Projects
Final EOSC-Life Annual General Meeting
BBMRI-ERIC has made significant contributions to the EOSC-Life project over the past three years. Now, during the Final AGM (2 days), the EOSC-Life consortium wil ...read more
Latin America – Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructures
The RI-VIS Latin America – Europe Symposium will be held between Tuesday, June 15th and Thursday, June 17th 2021, as a virtual event. This event is organise ...read more
2nd ICPerMed Conference ‘Personalised Medicine – From Vision to Practice’
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions, ICPerMed decided to go virtual and move the event to an online platform. Attendees will have access to all i ...read more
EUCANCan Webinar: International Data Sharing of Cancer Genomic Data
Join the free webinar hosted by the free EUCANcan Consortium (an EU H2020-funded project on cancer data sharing) webinar titled International Data Sharing of Canc ...read more
International Summer School on Rare Disease Registries and FAIRification of Data
In order to ensure the correct progress of the planned tasks of EJP RD, ISS ensures that the international course “ International Summer School on Rare Disease ...read more
CORBEL Webinar: Supporting European Research: Communicating the Value of Life Science RIs in Times of Crisis and Beyond
CORBEL presents its final webinar, this time with guest speaker Bogi Eliasen from the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS). Prior to the webinar, CIFS ...read more
Graz Biomedical Research Workshop
Graz Biomedical Research Workshop Dates: May 11-15, 2020 Location: Online workshop Note: Module 1 (May 11 – May 13) and Module 2 (May 13 – May 15) can be book ...read more
COST Clinimark Training School
The COST Clinimark Training Workshop is taking place from 23-27 September 2019 at the Spetses Hotel, Greece! The quest for novel biomarkers is a popular resear ...read more
Clinimark
“Translating biomarker candidates from discovery to the clinic remains a challenge. This second symposium organised by the Clinimark project will examine ho ...read more
Save the date: SPIDIA4P event
Save the date: On the 5th March 2019, the SPIDIA4P project consortium will organise an event at the European Parliament in Brussels. Hosted by MEP Gesine Meissner ...read more
Biobanking Workshop in Latin America
As part of our efforts to support biobanking in different regions of the world, we are organising a biobanking workshop in Rio de Janeiro in early 2019. We believ ...read more
Data Management in Clinical Research
CORBEL, ECRIN an F-CRIN are organising a training course on Data Management in Clinical Research, taking place on 15 November 2018 in Paris. The course is designe ...read more
CORBEL Webinar: West-Life
Title: West-Life: Lessons learnt from developing a virtual research environment Speaker: Chris Morris (Daresbury Laboratory) Date: October 23, 2018 Time: 15:30 CE ...read more
CORBEL train-the-trainer workshop & hackathon
This event combines two separate events, a 2-day train-the-trainer workshop and a 1-day course development hackathon. You can choose to attend one or both events, ...read more
CORBEL Webinar
Title: Quality Management in Distributed Research Infrastructures Speaker: Dr. Michael Raess (INFRAFRONTIER) Date: May 22, 2018 Time: 15:30 CEST Quality Managemen ...read more
CORBEL webinar
Speaker: Dr. Mikael Linden (ELIXIR Finland), Kostas Koumantaros (GRNET) Summary: CORBEL WP5 has specified Life Science AAI, a common service for authentic ...read more
CORBEL webinar
Speakers: Christian Ohmann, Rita Banzi, Steve Canham (ECRIN-ERIC) Summary: Transparency and access to research data is a key feature of modern research policy, im ...read more
CORBEL webinar: Lightweight Service Management for RIs
Speaker: Sy Holsinger (EGI Foundation) Summary: To meet customer needs and provide valuable services, it is important to maintain a high quality of service, which ...read more
CORBEL webinar: access management using ARIA
Speaker: Fiona Sanderson (Instruct-ERIC) ARIA provides a wide range of web-based tools for a huge number of organisations worldwide. ARIA cloud services also are ...read more
Next CORBEL webinar on User Experience Design scheduled for June 27th
Interested in learning how User Experience (UX) design can help you meet your goals? What are the quick wins for knowing your users, designing with your team and ...read more
How European Biological and Medical Sciences Research Infrastructures Boost Innovation by Open Access
This meeting will explore how the 11 biological and medical sciences research infrastructures (BMS RIs) in Europe can stimulate innovation by providing access to ...read more
First CORBEL webinar on research marketing set to take place on May 29
CORBEL is set to launch a new series of webinars that will provide a platform for biological and medical research infrastructures to share their experiences and p ...read more
Training opportunities for rare disease scientists at the Outreach Day in Berlin
As part of the joint RD-Connect, NeurOmics and EURenOmics annual meeting in Berlin (1-5th of May 2017) RD-Connect will provide a number of training opportunities ...read more
