Research Resources – List

HPLC-UV/DAD (High-Performance Liquid Chromatography with UV-Diode Array Detector) is an advanced analytical technique used for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of organic compounds. It effectively separates semi-volatile and non-volatile substances, making it valuable across various fields, including chemistry, biology, and environmental analysis.

MALDI-HRMS (Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry) is a powerful analytical technique combining high-resolution mass spectrometry with a MALDI source. It enables the ionization of thermolabile molecules and facilitates the identification and quantification of organic compounds in complex matrices, making it ideal for various applications including mass imaging spectrometry (MSI).

Polarimetry is a technique used for the chemical analysis of organic compounds, particularly those that are optically active. By measuring the rotation of polarized light as it passes through a solution containing the solute, polarimetry provides qualitative and quantitative information about the substance being analyzed. The degree of rotation is influenced by the nature of the optically active species, the wavelength of light, and the length of the light path in the solution.

X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) is a powerful, non-destructive analytical technique that provides detailed information about the chemical and electronic properties of elements present in the surface layers of materials (20-30 Å). By analyzing the kinetic energies of photoelectrons emitted upon X-ray excitation, XPS allows for the identification and quantification of elements, as well as insights into their oxidation states and chemical environments. The ProvenX-NAP System enhances traditional XPS capabilities by enabling analysis under Near Ambient Pressure (NAP) conditions, facilitating the study of surfaces in more realistic environments.

X-ray diffraction (XRD) is a non-destructive analytical technique used to identify and quantify the crystalline phases in solid materials. By analyzing the diffractograms produced when X-rays interact with crystalline structures, researchers can derive critical information about the material’s structure, composition, and properties. The Bruker D8-DISCOVER and D8-ADVANCE systems enable advanced analyses, including temperature variations, residual stress measurements, and crystallinity assessments, making XRD essential in materials science, geology, and engineering.

Raman-FTIR microscopy combines Raman spectroscopy and infrared spectroscopy to provide detailed chemical and structural information about various materials without the need for sample preparation. Using the Renishaw InVia microscope, this technique enables the analysis of organic and inorganic substances, revealing spatial distributions, layer thicknesses, and crystallinity. It facilitates a broad range of applications, from pharmaceuticals to materials science, allowing for dynamic studies and the identification of unknown materials.

The Zetasizer Ultra from Malvern Panalytical is an advanced analytical instrument for measuring size distribution and zeta potential of suspended particles and large molecules in liquid media. This versatile equipment allows for precise analysis while varying temperature, facilitating reproducible results. It is essential for characterizing nanomaterials, formulating paints and coatings, and ensuring the stability and quality of food and pharmaceutical products.

The Agilent 5500 Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) is a versatile tool for creating three-dimensional topographic maps of materials at nanometric and atomic resolutions. It operates in both contact and tapping modes, allowing for comprehensive surface characterization of a wide range of materials, including insulators, conductors, and biological samples. The AFM can also perform various measurements such as electrical conductivity, magnetic domain mapping, and nanohardness, making it essential for research in materials science, biology, and nanotechnology.

The Nikon TE 2000E Scanning Confocal Microscope is an advanced inverted optical microscope designed to capture high-resolution three-dimensional images of biological and material samples using fluorescence signals. It eliminates out-of-focus fluorescence, enabling detailed optical sectioning and volumetric analysis. Equipped with multiple excitation lasers and detection channels, this microscope is essential for colocalization studies, live cell imaging, and materials science applications, providing insights into cellular dynamics, surface properties, and more.

The Scios 2 High-Resolution Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM-FIB) by FEI is a cutting-edge instrument that integrates a focused ion beam (FIB) and an electron beam to produce ultra-high resolution images and facilitate precise sample preparation for transmission electron microscopy. It features advanced detectors for compositional and material contrast, enabling in-depth morphological and chemical analysis of various materials, including magnetic and insulating specimens. With capabilities for 3D characterization and nanostructure fabrication, the Scios 2 is a versatile tool for nanotechnology research and material science applications.

The Quanta 600 Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM) from FEI enables high-resolution imaging (3 nm) and analysis of materials at the micro and nanometer scale. It allows for the study of both conductive and non-conductive specimens under various pressure conditions (10⁻⁵ to 26 mbar) and temperatures (-20 °C to 1500 °C). ESEM provides morphological and topographical observations, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) for elemental composition analysis, and dynamic experiments including humidity and temperature cycles, making it versatile for various applications in materials science, biomedical research, and quality control.

The JEOL F200 is a cutting-edge Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) designed for atomic resolution imaging and analysis across various fields, including materials science and life sciences. With advanced features such as a cold field emission gun, multiple detector configurations, and high-speed imaging capabilities, the F200 facilitates detailed characterization of nanostructured materials, 2D materials, and biological samples. Its flexible design supports in-situ experiments under varying conditions, making it a versatile tool for researchers.

Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) is a technique that uses an electron beam to study the morphology, crystallinity, and chemical composition of materials at the micro and nanoscale. It provides high-resolution images (0.2 nm) and allows detailed analysis of biological and nanostructured materials, such as proteins, nanoparticles, and thin films.

Transversal and multidisciplinary research institute whose mission is to address the complex issues of Sustainability, Climate Change and the Energy Transition by adding and integrating the various perspectives offered by our five areas of research: Basic Science of Climate Change; Environmental and Climate Economics: Territorial Analysis; Governance, Environmental and Energy Transition Law, Environmental and Climate Justice; Health risks, Analysis of Human Behavior, Impacts of pollution on people and Ecosystems solutions; Technological solutions, Development of Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Systems.

“The Centre for Studies on Social Conflicts (CECOS) is a research centre of the URV, formed by an interdisciplinary research team that brings together political scientists, sociologists, historians, jurists, anthropologists, communication specialists…
Its general objective is to build a space for critical reflection that promotes a multidisciplinary dialogue on the main social conflicts of the contemporary world, through scientific research activities, teaching and training activities and other technical and professional services of the university.
The specific objectives of CECOS are:
To generate knowledge from a multifaceted and globalising perspective on the processes of conflict in Spain and Europe, understanding ‘social conflict’ as the struggle of opposing interests motivated by social, political, economic, gender, ethnic, religious or other factors.
Contribute to the design of innovative, inclusive and responsible solutions in a context of unprecedented change and transformation (European identity crisis, professional structure, social impact of migratory flows, new paradigms of participation, equality, government transparency, democratic deficits, exclusion and poverty…).”

