The European gateway www.toolsofscience.eu is now launched with entries from 13 bioregions across Europe. The bioregions have collected information on the best facilities and service companies from their regions in a searchable database. National and regional financing opportunities to support R&D projects of life science companies are also featured, as well as guidelines and useful links to collaboration tools.
Tools of Science provides an easy way to identify the right partner for scientific services. The online tool today displays around 200 entries, and is currently expanding with a number of bioregions on the waiting list. Researchers and entrepreneurs can navigate in the database structure using keywords or categories such as region, development phase or specific field of science.
"Reaching milestones in the development of young technologies strongly depend on finding the right service provider who meets the highly specialized requirements of biotech SMEs" says Horst Domdey, CEO of BioM Biotech Cluster Development in Munich.
There are also guidelines and templates for facility sharing and information on funding opportunities to be downloaded from the gateway. The "Guidelines to shared facilities" result from many years of experience within the clusters and provide advice to academic groups wishing to set up new shared facilities. The "Template for interregional collaboration" displays information and advice about diverse aspects of research project management and partner match-making.
Please contact Dr. Teresa Soop, teresa.soop@ssci.se for more information.
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