The first submission round of the CORBEL 2nd Open Call for research projects closed on April 30, 2018. The evaluation process has started and applicants will be notified about the outcome of the evaluation soon.

As the Open Call has a rolling deadline collecting applications at the 1st of every 2nd month, researchers are now encouraged to submit their proposals during the second submission round.

Please be aware that all interested researchers are required to talk about potential applications with the contact person(s) at the prospective service providers before submitting their project proposal.

The second submission round will close on 30 June, 2018.

For more information visit the Open Call webpages.

On 26 March CORBEL launched its 2nd Open Call for research projects.

This call offers all academic and industrial scientists in Europe the unique chance to accelerate their research by using state-of-the-art technologies and services from more than 20 facilities from 10 different research infrastructures.

The first submission round will close on 30 April, 2018.

For more information visit the Open Call webpages.

The following calls for biological/medical research projects are announced/open:

• European Plant Phenotyping Network 2020 - 2nd Call for Application for Transnational Access
  EPPN2020 provides researchers belonging to academic and industry groups  access to its 31 phenotyping facilities located all over Europe.
  -> for details visit the EPPN2020 website
  -> deadline for proposals: June 29, 2018

When applying to one of the calls above, don't forget to utilise the services (samples, methodologies, technologies, expertise) offered by the research infrastructures!
The catalogue of services can be found here.

Scientists at the Helmholtz Center Munich (HMGU) have identified a network of genes that could play a vital role in the development of metabolic diseases such as diabetes. The study for which INFRAFRONTIER provided the research infrastructure marks a substantial progress in the fight against diabetes: In order to identify candidate genes for the wide spread metabolic disease, the research team of the German Mouse Clinic (GMC) examined `knockout mice´ – each lacking a specific gene – for metabolic dysfunction.

As a follow-up to the consensus paper published end of 2017, ECRIN-ERIC released their publication on Classification of processes involved in sharing individual participant data from clinical trials.
It is accessible from here.

CORBEL WP3, lead by ECRIN-ERIC, published a consensus paper on data sharing of data from clinical trials.

The report "IP issues in Open Science, pre-competitive Research and Open Innovation", produced by the CORBEL innovation specialists (CORBEL WP8), is now online available.

The CORBEL Catalogue of Services offers an overview on what kind of services (access to samples and technologies, data, tools, expertise etc.) can be accessed from the participating research infrastructures. Researchers from academia, clinics and industry working on a complex project often do not have access at their home institution to the cutting-edge technologies they would need to boost their research – especially these researchers can benefit from utilising a research infrastructure.