Adelino Canário, director of the Center for Marine Sciences (CCMAR) at the University of Algarve (UAlg), is the vice-president of the “European Marine Biological Resource Center” (EMBRC-ERIC), a new European research infrastructure in marine sciences.
The European Marine Biological Resource Center (EMBRC-ERIC) was officially launched on June 19, in Paris.
This European infrastructure provides the academic community and companies with a single point of access to a vast portfolio of services, resources and knowledge that the best marine research centers in Europe offer. EMBRC-ERIC thus opens up new opportunities for marine research and enhances the use of scientific resources at European level.
For Adelino Canário, newly appointed European Vice-President of the EMBRC-ERIC, “the advantages of this infrastructure for Portugal are clear, as it not only allows our research centers to be able to monetize the scientific resources they have by providing services to other European researchers, how it allows Portuguese scientists to benefit from resources that they cannot find in Portugal, which enhances their research capacity».
The Portuguese node of EMBRC is coordinated by the Center for Marine Sciences (CCMAR), at the University of Algarve, and it also includes the IMAR center at the University of the Azores, the CIIMAR in Porto and the ACOI at the University of Coimbra.
In addition to Portugal, the EMBRC-ERIC has eight other founding countries: Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Israel, Norway and the United Kingdom.
According to David Paterson, President of EMBRC-ERIC, "only through a truly cooperative effort between European Union and associated countries will the EMBRC-ERIC's ambitions to advance the frontier of knowledge in marine biological and ecological sciences be achieved" .
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