Centre for the prevention of risky virtual communication (the Centre) focuses on prevention of hazardous behaviour associated with the use of information and communication technologies by children, especially cyber bullying, cyber grooming, cyber stalking, hoax and spam, sexting, sextortion, social engineering methods, the issue of sharing of personal information through social networks (sharenting), internet frauds, dangers connected with using of artificial intelligence and other dangerous communication techniques. It implements an educational, research, prevention and intervention activities. Our Centre also focusing on positive using of modern IT technologies by children and adults.

The library of Roman, Medieval and Modern Law At the includes mainly volumes and periodicals of Romanesque area, coming not only from the Legal Institutes but also from the continuous purchases made by the Department over the years, as well as precious legacies and gifts (as in the case of the Arangio-Ruiz, Amirante, Mazzacane, Solazzi funds). It also includes works of History of Medieval and Modern Law, as well as a valuable and substantial collection of precious ancient volumes.

The library of constitutional law of the Department of Jurisprudence of the University of Naples Federico II houses volumes on the discipline of constitutional law, public law and comparative public law. You can find older volumes and treatises and more recent books. There are also scientific journal and review concerning constitutional and public law.

The apparatus allows to carry out resonant column and torsional shear tests on the same saturated soil specimen, applying effective isotropic confining stress ranging between 20 kPa and 800 kPa. The torque actuator allows to investigate the non linear mechanical behaviour of both soft and hard soils up to a maximum shear strain of about 0.5%. Shear modulus and damping ratio of soil can be measured at increasing shear strain. strain rate behaviour of soil can also be investigated.
Tests can be performed in undrained and drained conditions measuring pore pressure build-up and volume change respectively.

The large triaxial cell apparatus allows to perform tests on gravelly soils. The specimens with two dimensions (diameter=100 mm, height=200mm and diameter=200 mm, height=400mm) can be tested. Cyclic and monotonic tests can be performed.

The cyclic simple shear cell is a sophisticated apparatus, which can work with a double configuration: with rigid and flexible boundaries. In the latter, specimen is enclosed with an unreinforced latex membrane confined by pressurized water. A sophisticated control system allows to guarantee the K0-condition. This apparatus can perform cyclic and monotonic tests. It is particularly suited to evaluate the liquefaction resistance of soils.

The Study Centre on Reason of State and Democracy (www.ragionidistato.it) is endowed with its own library consisting of a specialised collection on the themes of Reason of State, Tacitism, Machiavellianism in the early modern age, and a selected fund dedicated to democratic political theory.

The ARS RoSA (Archivio della Ragion di Stato / Reason of State Archive) fund consists of more than 2000 volumes that are currently being catalogued and reordered, as well as an important collection of documentary and digital material expressly dedicated to the multiple historical and theoretical declinations of the theme of ‘ratio status’.

The Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE) coordinates and promotes the advancement of science in chemistry, physics, engineering, biology, and medicine with focus on:
• Catalysis
• Dynamic processes in solids
• Gas-phase synthesis of nanomaterials
• Magnetic materials
• Nanomaterials for health
• Functional materials for energy applications
CENIDE provides access to state-of-the-art infrastructure such as the unique research building NanoEnergieTechnikZentrum (NETZ) and the Interdisciplinary Center for Analytics on the Nanoscale (ICAN).

The Essen College of Gender Research (EKfG) at the University of Duisburg-Essen studies gender relations and analyses differences and similarities from an intersectional perspective. It considers biological features and their medical consequences, everyday reality, opportunities for social participation, and access to material and immaterial resources. Norms, values and rights are likewise included in the analysis in order to arrive at concrete findings for social practice.

The Core Facility Interdisciplinary Center for Analytics on the Nanoscale (ICAN) at the University of Duisburg-Essen combines machines, methods and scientific expertise for analysis on the nanometer scale. The core of ICAN is the microscopy center in the NanoEnergieTechnikZentrum (NETZ) in Duisburg. With brand new laboratories, specially designed for the newest machines, the microsopy center is perfectly equipped for the most sensitive measurements down the atomic length scale.

At NETZ, we seek to develop sustainable methods for each step in the process chain: from synthesizing and refining functional materials to integrating these materials into finished components and devices. In each step, we strive to analyze and understand the mechanisms that operate on every relevant scale. This expertise enables us to formulate rules that are as generally applicable as possible – and to tailor the outcome of an individual process to reach the desired goal.

Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research is a central research institute of the University Duisburg-Essen. Our research is focused on four broad themes that we explore in two subsequent periods. During the period 2021–2024, we will focus on legitimation and delegitimation in global cooperation and global cooperation and diverse conceptions of world order. During the period 2018–2021, we focused on pathways and mechanisms of global cooperation and global cooperation and polycentric governance.

The Center for Molecular Biosciences (CMBI) at the University of Innsbruck (Forschungsschwerpunkt für Molekulare Biowissenschaften) is an integrative and multidisciplinary research and graduate teaching institution, whose mission it is, to advance knowledge on the structure, function, and interaction of biological macromolecules, and of simple compounds, relevant for cellular growth, metabolism, and development.

The Dutch Scientific Institutes Abroad (NWIBs) are advanced scientific posts of the Dutch universities. These institutes are mainly located around the Mediterranean: in Athens, Cairo, Florence and Rome. The institutes are aimed at supporting and realizing scientific education and research, and also make a substantial contribution to the profiling of Dutch higher education abroad. The institutes are jointly managed by Dutch Universities.

PIE is a platform for Dutch institutes that cooperate with partner institutes in the Global South. The overall aim is to contribute to global and local sustainable development, both in countries and regions where partner institutes are based and in the Netherlands. The main focus is on cooperation in post-secondary education, in scientific and applied research and knowledge development, and in innovation through knowledge application.

