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 Sharing life science infrastructures and skills to benefit the Atlantic Area biotechnology sector
ShareBiotech objectives
- Strengthen the biotechnology sector within the Atlantic Area while maximising the benefits of research infrastructures
- Improve the service offer of technological core facilities and facilitate access to these core facilities for researchers and companies
- Set up a transnational network of technological core facilities and increase technology transfer between the various fields (human health, nutrition, agriculture/food-processing, cosmetics, marine biology, environment, etc.)
- Work out a concerted response to any technological need relative to a R&D project
ShareBiotech identity card
- Project built up by Biogenouest and managed by Bretagne Innovation and CRITT Santé Bretagne
- A consortium of 10 partners from 4 Member States, and associated actors in Scotland
- A project spread over 3 years (2010 - 2012) with a total budget of 2.7 M€
- Project co-financed with the support of the European Union ERDF – Atlantic Area Programme (http://atlanticarea.inescporto.pt).
Main actions
- Design an action plan aimed at answering both academic and industrial needs while improving the offer of technology and skills (starting February 2010)
- Professionalize the core facilities’ service offer and enhance their specificities (starting October 2010)
- Foster interdisciplinarity as well as scientific and technological skill exchange: meetings, colloquia, mobility and education plan, technology transfer, etc. (starting March 2010)
- Build up on actions to establish future cooperations and propose recommendations on equipment or organisations to be set up according to the identified needs (starting October 2011)
Contacts :
ShareBiotech Coordinators :
Technical contact : Céline Quéron - CRITT Santé Bretagne - www.critt-sante.fr, celine.queron@biogenouest.org. Tel. (+33) 2 23 23 33 42
Administrative, financial and communication contact : Claire Bontemps - Bretagne Innovation - www.bretagne-innovation.fr, cbontemps@bretagne-innnovation.fr. Tel. (+33) 2 99 67 42 04
ShareBiotech partners in regions :
- Université de Nantes (France). Contact : cellule.europe@univ-nantes.fr, Website : www.univ-nantes.fr
- Biocant (Portugal). Contact : mbrandao@biocant.pt,Website : www.biocant.pt
- Athlone institute of technology (Ireland). Contact : ptomkins@ait.ie, www.ait.ie
- University College Cork (Ireland). Contact : a.dobson@ucc.ie, Website : www.ucc.ie
- Gobierno de Navarra, Dpt innovación, direcccion general de Empresa (Spain), Contact : sesmavea@navarra.es, Website : www.navarra.es
- Universidade do Algarve, UALG (Portugal). Contact : jamaro@ual.pt, Website : www.ualg.pt
- Centro de ciencias do mar do Algarve, CCMAR (Portugal). Contact : dpower@ualg.pt, Website : www.ccmar.ualg.pt
- Centro interdisciplinar de investigação marinha e ambiental, CIIMAR (Portugal). Contact : aantunes@ncifcrf.gov, Website : www.ciimar.up.pt
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