Round table on BBMRI-ERIC’s contribution to health research capacity building in Africa
In collaboration with B3Africa, BBMRI-ERIC will organise a roundtable in Brussels on 5th April 2017 to explore how to develop health research collaboration with ...read more
Third B3Africa Jamboree
The Third B3Africa Jamboree, will again be a face to face meeting of all developers. It will be held in Austria and organised by MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITÄT GRAZ. ...read more
B3Africa Use Case Site Visit & Training No.1
In December 2016, the first B3Africa use case site visit and training will be organised in South Africa. This training event will include: Tool-specific “hands ...read more
B3Africa Webinar 2
Webinar 2 on ELSI, led by Jane Reichel and Santa Slokenberga of Uppsala Universitet, Sweden Main topics: – Introduction to Ethical, Legal and Social ...read more
CORBEL 1ST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM)
Tuesday 18 – Wednesday 19 October 2016 Start 12:00 – End 12:15 Location: Austria Trend Hotel Europa Graz http://www.austria-trend.at/en/hotels/europa- ...read more
B3Africa Webinar 1
B3Africa Work Package 5 (WP5) launched the Webinar series with the first session on Thursday 29 September, 2016, targeted particularly at IT Focal Points. This ...read more
1ST WORKSHOP CORBEL “PATIENT-LEVEL DATA TASKFORCE”
Workshop of the “Multi-stakeholder taskforce on access to individual participant data (IPD) in clinical trials” The first workshop of the CORBEL “p ...read more
SPIDIA4P consortium meets in Luxembourg
On April 10th and 11th 2018, IBBL (Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg) hosted the SPIDIA4P consortium meeting at its new premises in Dudelange, Luxembourg. S ...read more
FULL PARTNER OF RD-CONNECT
BBMRI-ERIC is now an official partner of RD-Connect. RD-Connect is a unique global infrastructure project that links up databases, registries, biobanks and clini ...read more
B3AFRICA NEWSLETTER
Editorial by the Project Coordinator The rapidly evolving African biobanks are invaluable for biomedical research because the African population has the greatest ...read more
LAUNCH OF THE CORBEL INNOVATION OFFICE
We are pleased to announce the launch of the CORBEL Innovation Office, intended to provide advice and assistance to streamline research collaboration among Europe ...read more
B3AFRICA NEWSLETTER ISSUE 02/2016
To read the full version of the newest B3Africa newsletter, including updates from the B3Africa ELSI Workshop and the First B3Africa Technical Jamboree, please ...read more
CORBEL 1st Open Call for Research Projects
CORBEL (www.corbel-project.eu) seeks to harmonise access to European research infrastructures joining their various expertise across the range of life science dis ...read more
CORBEL launches 1st Open Call for research projects
CORBEL – Coordinated Research Infrastructures Building Enduring Life-science services – is an EC Horizon2020 project uniting 11 Biological and Medical Science ...read more
B3Africa Newsletter Issue No. 03/2016
In this third and latest issue issue of the B3Africa Newsletter, the project presents news from the first and second technical Jamborees with a video, updates fro ...read more
RItrain: Staff Exchange Programme Pilot winners identified
Part of WP5 is to develop and run staff exchanges between personnel from different RI. Staff exchanges will enable key personnel in research infrastructures to l ...read more
RItrain: Calls for Applications for Staff Exchange
The purpose of RItrain Staff Exchanges is for managerial staff from European Research Infrastructures to learn from managerial and leadership best practices in ar ...read more
January 26th, 2020
CETOCOEN EXCELLENCE Project Kicks Off in Brno
On January 15, 2020, the H2020 TEAMING “CETOCOEN Excellence” project was ceremonially launched in Brno, Czech Republic. BBMRI-ERIC is beneficiary of this proj ...read moreBBMRI-ERIC’s IT and Data Protection Manager Petr Holub is spearheading BBMRI’s involvement in the H2020 project. ...read more
CORBEL staff exchanges: Call for Hosts 2017
The purpose of CORBEL staff exchanges is for operational staff from the Research Infrastructures participating in CORBEL to develop operational expertise in four ...read more
BBMRI-LPC: THROUGH ACCESS TO SUCCESS
The European-wide, FP7-funded BBMRI-LPC project (Biobanking and Biomolecular Research Infrastructure ― Large Prospective Cohorts; GA no. 313010) brought togethe ...read more
EXECUTIVE MASTERS IN MANAGEMENT OF RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES
RItrain, the Research Infrastructure Training Programme, is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project aimed at improving and professionalising the training of managerial ...read more
The new B3Africa Newsletter is out
Issue No. 2017/02 of the B3Africa newsletter features a range of upcoming webinars, a new infographic explaining what the eB3Kit is, some information on conferenc ...read more
BBMRI-ERIC Round Table in Brussels on Biobanking Collaboration with Africa
A round table titled Biobanking collaboration with Africa: BBMRI-ERIC’s contribution to health research capacity building in Africa is taking place in Brussels ...read more
APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN!
