EMBRC

GENERAL DESCRIPTION The Preparatory Phase for a pan-European MARINE BIOLOGICAL RESOURCE CENTRE(EMBRC) research Infrastructure. This application focuses on the technical, legal, governance, and financial issues to prepare a memorandum of understanding to begin to construct EMBRC. It will build on existing Marine Biological Institutes and Research Centres which will be complemented with innovative components and properly embedded into European scientific, Ethics, legal and societal frameworks.The preparative phase of EMBRC will provide the proof of concepts for a key resource to increase excellence and efficacy in Marine Biological Research and secure competitiveness of European research and industry in a global context. This distributed pan-European infrastructure will provide access to model marine organisms and related genomic resources. It will promote access for both research and Science Education. The main costal marine laboratories will be embedded within this RI to provide access to model marine organisms and their ecosystems together with modern technology and 'omic' platforms. RRI FOCUS Ranking of the most relevant RRI dimensions, where 6 is the most relevant to the project •Public engagement •Gender equality •Science education •Open access •Ethics •Governance PROJECT OUTCOMES RELATED TO RRI Which are the most relevant project outcomes (roadmaps, guidelines, documents, reports, articles, videos etc) in terms of RRI? LESSONS LEARNED Main policy briefs produced by the project and related URL Policy brief 1 Policy brief 2 Policy brief 3 Policy brief 4 Policy brief 5

EMBRC Duration 2011-2014 Project coordinator managementmarina@gmail.com Fundings framework FP Website http://www.embrc.eu/ Marine Region Focus Value not available Marine Related Issues Marine biotech Sectors Education and Research Themes Technology and innovation