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

• Core Facilities Benchmarking

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