Applications for the Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastructures are open now and can be submitted using the online form available here. Click her ...read more
New calls for RItrain Staff Exchanges
Applications for a new RItrain Staff Exchange hosted by EATRIS are now open. There are currently four different Staff Exchange opportunities: Governance, ...read more
CORBEL Staff Exchange: Call for Participants
The purpose of CORBEL Staff Exchanges is for operational staff from the Research Infrastructures (RIs) participating in CORBEL to develop operational expertise ...read more
First module of Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastructures successfully delivered
The Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastructures has been successfully launched, with the first module delivered between September 20 and 22. The c ...read more
New B3Africa Newsletter available
The latest issue of the B3Africa Newsletter features updates on current B3Africa activities and interesting reports on testing the eB3Kit in real-life settings. R ...read more
New RItrain surveys available
Two new surveys looking at training needs of managers of research infrastructures are now available. The results will be used for the purposes of the RItrain staf ...read more
CORBEL launches service catalogue
CORBEL, a H2020 cluster project uniting 13 European biological and medical research infrastructures, has launched its Catalogue of Services. CORBEL aims to create ...read more
Applications open for RItrain Staff Exchanges
The purpose of RItrain Knowledge / Staff Exchanges is for managerial staff from European research infrastructures to learn from managerial and leadership best pra ...read more
ID-EPTRI: New project set to launch in January 2018
ID-EPTRI (European Paediatric Translational Research Infrastructure), a project coordinated by CVBF and submitted within the INFRADEV-2016-2017 single-stage call ...read more
Open-source software for biobankers
Between 28 and 30 November 2017, BBMRI-ERIC, BBMRI.at and B3Africa co-organised a training workshop on open-source biobanking software in Lyon, France. Attracting ...read more
RItrain Staff Exchange
The purpose of RItrain Knowledge / Staff Exchanges is for managerial staff from European research infrastructures to learn from managerial and leadership best pra ...read more
SPIDIA4P newsletter out now
The first SPIDIA4P (Standardisation of generic Pre-analytical Procedures for In vitro DIAgnostics for Personalised Medicine) newsletter of this year has just beco ...read more
ID-EPTRI project kick-off
ID-EPTRI, a new project that aims at establishing a research infrastructure for the development of improved paediatric medicines, kicked off in Rome on the 15th a ...read more
CORBEL News Issue No. 6
Find out all the latest news on CORBEL, an H2020 cluster project uniting 13 European biological and medical research infrastructures. The current CORBEL newslett ...read more
Bio-informatics workshop
The Malta Biobank (BBMRI.mt / EuroMED) team organised a 4-day bio-informatics workshop from 15th to 18th January, hosting Heimo Müller from BBMRI-ERIC’s Commo ...read more
RItrain webinar series
Learn from experienced leaders in research infrastructures through our series of webinars. RItrain is developing a series of webinars featuring leading personn ...read more
Pre-application for EMMRI is open
Develop your skills for leading research infrastructures with a global impact. Apply now for EMMRI – the Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastruct ...read more
CliniMARK COST Action meeting in Cascais, Portugal
The Human Genetics Department of the National Health Institute Doutor Ricardo Jorge organised a conference on good biomarker practice in Cascais, Portugal, from ...read more
April 19th, 2018
CORBEL: 2nd Open Call for Research Projects
BBMRI-ERIC is excited to be participating in the CORBEL 2nd Open Call for research projects. CORBEL is looking for innovative research projects at the interface b ...read more
Apply now for the MBA in Research Infrastructure Management
Develop your skills for leading research infrastructures with a global impact. Apply now for EMMRI – the Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastruct ...read more
CORBEL 2nd Open Call for research projects
CORBEL – Coordinated Research Infrastructures Building Enduring Life-science services – is a Horizon2020 project uniting 13 European Biological and Medical Sc ...read more
PhenoMeNal team releases “Dalcotidine”