UnILiON is an informal network of Brussels liaison offices representing excellent universities based in Europe and Japan. The network represents an arena of exchange where the participants share information, nurture collaboration and act as information multipliers towards the represented organisations.Thanks to UnILiON you can easily access some of the most active research, higher education and innovation players in Europe and beyond.

The Historical Library houses an ancient book heritage of about 6-7000 volumes including monographs and prestigious collections, representing an unparalleled historical-scientific reference for the physical and chemical sciences. Among them: Antoine Lavoisier Trattato elementare di Chimica, Venezia 1796; Antoine-Francois De Fourcroy. Systeme Des Connaissances Chimiques. Paris 1801, First Ed.; Annales de Chimie, Paris 1789-1840, First Ed.; Mathieux Orfila. Trattato de’ Veleni. Napoli 1834, First Ed.; Marie Curie. Recherches sur les Substances Radioactives, Paris 1904.

Transmission electron microscopy enables direct observation of the specimen under near native conditions. The specimen does not undergo any chemical treatment and the data present direct observation of the sample immobilized in the solution of interest.

Small angle X-ray scattering is powerful tool for characterization of particle`s size in nanoparticulate systems. It can be used for measurement of the systems containing particles with sizes up to 100 nm.

The magnetic measurements provide information about superparamagnetic and blocked state of as prepared magnetic nanoparticles. By the analysis of ZFC-FC curves we can extract the value of blocking temperature and predict the mutual magnetic interactions between the nanoparticles. The hysteresis loops interpretation and hysteresis parameters support the data retrieved from ZFC-FC measurements and confirm the magnetic nature of samples.

X-ray powder diffraction is universal technique for characterization and/or identification of powder materials. This method is a powerful tool which provides information concerning phase composition (identification of crystalline phases, quantification of crystalline phases), structural analysis of powder samples, determination of crystallinity (MCL, mean X-ray coherence length), and determination of content of amorphous component.

Mössbauer spectroscopy provides the information about local surroundings of probed iron atoms. By the interpretation of Mössbauer spectra and its hyperfine Mössbauer parameters we can estimate the valence state, oxidation state, spin state, magnetic state of prepared samples.

Triaxial test, direct shear test (100×100 mm and 300×300 mm) and simple shear test; compression tests, Special laboratory tests; e.g.

CBS Sustainability is a multi-disciplinary research centre devoted to the study of sustainable practices and developments in organizations, markets and society at large. The centre was established in 2002 and is today recognized as one of the leading research environments of its kind in Europe.

CBS Sustainability provides external stakeholders with easy access to relevant resources and activities at CBS, while also making it easier for CBS faculty to identify opportunities for collaboration with CBS colleagues and researchers from other universities.

Center for Financial Frictions (FRIC) is a Center of Excellence established by the Danish National Research Foundation. FRIC investigates the impact of financial frictions on the prices of financial assets, on economic development and on the design and regulation of financial markets. The FRIC Center carries out theoretical and empirical analyses of the impact of financial frictions on the prices of financial assets, on economic development and on the design and regulation of financial markets.
FRIC investigates financial frictions, which are costs or impediments to financial transactions. Financial frictions occur for instance as a result of the varying ease by which financial assets are traded (their liquidity), the transactions costs, borrowing constraints, credit risk, capital requirements for financial institutions, and asymmetric information among market participants.

Center for Corporate Governance (CCG) was founded in 2005 by a grant from Copenhagen Business School and currently has 20 staff members, among these 6 professors. Center for Corporate Governance is a virtual forum for the advancement of knowledge within corporate governance. It is an international, interdisciplinary center comprised of researchers in finance, economics, accounting, law, management and international business as well as business executives, auditors and government official.

The Copenhagen School of Energy Infrastructure (CSEI) conducts research in tomorrow’s energy infrastructure from a economic policy point-of-view to ensure a successful transition towards a new sustainable European Energy Infrastructure based on volatile and largely renewable energy sources. CSEI is established as a European research center at CBS’ Department of Economics and delivers expertise and new knowledge as well as education within energy infrastructure in close cooperation with stakeholders from the sector, the European Commission and society at large. CSEI is directly supported by the European Commission (DG Energy), and will qualify the discussions at the Commision’s annual Copenhagen Energy Infrastructure Forum. CSEI will analyze the consequences of digitalization of the energy sector and its impact on energy infrastructure, investigate efficient regional decision-making procedures, explore ways to promote public acceptance of energy infrastructure projects and examine the financial challenges to energy infrastructure projects.

“The POVI Centre
Public Organizations, Values and Innovation

The aim of the center is to understand how public organizations organize themselves in complex modern democracies and how contemporary governance models and innovation play an important role in solving contemporary policy challenges. These challenges are located in different policy areas such as health, security, public infrastructure, climate, anti-corruption, and equality. The overall ambition of POVI is to advance research in the area of public organizations, value and innovation in Denmark as well as internationally. Three themes will enhance our understanding of future ways within public organizing:

Reform and value processes in new governance models
Transformation of public organizations
Nordic Public innovation processes and models”

CBS Library is university library for Copenhagen Business School and is open to the public. The primary task of CBS Library is to make information, knowledge and services available in a structured and manageable way. The library is an integral part of CBS and attend to tasks regarding information, learning and dissemination for CBS’ students, researchers and lecturers. In addition to this, the library is a public library and make information, services and study facilities available to others than CBS.

Digital Tech Summit is Denmark’s meeting point and showcase for digital technologies and a meeting point for strong research environments, technology leaders and start-ups.
Digital Tech Summit gives you opportunity to engage in valuable networking, seek out lead generation on new projects and clients, as well as professional development through the program and speakers, and market insights from the mingling, the sessions and the exhibition area.

The CBS research portal is a repository for publications, projects, student theses, press and media activities from Copenhagen Business School. Get public access to numerous Open Access full text publications written by CBS researchers.

