Cooperations
Do you know…
- … the scientists in CEITEC will be researching what happens in the brain when a human has realized that they have made a mistake?
- … there will be nearly 800 scientists in CEITEC?
- … in CEITEC we will be researching how the brain works and why some people are motivated and others are not?
- … thanks to CEITEC most of the diagnostic methods will be cheaper, faster and more comfortable for the patients?
- … 51 research teams will be created in CEITEC?
- … there will be 7 research programmes in CEITEC?
- … there will be more than 1,000 modern instruments in CEITEC?
- … more than 31,000 m2 of new infrastructure will be built in CEITEC?
- … more than 1,500 students will use the CEITEC infrastructure per year?
- … there will be 10 shared laboratories created in CEITEC?
- … CEITEC has 6 partners?
- … work will be carried out on self-cleaning surfaces in CEITEC?
- … CEITEC will co-operate closely with the industrial sector?
- … there will also be international scientists working in CEITEC?
- … CEITEC will support the international mobility of scientists?
- … the scientists in CEITEC are developing a subdermal chip which will analyse some life functions and will inform doctors from a distance?
- … the scientists in CEITEC are working on the development of a device which will enable physiotherapy from a distance?
- … the scientists at CEITEC are working on the development of biosensors?
- … CEITEC will be created in the south-Moravian city of Brno?
Synbiosis Project
CEITEC Life Sciences on behalf of Masaryk University participates in the Poject SynBIOsis – Maximizing Synergies for Central European Biotech Infrastructures, which has been funded under the EU 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development and became the first ever project in the field of Regions of Knowledge, which is coordinated from the Czech Republic. The project SynBIOsis aims at setting up a model for collaboration between the academic and commercial spheres in order to foster the knowledge and technology transfer and research results exploitation.
A component of the Project is transfer of experience from developed European bio-regions, in which cutting-edge research infrastructures comprise a substantial part of knowledge, innovation and economic development. The partner region in SynBIOsis is the North Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. In the Project’s first analytical phase the partners will conduct a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the current state, and the actual transfer of knowledge and experience will follow. The closing phase is creation of a Joint Action Plan which, on the basis of the existing outputs of the project, will suggest directions for further collaboration of the two regions and sources for its financing. The local governments of the partner regions will also be involved in preparing the Action Plan.
The largest benefit for the South Moravian Region will be enlightenment from the experience of the European top class research infrastructures with the knowledge transfer to the application sphere.
The Project SynBIOsis involves 7 partners both from South Moravia and Northern Italy. South Moravian partners are Masaryk University, the association of companies CEITEC Cluster – bioinformatics, and the Project Coordinator is The South Moravian Innovation Center. Italian partners are Area Science Park Trieste, synchrotron ELETTRA, CBM – Cluster in Molecular Biomedicine, and the innovative company APE Research.
The Project earned a grant of 1 million EUR from the FP7 Regions of Knowledge priority. The extent of the Project is Europe-wide, which anticipates on various levels collaboration with other developed European bio-regions, e.g. Cambridge, England; Health Valley East Netherlands; Vienna, Austria; Genopole Biopark, France; or Heidelberg Biotech cluster, Germany. The project started in September 2009 and will last for 36 months.