EMBRC Norway
Norway has become a full member of the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC), the European Research Infrastructure for marine biological research
Membership of EMBRC-Norway has been possible thanks to a grant from the Research Council of Norway in 2017, which was a "quality stamp" required to become member of this prestigious research infrastructure network.
The leader of EMBRC-Norway professor Arild Folkvord, Department of Biosciences at UiB, explains it this way:
- The membership means that we will be able to offer access to research facilities and services in Norway while our own scientists will gain, in return, access to a number of European facilities. This opens for numerous of opportunities for both use state-of-the-art installations and services and promote scientific collaboration among our European colleagues. Norway, and Bergen in particular, are too small to have cutting-edge expertise in all fields.
National coordinator: UiB
Partners: Institute of Marine Research, University of Oslo, University of Tromsø, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norwegian institute of water research , and Nofima
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About EMBRC
EMBRC is a global reference Research Infrastructure responding to the societal Grand Challenges through advanced marine biology and ecology research.
The EMBRC-European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) is a pan-European Research Infrastructure for marine biology and ecology research. With its services, it aims to answer fundamental questions regarding the:
- health of ocean ecosystems in a changing environment
- enable new technologies to further our investigation capabilities
- support life-science breakthrough discoveries with the use of marine biological models
- continue long-term marine monitoring efforts.
EMBRC-ERIC is a driver in the development of blue biotechnologies, supporting both fundamental and applied research activities for sustainable solutions in the food, health and environmental sectors.
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