The PhenoMeNal release team is happy to announce its 2018.08 release “Dalcotidine”. The release focuses on stability, the introduction of new tools and work ...read more
Join the RD-Connect Community
RD-Connect is an integrated platform connecting databases, registries, biobanks and clinical bioinformatics for rare disease research. It provides user-friendly t ...read more
Transferring biobank research data between the EU and African countries
Despite the fact that the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides ways to transfer data, it is difficult to find ways to share data between Eu ...read more
CORBEL 2nd Open Call
CORBEL – Coordinated Research Infrastructures Building Enduring Life-science services – is a Horizon2020 project uniting 13 European Biological and Medical ...read more
CORBEL Innovation Helpdesk
The CORBEL Innovation Helpdesk is available to assist the European Biological and Medical Research Infrastructures with collaboration with industry and technology ...read more
RItrain: from an EU project to an Executive Masters
Discover EMMRI and its Open Programme: The goal of RItrain, an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project, is to improve and professionalise training for research infrastruct ...read more
ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC project extended
Following a request from the project consortium, the European Commission recently decided to extend the duration of the ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC project for an additional ...read more
May 7th, 2019
Video: Discussing Standards with SPIDIA4P at the European Parliament
Can new international and European standards increase patients’ safety by reducing the negative impact of external factors on in vitro diagnostic test results, ...read more
May 29th, 2019
Handbook for Biomarkers and Precision Medicine Published
May 29, 2019 Edited by Claudio Carini, Mark Fidock and Alain van Gool, Handbook for Biomarkers and Precision Medicine was recently published by Taylor & Fran ...read more
June 18th, 2019
Launch of ConcePTION, an EU Project Setting Standards for Research on Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women
June 6, 2019 ConcePTION: ‘Building a pan-European ecosystem for generating, monitoring, and providing robust information on medication safety in pregnancy and b ...read more
June 28th, 2019
IVDR and Pre-Analytical Standards: Background and Review Published by SPIDIA4P Partners
June 27, 2019 The September issue of the journal New Biotechnology contains a review written by partners of the SPIDIA4P Consortium, of which BBMRI-ERIC is pro ...read more
November 3rd, 2021
New European initiative will build a collaborative platform for data and sample sharing, to accelerate the discovery and validation of biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases
The European Platform for Neurodegenerative Diseases (EPND) integrates existing initiatives to build, grow, and deliver a scalable and self-sustainable platform ...read more
March 8th, 2020
First ERIC Forum Meeting in Brussels
The first ERIC Forum meeting of 2020 was held in Brussels on 5th and 6th February 2020. It brought together more than 23 different ERICs and ERICs-to-be, as well ...read more
October 7th, 2020
CY-Biobank goes mobile, visiting the Cyprus mountains for donations
-Biobank goes mobile, visiting the Cyprus mountains for donations ….and we are back! The weeks leading up to the summer break in August and the beginning of the ...read more
September 16th, 2020
CY-Biobank launches a new user-friendly website and announces new vacancies
Cyprus-based Center of Excellence (CoE thereafter) CY-Biobank is in the pleasant position to announce the launch of its brand new, user-friendly website! The ne ...read more
EuCanImage will launch in October 2020 with BBMRI-ERIC on board
EuCanImage: A new large-scale international project funded by the European Commission to build a secure and federated imaging platform for next-generation artific ...read more
June 10th, 2020
EASI-Genomics Extraordinary COVID-19 related Call
Timeline: Call open: 18.05.2020 14:00 CEST Proposal submission deadlines: 30.06.2020 20:00 CEST Notification to applicants: at the latest by 15.07.2020 Start of p ...read more
August 13th, 2020
VIDEO: Accelerate your COVID-19 research with European Life Science Research Infrastructures
Now, more than ever, biomedical research needs to be done with speed, efficiency, and high-quality standards in order to help patients effectively fight diseases ...read more
April 16th, 2021
Study on Covid-19 antibodies introduces biobank.cy to a wider audience