Seven research groups from the faculty of Movement and Behavioral Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam conduct experimental research involving humans and make use of advanced methods of research. One of the goals of the institute is to foster the exchange and development of advanced knowledge for neuro-imaging methods of research. The institute will work as a research incubator where researchers and students work together to push the limits of advanced methods of research.

LEARN! is an interdisciplinary research institute on learning in an institutional and societal context. We bring together colleagues from the behavioural, social, medical and educational sciences to understand: The Micro context of learning of children and adults; The Meso context: the classroom, school organisation, day-care centers, work-based settings or adult colleges; The Macro context: the coordination and governance of learning by school boards, local and national governance.

Philosophical research carried out in the department can be split up according to the three traditional domains: historical, theoretical, practical. The department houses specialists in freedom and responsibility, integrity, the epistemic role of universities, Enlightened thinking and German Idealism, market ethics, the philosophy of psychiatry, the nature of scientific explanations, epistemology of mathematics, and the history of ancient and medieval metaphysics and scientific philosophy.

The History education and research is distinguishing itself with an approach in which European history is not the obvious starting point, and which includes long-term perspectives. The department’s research is organised primarily in the VU’s Interfaculty Research Institute for Culture, Cognition, History and Heritage, CLUE+. Professors, academic staff and PhD students pursue interdisciplinary collaboration, embedded in the research programmes of the various chairs.

Research groups of Language, Literature and Communication have multiple focuses. One of them is developing new perspectives for adults and children with hearing difficulties. Another group looks at how people communicate issues of science and technology in their everyday lives, using Discursive Psychology and Conversation Analysis. There is also an investigation on language use and cognition from the perspective of multimodal communication.

CLUE+ brings together researchers from a wide variety of academic disciplines, to work on joint projects, reflect upon societal challenges and formulate strategies for addressing those challenges. Following the general VU profile themes, the focus is on challenges in the realm of connectedness, sustainability and governance. CLUE+ aims to provide an inspiring research climate for talented young academics as well as for senior and top researchers.

The Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) develops and maintains an advanced syntactic database of the Hebrew Bible. The methodology of the ETCBC prioritises syntactic analysis over semantic, literary, or rhetorical analysis. Formal indicators, rather than functional, comprise the framework of the database. Linguistic information is encoded hierarchically at the word, phrase, clause, and text levels.

The VU Amsterdam Center for Strategizing & Organizing Innovation is dedicated to groundbreaking research and advice on how companies and other organizations can structurally boost their innovation performance and become world-class innovators. Our mission is to provide businesses, their leaders, and the academic community with key insights how to make innovation into a structural success, instead of aiming for incidental hits.

The Center is one of the larger academic groups worldwide with a focus on consulting and professional service firms (PSF). In our teaching we prepare students for a role as junior consultants with a broad and open mind. In our research we focus on the roles and responsibility of professions in our society, and aim to better understand the challenges they and their clients face, be it digitalization, work pressures, diversity, or sustainable innovations.

The VU Center for Diversity and Inclusion in Organizations brings together academics, practitioners, policy makers and other stakeholders to engage in research and find solutions to complex gender and diversity challenges facing organisations. Besides taking a stand, and doing what is right, research continues to show that inclusive organisations outperform organisations in which this topic is taken for granted.

The VU Center for Business & Society aspires to advance research on the role of business in society, driven by the broader question of how businesses are managed, led and organized in order to ensure social and ecological sustainability and contribute to the greater good. The Center is devoted to interdisciplinary, collaborative and impactful research and be recognized as a global thought leader in research on sustainable business practices in and around organizations, markets and society at large.

VU Center for Enterprise Family Research studies enterprises at the family level and aims to be a platform of expertise on how to best prepare the rising generation (siblings or cousins who inherit family assets) to be responsible enterprise owners and figure out for themselves which role they want to play in the oversight and management of the enterprise family. As a research platform, the Center offers opportunities for research and executive collaboration between scholars and practitioners.

The VU Center for Ecosystems is a center of expertise, which aims to be platform for research, education, and valorization. Propagating cross-disciplinary and multi-level research into the emergence, governance, and transformation of ecosystem organizing the center organizes research colloquia (e.g. mini-conferences) to advance a research community on ecosystems. Furthermore, the center will disseminate the results of its an annual ecosystem survey assessing state-of-the-art ecosystem practices.

The VU Center for Boards and Executive Leadership Development aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of factors influencing the decision-making of boards, including board members and CEO characteristics, behavioural patterns, governance structures and regulatory requirements. With a mission to create knowledge that can help top management teams to develop and to better lead contemporary organisations, we aim to explore the interplay of multiple factors that shape the performance of boards and top executives within the boards.

The VU Center for Feedback Culture is a center of expertise that aims to be a platform for research to examine how feedback culture can be cultivated in organizations in different fields and across different countries. The Center offers opportunities for research and executive education collaborations between scholars and practitioners who are interested in the topic. Specifically, the Center aims to bring researchers and practitioners together by organizing sessions where practices and insights can be shared.

The SERVUS originated from an active group of researchers and practitioners at amongst others the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Greenleaf Centre Europe, THTConsulting, VUMedical Centre and VU School of Business and Economics. At a meta level, we see the main reason for SERVUS’ existence: to meet the needs of future generations of leaders to be effective in diverse (business) environments, through the development of a robust new paradigm of servant- leadership in research and education.

ADRIBA is a platform for the scientific deepening, broadening and dissemination of behavioral analysis and Organizational Behavior Management (OBM), the science of behavioral change in organisations. Performance, or performance, is central to ADRIBA. The starting point is a performance issue within an organization. We see improving performance best through the principle of shaping. In other words: a step better every time. Measurable.

Research in the Strategic Management group is diverse but united by a common desire to understand and explain organizational phenomena in the context of global competition. Our research ethos reflects an appreciation for multiple form of inquiry and we bring together expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, ranging from on-site field-work and in-depth participant observation to experimental studies in laboratory settings. We study organizations and their strategies applying a multifaceted toolkit of theories, such as contingency theory, the resource-based view, institutional theory, and identity theory.

