: €11,979,955.20, EC Contribution: €10,792,868.00
Dates 01/04/2015 - 31/03/2019
Project URL http://www.european-virus-archive.com/
Scientific Domain Biological and Medical Sciences
Type Of Project RIA
Abstract The overall objective will be to create and mobilise an International network of high calibre centres around a strong European group of institutes selected for their appropriate expertises, to collect, amplify, characterise, standardise, authenticate, distribute and track, mammalian and other exotic viruses. The network of EVAg laboratories including 25 institutions represents an extensive range of virological disciplines. The architecture of the consortium is based on the association of capacities accessible to the partners but also to any end-users through the EVAg web-based catalogue. This concept has been elaborated and tested for its efficiency during the successful EVA project (FP7). The project will integrate more facilities dedicated to high risk pathogen (HRP) manipulation (1 in EVA, 13 in EVAg) The access to products derived from those HRP will be enhanced and for instance the production of diagnostic reagents will be facilitated. The new project will also provide access to high containment biosafety facilities to carry out in vivo studies of infectious disease using natural or models hosts, to look at prophylactic or therapeutic control measures and to develop materials for the evaluation of diagnostic tests, meaning an extensive capacity to service and to training. EVAg will also link up with other network-based virus-associated programmes that exist globally. However, looking further ahead, EVAg is conceived ultimately to be an open entity aiming at developing synergies and complementarity capabilities in such a way as to offer an improved access to researchers. This project will generate the largest collection of mammalian viruses in the world and move beyond the current state-of-the-art to provide an increasingly valuable resource and service to the world’s scientific community, including government health departments, higher education institutes, industry and, through information systems, the general public.
Coordinator
(Organisation name and Country, EC contribution to budget) 		UNIVERSITE D'AIX MARSEILLE, France, (€2,968,926.00)
Partners
(Organisation name and Country, EC contribution to budget) 		UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI, Slovenia, (€534,175.00)
UNIVERSITAET BASEL, Switzerland, (€0.00)
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS, United Kingdom, (€807,276.00)
INSTITUT PASTEUR, France, (€625,453.75)
THE INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH, United Kingdom, (€972,803.00)
FRIEDRICH LOEFFLER INSTITUT - BUNDESFORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER TIERGESUNDHEIT, Germany, (€605,997.00)
ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, (€539,345.00)
COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, Australia, (€50,000.00)
ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS LEIDEN - LEIDS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM, Netherlands, (€296,372.50)
ISTITUTO NAZIONALE MALATTIE INFETTIVE L.SPALLANZANI - IRCCS, Italy, (€476,403.75)
ROBERT KOCH-INSTITUT, Germany, (€434,687.50)
BERNHARD-NOCHT-INSTITUT FUER TROPENMEDIZIN, Germany, (€670,214.75)
UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM BONN, Germany, (€603,250.00)
VIROLOGICKY USTAV SLOVENSKEJ AKADEMIE VIED, Slovakia, (€313,500.00)
Department of Health, United Kingdom, (€373,523.75)
RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF VACCINES AND SERA II MECHNIKOV, Russian Federation, (€15,100.00)
WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, China, (€73,375.00)
FEDERAL STATE BUDGETARY SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION CHUMAKOV INSTITUTE OF POLIOMYELITIS AND VIRAL ENCEPHALITIDES, Russian Federation, (€15,100.00)
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (ARC), South Africa, (€145,440.00)
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFLUENZA OF THE MINISTRY OF HEALTHCARE AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, Russian Federation, (€50,000.00)
NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICES, South Africa, (€40,750.00)