Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

Collaborations with Major European Organizations

• ESFRI Euro-BioImaging initiative: serpico participates in the ESFRI Euro-BioImaging project, one of the four new biomedical science projects in the roadmap of the European Strategic Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). The mission of Euro-BioImaging is to provide access, service and training to state-of-the-art imaging technologies and foster the cooperation and networking at the national and European level including multidisciplinary scientists, industry regional, national and European authorities. (3-year Preparatory Phase / start: December 2010). serpico also participates in the French counterpart, the so-called “France-BioImaging” (FBI) network which gathers several outstanding cellular imaging centers (microscopy, spectroscopy, probe engineering and signal processing) as described in Section 8.2.3 .