The Organizational Theory group broadly addresses the processes in which individuals, and groups, and corporate structures interact and how these processes influence and are influenced by their contexts. In particular, we focus on organizational transformation from multiple perspectives and using a multi-disciplinary approach.

The purpose of the VU Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management (HRM) research group is to create knowledge that can enable organisations to understand and proactively manage the current realignments and shifts in employment practices, technology, demography, and organisational structures. Our research is organized in five core themes: careers and meaningful work, the future of work design, leadership and organisational change, talent management, and diversity management and inclusion.

VU activities in the field of entrepreneurship are bundled in the Center of Entrepreneurship at VU (CfE@VU). Nevertheless, the VU activities in the field of entrepreneurship are spread all over the university, even literally over the whole VU campus. Some examples are the famous courses in entrepreneurship for science students and for human movement students. The research activities are often joint efforts by international and Multidisciplinary teams.

The Ethics, Governance and Society (EGS) department is known for research and teaching on ethical dilemmas and implications of a broad range of global governance themes. EGS is a Multidisciplinary group of scholars focusing on governance and ethics issues related to decision making in organizations, institutions, markets and society. Drawing on insights from a variety of disciplines in the social sciences, Health and humanities, and a wide range of methods (including philosophical and formal logic and mathematical modelling), EGS develops theoretical and formal frameworks that provide insights into social dynamics and their ethical and governance aspects.

The KIN Center for Digital Innovation researches the development and use of digital innovations in organizations. Our interdisciplinary group of 35 researchers offers state-of-the-art expertise in the broad field of digital innovation; from the development of smart technologies in ecosystems to changing working methods under the influence of AI, from crowdsourcing via online platforms to the changing role of the IT organization. Typical to KIN is its ‘embedded research’: research in close collaboration with industry partners.

Research efforts are aimed at analyzing data-driven decision-making problems arising in industry and society, in particular related to Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Sustainability and Networks. By examining the mathematical structure and properties of these decision-making problems and by developing novel data analysis and optimization methods, the Department offers academic and practical insights on how to tackle contemporary challenges.

The Department of Spatial Economics offers insights and applications in urban, regional, transport and environmental challenges from a primarily economic perspective, often enriched through multi-disciplinary collaborations. The 60 staff members are involved in both fundamental research as well as in national and international commissioned research. With this research, the department has gained national and international recognition, as shown by the large number of international publications and citations.

The research is characterized by a strong emphasis on relevance for business and society, and is centred around social marketing (e.g., health, sustainability, public policy). These topics are investigated from different perspectives, often bridging the three sub disciplines, for instance by applying behavioural theories to strategic issues or by combining experimental data with modelling approaches. In recent years, the Department has invested highly in its research program.

The Finance department at VU Amsterdam is a solid and growing department within the School of Business and Economics. With more than 30 faculty members the department of finance conducts world-leading research in major fields of finance. Members of our department have received prestigious research and teaching awards and publish regularly in all major finance and economics journals, such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial Economics.

In recent decades, inequality in the world has been increasing. Governance for Society looks at the underlying causes of inequality and how they relate to differences between regions, between urban and rural areas, and between educational levels. For example, Professor of Policy Evaluation Bas van der Klaauw focuses his research on economic inequality. What makes someone successful? And to what extent does education play a role in this?

The Econometrics and Data Science department aims at pushing the academic frontier in methodology development for quantitative, statistical modeling of data, ranging from machine learning methods to more traditional statistical and econometric techniques.Our teaching mission is to empower students with the methodological skills and continuing curiosity to contribute to solving today’s challenges in business and economics using the most up-to-date statistical and econometric tools.

ARCA’s main objective is to facilitate and stimulate fundamental and applied research in the following areas: Financial Accounting and Financial Reporting, Management Accounting, Management Control, Accounting Information Systems, and Auditing. ARCA is also committed to bridge the gap between the academic community and practice by conducting commissioned research and by disseminating research outcomes among a wider audience.

The advancement of knowledge in all aspects of human reproduction and development through interdisciplinary team science aimed at improving health from preconception to adulthood of current and future generations. We are inspired by a future of continuous and sustainable improvement in health for all. We aspire a role at the forefront of fundamental, translational, and clinical science and public health research in human reproduction and development, creating a knowledge hub to guide science that serves the wider society.

The Amsterdam Public Health research institute (APH) is a network institute and forms an important link between intramural clinical care, scientific research, and the extramural care practice in the metropolitan area Amsterdam. Much research performed within APH has the potential to have a direct impact on the society and in practice. This is embedded within our mission: Public Health: health for all, powered by science.

Amsterdam Neuroscience is the research institute for neuroscience of Amsterdam UMC and the science faculties of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam. Researchers and clinicians from these three institutions join forces in the field of fundamental, translational and clinical brain research. This collaboration strengthens the scientific excellence in this area, making Amsterdam Neuroscience one of the largest neuroscience communities in Europe.

Amsterdam Movement Sciences focuses on human movement, a key issue for today’s society, and approaches this in a broad interdisciplinary composition, covering from fundamental to clinical and from cellular to population research. The institute aims at being world leading in the field of interdisciplinary translational research on human movement and physical performance, and to disseminate its results to end-users so that society benefits optimally from our research results.

The mission of the Amsterdam institute for Infection and Immunity (AII) is to develop knowledge and expertise to prevent, diagnose or treat infectious diseases, inflammatory diseases and cancer. The need to focus and combine research activities in the research programs inflammatory diseases, infectious diseases and cancer immunology is crucial in order to identify common and novel immune correlates and pathways to work towards innovative treatment regimens.

AGEM unites the research at the Amsterdam UMC involved at the intersection of nutrition, microbiology, digestion, endocrinology and metabolism and aims to make an important contribution to improve gastrointestinal, endocrine and metabolic health and reduce the burden of diseases such as colorectal cancer (CRC), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), diabetes mellitus (DM) and phenylketonuria (PKU).

The Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences (ACS) research institute aims to design novel treatment strategies to prevent and cure cardiovascular disease. We organized the cardiovascular research in Amsterdam in five Research Programs in which all aspects of translational research are embedded, covering research from the bench to the bedside and vice versa.

