Core Facilities
The Core Facilities Working group was established in 2015 to create a forum for discussion of core facility-specific challenges.
Current focus is on the following:
- Sharing best practices and expertise in core facility management
- Comparing indicators across institutes: financial, personnel, operations, research, training, and performance evaluation
- Defining opportunities and procedures for capacity sharing between EU-LIFE institutes
- Collaboration on the level of training courses, grant applications, etc…
- Data management issues (together with IT Working Group)
- Participation in a dialogue to foster European funding opportunities for core facilities and core facility networks
- Policy work on visibility of core facilities and small-medium scale research infrastructures
Projects
Publications
- Unlocking success: The power of change management in core facilities (EMBO reports)
- Core Facility Lifecycle: General principles and recommendations
- Overview of EU-LIFE Core Facilities Benchmarking Survey 2021
- Acknowledging and citing core facilities (EMBO reports)
Latest events
- EU-LIFE TechWatch series - Showcasing new cytometry technologies
- EU-LIFE TechWatch series - Molecular biophysics in EU-LIFE Core Facilities
- EU-LIFE TechWatch series - CRISPR/Cas9 methodology
- EU-LIFE Core Facilities Benchmarking Report Exchange Session
- EU-LIFE TechWatch series - ZEISS Visions in Microscopy driven by innovation
- EU-LIFE TechWatch series - Olink Proteomics

Members
Saskia Lippens, VIB, Co-Chair
Pirkko Mattila, FIMM, Co-Chair
Danielle Hoyle, Babraham, Co-Chair
Mónica Morales, CRG
Kateřina Hošková, CEITEC
Miryam Alcalay, IEO
Geert Van Minnebruggen, VIB
Bernhard Korn, FMI
Marta Monteiro, GIMM
Tatiana Malherbe, Curie
Theodoros Kosteas, IMBB-FORTH
Vasiliki Theodorou, IMBB-FORTH
Georgios Gouridis, IMBB-FORTH
Matthieu Lavigne, IMBB-FORTH
Krzysztof Skowronek, IIMCB
Olga Gewartowska, IIMCB
Jutta Steinkoetter, MDC
Sonja Hansen, MDC
Michael Schuster, CeMM
Marc Wiedner, CeMM
Henri van Luenen, NKI
Rajesh Somasundaram, BRIC