Greetings from a blossoming Cyprus, as the sunshine returns to signal the beginning of the spring season! Despite the Covid-19 restrictions of December-March, our ...read more
December 9th, 2020
The Cyprus Center of Excellence in Biobanking and Biomedical Research launches joint research study on Covid-19 antibodies
As we approach the end of 2020, we can’t wait to share with you some exciting new developments regarding our Center of Excellence. First off, September 30th mar ...read more
October 12th, 2020
Animation released on ELSI Services for Life Science Research Infrastructures
An animation commissioned by BBMRI-ERIC within the H2020 project CORBEL shows how Life Science Research Infrastructures can help researchers with ethical, legal a ...read more
December 15th, 2020
A fruitful year for EDIReX, the EurOPDX Research Infrastructure
The new EurOPDX Research Infrastructure (RI) aims at improving cancer drug development success rates through the enablement of high-quality preclinical research u ...read more
February 1st, 2021
The Cyprus Center of Excellence in Biobanking and Biomedical Research carries its study on Covid-19 antibodies to Limassol
As the dawn sets for 2021, our CoE team of staff has already started gearing up for engaging in new exciting endeavors that are encompassing more public campaigns ...read more
December 10th, 2020
ConcePTION: Creating Knowledge for Women
“Pregnant and breastfeeding women have long been overlooked in the medical research. Today, only about 5% of medications have adequate safety information on use ...read more
August 31st, 2021
BBMRI-ERIC and its Stakeholder Forum Patient Pillar launch Pediatric Biobanking Initiative
BBMRI-ERIC and the Stakeholder Forum Patient Pillar are calling on pediatric & RD communities to engage in a network tackling pediatric biobanking and its et ...read more
March 8th, 2022
EHDS2 Pilot – A European Consortium Pilot project, candidate for the future European Health Data Space
The EHDS2 Pilot consortium aims to be selected to build and test a first version of the European Health Data Space for the secondary use of health data. Sharing d ...read more
June 24th, 2021
BBMRI-ERIC and ESBB hold biobanking workshop for Latin American audience
Within the RI-VIS Latin American-Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructures, BBMRI and ESBB held a joint workshop titled “Prerequisites for biobanking collabo ...read more
June 24th, 2022
BBMRI.cz: Hands-on training of ARICE project in Pilsen, Czech Republic
Within the ARICE project (Twinning for the Armenian Research Infrastructure on Cancer Research, twinning project of Horizon 2020, www.arice.am) project partners h ...read more
September 27th, 2021
BBMRI contributes to ConcePTION: Building a European Breast Milk Collection
Short- and long-term benefits of breastfeeding to both mothers and infants have been well demonstrated. However, robust clinical lactation studies are rare and ex ...read more
October 12th, 2021
EU-funded SPIDIA4P project wins CEN/CENELEC Standards + Innovation Award
The 2021 edition of the CEN and CENELEC Standards+Innovation Awards was presented on Tuesday 5 October 2021 to celebrate and acknowledge the important contribut ...read more
October 21st, 2021
BBMRI-ERIC receives two new grants for coronavirus initiatives
October 21, 2020 In summer 2021, BBMRI-ERIC was named a beneficiary of two newly awarded grants from the EU Commission addressing COVID-19 and its variants. ...read more
May 2nd, 2022
ConcePTION – Webinar on European Breast Milk Collection: Supporting research on medicine safety in breastfeeding – 24 May 2022
Registration for the webinar that IMI-ConcePTION is organising on Tuesday 24 May from 14:00 to 15:00CEST is now open. To provide evidence for how a medicine trans ...read more
March 16th, 2023
The canSERV project seeks Personalised Oncology and Molecular Tumour Board experts for European networks
The EU cluster project canSERV is inviting anyone involved in a Molecular Tumour Board (MTB) – e.g., physicians, scientists, patient representatives, ethicists ...read more
February 13th, 2024
EvolveBBMRI project kicks off in Vienna
Accelerating datafication of biobanking, greening of facilities and an integrated approach to “One Health”. The EvolveBBMRI project, coordinated by the Bio ...read more
The BBMRI-ERIC Quality Management service is co-funded within ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC, a project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 676550.
The BBMRI-ERIC Quality Management service is co-funded within SPIDIA4P, a project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 733112.