Cancer Center Amsterdam is an academic oncology center that aims to create groundbreaking new possibilities for patients with cancer. To achieve this, we integrate world-class research with healthcare and education to boldly push boundaries and discover new insights and opportunities. By making direct use of the knowledge obtained from our research, we can provide the best innovative and compassionate care for patients with cancer.

The Centre for Climate Change, Corporations and the Law conducts research in the field where Law, Corporations and Climate Change meet. Research in this field has become increasingly relevant due to the broad consensus that climate change forms a direct threat to humanity. While the Law has the purpose of protecting legitimate human interests and businesses play a key role in controlling greenhouse gas emissions.

The ACFL researchers have diverse expertise in the field of Dutch, comparative and European law of persons, family and juvenile law, and behavioral sciences. An important goal of ACFL is to pool this knowledge of its researchers and to create an optimal environment for the combination of classical legal national, comparative law and Multidisciplinary (empirical) research. Furthermore, ACFL aims to contribute to the scientific debate on the development of Dutch family law, as well as to the broad international discourse on the development of family & law in Europe and beyond.

The CICJ is an independent non-partisan university center dedicated to interdisciplinary academic research and education, policy analysis and debate on international crimes, international and transitional justice, as well as conceptual and institutional responses to mass atrocity. The Center’s staff is specialized in different fields of study, including international law, criminal law, criminology, (legal) psychology and anthropology, and in methods of social sciences research.

The aim is to track the multiplicity of complex developments in migration law that take place at the international, European and national levels. Research is conducted on diverse topics, as asylum and refugee law and family reunion law. This implies research into the human costs of border control, the intersection between the family and migration law, the role of the judiciary, the relation between (irregular) migration and the welfare state, the EU principle of mutual trust and the role of time in migration law.

The Department of Criminal Law and Criminology conducts research and provides education that focuses on fighting and preventing crime. Criminality and the fight against it are at the pinnacle of public interest. Not a day goes by without the media reporting of new crimes and of new penal cases. In daily life, a large group of professionals are involved in the combating and prevention of crime: a task for which proper and detailed knowledge of criminal law and criminology is indispensable. The Department of Criminal Law and Criminology makes an important contribution to this end, first and foremost, by offering various courses and education programs in the legal and socio-scientific fields. Furthermore, the Department contributes to the academic and social debate by publishing numerous scientific articles and delivering specialized lectures. The use of substantive and procedural criminal law in our society, taking also into account processes of globalization, digitalization and new technological developments, is at the forefront of our focus. The members of our Department also share their knowledge by participating in advisory committees, training professionals and through other secondary activities. The connection between academia, society and legal practice is thus ingrained in the functioning of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology.

The center deals with systematic and comparatively focused research on urban issues. The activity of the Center for Urban History (CUH) is mainly focused on the study of urban life in the territory of Central and Central Eastern Europe. Urban society in general represents an ideal subject for analytical research into culture and societal transformations over time, urban issues must be seen as an interdisciplinary research field. CUH is thus not a historical workplace in the traditional sense, but a workplace using the methods and approaches of history, sociology, statistics, demography, cultural anthropology, etc. Research within the Center of Urban History is closely connected with the pedagogical activities of its members and external collaborators, who present the results of their research at lectures and regular seminar classes.

Asta Žukauskaitė research group is interested in synthesis and application potential of indoles and their bioisosteres. Her team members devote synthetic efforts towards naturally occurring, putative and nature inspired indolic compounds. They adapt and, if necessary, develop synthetic methodologies to prepare isotopically labelled internal standards of naturally occurring indoles (i.e., auxins, tryptophan metabolites, etc.), enabling their identification and quantification in plant and/or animal tissues, which is essential for physiological studies investigating their mode of action. Fluorescently labelled auxins are being developed for visualization of auxin transport, as well as tissue-specific and subcellular localization in planta, without the use of marker or reporter lines.

Biological activity as well as unique metabolic properties of prepared derivatives is evaluated in different bioassays, receptor assays, field experiments on various crops (corn, barley, wheat, rape seed, poppy seed) as well as different in vitro tissue-systems of various plat species, including ornamental, medicinal and endangered ones (in collaboration with different labs around the world, e.g. in South Africa or Belgium). New derivatives cross-talk with endogenous plant hormones (cytokinins, auxins, jasmonates, salicilates, abscisic acic…) is determined in the plant extracts using UHPLC-MS/MS as well as in situ by mass spectrometry imaging.

Another important area of the group’s activity is the synthesis of selected biologically active candidates in a larger scale and the solution of the subsequent transfer of technology from laboratory to semi-pilot and pilot scale. Cooperation with the commercial sphere is also very important, especially in the development of new technologies. The great result of the group’s work is, among other things, a number of granted international patents.

Research projects within Pospisil2ab focus on the (semi) synthetic preparation of natural substances, and on the development of new environmentally friendly synthetic procedures suitable for their preparation. In the field of natural substances, we focus mainly on (1) phenylpropanoid based plant secondary metabolites – lignans and neolignans, and on (2) plant growth regulators – gibberellins. This type of substances are prepared by (3) new synthetic procedures that are based on new synthetic methods and (pluripotent) reagents designed and developed within the group. The goal of such protocols is to create new structurally and stereo diverse chemical libraries of (potentially) biologically active substances. Substances that are subsequently used in the study of (bio)chemical transformations. The aim of the research is to find new molecular targets in studied biological targets. Our bioactivity studies focus mainly on substances with leishmanicidal and anthelmitic effects. (more info at www.pospisilab.com)

The group led by Lucie Plíhalová is dedicated to the design, preparation and research of new small heterocyclic, especially purine, molecules, most often derived from plant regulators. These substances have, in miniature concentrations, an unprecedented biological activity in plants, which can be better mapped by using their fluorescent or isotopically labelled derivatives. Controlled derivatization or slight modification of these plant molecules can also effectively modulate the biological effects on plant cells and tissues and thus prepare, for example, modern substances for the treatment of plants without significant burden on the environment. Inspired by plant substances, new heterocyclic bioactive substances with an effect on human cells and tissues, with potential use in cosmetics or hygiene, are also being prepared and investigated.

