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VetBioNet

VetBioNet : Veterinary Biocontained facility Network for excellence in animal infectiology research and experimentation

Objectives

The VetBioNet (Veterinary Biocontained research facility Network) project involves the contribution of two INRA research units and three INRA platforms1 and constitutes an international network of 30 partners from the academic and private sector. The project’s principal objectives are to reinforce the cooperation between Europe’s leading high-containment research infrastructures, to provide access to the high-end research facilities of the network, and to further improve the technical standard of the services provided.
VetBioNet is funded by the EC Horizon 2020 INFRAIA program allocating 10 Mio € for a project duration of 5 years (2017-21). This EC funding instrument specifically supports advanced infrastructure communities. The VetBioNet network has attained an advanced degree of cooperation through the implementation of the previous infrastructure project NADIR (Network for Animal Diseases and Infectiology Research, 2009-2013)2 which has already assembled 12 of the present consortium members.

The integrating activities of the VetBioNet infrastructure project are threefold:
- Joint Research Activities (JRAs) of the project partners related to animal infectious diseases and their prevention and control
- Networking Activities (NAs) to foster the cooperation between project partners and to forge cooperative relationships with other European or international research initiatives, industrial stakeholders, international organizations and policy makers.
- Transnational Access Activities (TNAs) – that is to say, providing access to the high-containment facilities and technical resources of the consortium. This free-of-charge access will be provided to researchers or enterprises proposing a sound project related to specific epizootic and zoonotic diseases.

EC funding : 10 000 000 €

Duration : 5 years

Start : 1st March 2017

Coordinators : Frédéric Lantier - frederic.lantier@inra.fr and Sascha Trapp, sascha.trapp@inra.fr

Project manager : Joselle Latchoumia – joselle.latchoumia@inra.fr

Website : www.vetbionet.eu/