Group specializing in collection and analysis of chemical data.

The overall objective of this group is to provide an in-depth understanding of cultural traditions, intercultural borrowings and diffusions in various regions in Asia. The focus on matters of transmission as social and cultural processes inevitably lead to a greater awareness of how cultures are highly interwoven and interdependent. While we are spatially concerned with different regions in Asia, our work is methodologically based on field research. Those dealing with material culture look at how artefacts enable cultural knowledge storage the articulation of identity, e.g. of specific cultural communities. Another important part of material culture is looking at the consumer side of objects. Who were the objects made for and what can we learn about the underlying motivations? We have a material culture lab at our disposal where artefacts can be chemically examined, for example, for their composition or regarding their surface morphology and composition.

“Facilities available:
– Sharebot Q 3D polymer printer
– Sharebot 42 3D polymer printer
– Markforged X7 3D polymer and composite printer
– Full equipment to produce polymer wires for 3D printing starting from both new and recycled materials
– Power quality analizer – Chauvin Arnoux 8331
– Gabi software for professional LCA analysis
– Hitachi TM 3000 SEM equipped with National Instruments EDX microprobe and Deben minitensile stage
– Leica DCM 3D Confocal Microscope
– Universal testing Machine 50 kN Galdabini Quasar
– Biologic SP 150 Potentiostat and Galvanostat with low impedance modulus for electrochemical analysis
– Rotating beam fatigue machine
– A series of light microscopes for various analysis
– A fully equipped metallographic preparation lab.”

Laboratory of Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) at DiSTAR is equipped with a SEM Jeol JSM5310 and a FESEM ZEISS Merlin VP. They both allow the investigation of the microstructure and morphology of raw inorganic and suitably prepared organic materials, through the acquisition of high resolution magnified digital images.
SEM Jeol JSM5310, in the lab since 1998, provides both 3D images through a secondary electron detector (SE) and topographic and compositional images through a backscattered electron detector (BSE). It is also equipped with an EDS X-Stream Inca Oxford detector that supplies qualitative evaluation of chemical elements starting from fluorine. A well performing reference standardization allows single point analyses of polished samples (resin embedded or thin sections).
The FESEM ZEISS Merlin VP SEM, available in the lab since 2017, works both in high vacuum and in variable pressure and reaches 1 million magnification. The very large vacuum chamber of Gemini 2 apparatus hosts samples up to 15 cm diameter. This SEM is equipped with an “”inlens”” detector of both secondary and backscattered electrons, a normal secondary electron detector and a variable pressure secondary electron detector. It is linked to an EDS Oxford X-Max detector and to a WDS Wave Oxford spectrometer equipped with 4 analytical crystals. The combined use of EDS and WDS analytical facilities allows the quantitative analysis of chemical elements starting from Boron. A dedicated software provides us with compositional maps for the automated evaluation of the mineralogical composition in an unknown sample. The FESEM facility allows non-destructive and non-invasive analyses of large samples, which makes this apparatus the most powerful tool for SEM investigation in cultural heritage and forensic geology fields. The laboratory is officially accredited for SEM analysis of asbestos, on both massive samples and airborne fibers.

The role of the Institute of International Affairs (IIA) is to provide education, promote research, and carry out service projects in the field of international relations. It aspires to serve both academic and professional needs and stimulate a general discussion on subjects relating to international affairs. To this end, the Institute plans and carries out research on various subjects and hosts conferences, seminars, and lectures concerning international affairs. It offers various services to both the private and public sector, conducting surveys, writing reports, and carrying out research on a range of topics. It publishes books and papers on international relations and Icelandic foreign affairs. International cooperation and interdisciplinary discussions are important factors in the work of the IIA. Over one hundred scholars with various types of expertise participate in the work of the IIA, CAS and the CSSS, and the institutes have ties to a number of foreign research bodies. The IIA is a forum for dialogue between the academic community, the private sector, and public service in the area of international relations. The Institute of International Affairs was established in 1990 but was expanded and re-structured with the creation of the Centre for Small State Studies in 2001. The Centre for Arctic Studies was launched in March 2013. The Institute and the Centres are supervised by a joint Steering Board. All three are housed within the University of Iceland’s School of Social Sciences but with close links to the School of Humanities. Höfði Reykjavík Peace Centre is the newest addition to the Institute of International Affairs and it was established in October 2016.

The BioMedical Center is an official collaboration between research groups working in biomedical molecular life sciences within the University of Iceland, the National Hospital, Reykjavík University, and other research institutions. The research groups focus on various fields of research, including molecular biology of cancer, stem cell biology, neural biology, gene and transcription regulation, gene therapy, nutritional biochemistry, immunology, and physiology.

Research groups from four faculties (Pharmacy and Chemistry; Mathematics, Informatics and Physics; Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences; Technical Sciences) cooperate within this research focus in order to fully exploit the synergies between physics, chemistry, earth sciences, pharmaceutical technology, and civil engineering. Synergies and strength areas are found in the fields of clusters, polymorphism/phase transitions, catalysis-reactivity, high-pressure research and materials engineering. A particular strength of the research focus lies in high-pressure, high-temperature synthesis and characterization of materials, which results e.g. in hitherto inaccessible coordination geometries in solid state compounds. Thereby, fabrication of novel materials with tailored optical, electronic and mechanical properties becomes possible. Furthermore, elaborate technologies allow us to mimic conditions which are found deep in the earth mantle, thus permitting unprecedented insights into geomechanical and geochemical processes. Strong activities are focused on clusters in the gas phase and on surfaces. Basic questions ranging from the “magic” stability of clusters to the electronic structure and the possibility of tailor-making catalyst for chemical reactions are explored. Another important focus of the platform is the study of phase diagrams, phase transitions and of metastable materials, both in the bulk and in low-dimensional materials are investigated, including ferrolectric or superconductive materials. New concepts of phase transitions in amorphous systems, particularly water and ice, have resulted in the discovery of new phases and in new concepts such as cryocatalysis. The expertise in phase transitions, polymorphism and watersolid interactions is finally being exploited to obtain better control of drug formulation and performance.

The Center Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Innsbruck (CGI) and the affiliated research platform researches, theorizes and deconstructs gender and gender relations in a trans- and interdisciplinary perspective. The CGI and the Research Platform deepen the cooperation of scientists and lecturers in the field of Women´s*, Gender, Feminist and Queer Studies regionally, nationally and transnationally. In addition, they seeks to enhance the links to international research, strengthen Women´s*, Gender, Feminist and Queer Studies through cooperations with non-university actors and organisations and to disseminate research findings to the public, politics and society in order to contribute to the reduction of intersectional inequalities.

EPoS „Economy, Politics & Society“ is an interdisciplinary research area in which economic, organizational, political and social structures, contexts and developments are studied. The scientific diversity of this interdisciplinary research focus facilitates mutual information about new findings across disciplinary and organizational boundaries and inspires the development of new research ideas and collaborations. The disciplines represented in the research area EPoS from the fields of business administration, educational science, media science, work and organizational psychology, philosophy, political science, sociology, statistics and economics deal with the following theoretical, methodological and content-related focal points based on a broad spectrum of competences: We research frameworks, structures and processes, behavior and decisions and their consequences for institutions, markets, companies, organizations, groups, communities and individuals in different cultural, digital and temporal-spatial contexts; We develop new methodological procedures for data collection and data analysis and work with theory-based empirical and experimental approaches as well as mathematical formal modelling; We deal with questions of philosophy of science, reflexivity in the theory of science, scientific practices, relational theory and methodology. This way, we provide relevant information for decision-makers in politics, business and society on how to deal with current and future challenges. The researchers of EPoS “Economy, Politics & Society” strive for high quality research and relevance through interdisciplinary and international cooperation; all scientific questions are examined from multiple perspectives. High-ranking publications, the quality of the submissions of competitive research proposals as well as in the promotion of young researchers in the established doctoral programs reflect our efforts.

“The Research Area Scientific Computing integrates all scientific activity at the University of Innsbruck in information technology (IT) and computer-aided research. High-end computing facilities allow the simulation and optimization of complex processes, as well as the organization, analysis and presentation of big data to solve increasingly complex compute- and data-intensive problems in many different fields such as science, engineering and life-science.

Aims of the Research Area SC are to use the inherent synergies between various research areas and different fields by cooperating within the university, as well as between different universities and other institutions in Austria and all over the world. Thus fruitful interdisciplinary research is fostered by exchanging knowledge and information, by sharing resources, by coordinating funding for keeping and developing the necessary infrastructure, as well as by enhancing science oriented teaching.”

Physics provides the foundation for our understanding of nature and the development of new technologies. New insights and important discoveries in physics strongly influence our daily life, as shown for example by the discovery of electricity and X-rays or the development of the transistor, the laser and magnetic resonance tomography. Also in the future we can expect many new achievements, ranging from new insights into nature to fascinating new technologies based on quantum mechanics. Within the international community the Innsbruck physics research center connects top-level research among a broad range of physical topics with outstanding education facilities and combines three research centers three basic research fields: the Center of Astronomy and Particle Physics (Speaker: Norbert Przybilla), the Center of Ion- and Plasma Physics/Applied Physics (Speaker: Paul Scheier), and the Center of Quantum physics (Speaker: Francesca Ferlaino). The recently granted doctoral college „Atome, Licht und Moleküle“ from the Austrian Science Fund FWF serves as a training center for highly qualified and motivated academic talents from the national and international scientific community. This further intensifies the cooperation among scientists similar to the Special Research Programs FoQuS (SFB F40), which connects theoretical and experimental research groups from Innsbruck and Vienna under the common goal to improve the understanding of the basic building blocks and the applications of quantum physics. Additionally the technological capabilities have been improved recently by jointly used state-of-the-art facilities. The physics research in Innsbruck has an excellent international reputation, which also shows up in many awards for scientific members, for example two Wittgenstein awards and many ERC- and START-Grants. The Physics Research Center has many intense collaborations with leading research centers worldwide and forms an international environment for scientists from all over the world. Students benefit from the large diversity of excellent education and advanced training. The gained research experience in this environment offers excellent career opportunities for young physicists, not only in the scientific field but also in many other areas.

The Research Area “Cultural Encounters – Cultural Conflicts” is an association of disciplines from the humanities and the social sciences that investigates diverse forms of cultural contact. We understand ‘culture’ as a dynamic system concerned with the creation of meaning. These dynamics are analyzed as places of both creativity and the continuous emergence of new formations, but also of conflict-laden relations that may culminate in violence and warfare. Mobility, migration, and transfer – thus our working hypothesis – not only constitute the crucial challenges of our times, but are experiences fundamental to all epochs. These processes affect the evolution of groups, societies, religions, and behavior patterns, the creation of art and literary works, as well as practices of everyday life. As cultural phenomena, they are historically contingent and thus complex and potentially modifiable. They reflect current power structures and social inequalities; at the same time, they are intrinsically tied to the search for orientation and order.

Digital procedures, methods, and media are transforming all aspects of our society including science, economy, and social relations, a process known as digitalization. Growing capacities of data processing and progress in analytical methods and artificial intelligence are motivating entire branches of science to raise new questions and to develop new approaches. This transformation requires progressive, interdisciplinary synergies between computer science and related scientific disciplines such as mathematics and statistics on the one hand, and virtually all other scientific disciplines on the other Hand. The objective of the Digital Science Center at the University of Innsbruck integrates and promotes digitalization of scientific research, spearheading new research directions and supporting high-quality science. To this end, it employs staff researchers from diverse scientific disciplines with high competence in digital science. It forges new interdisciplinary research synergies and offers courses to promote competence in digital science in all scientific disciplines.

The research area benefits from a broad field of expertise with a special focus on mountain areas. Based on the idea of a multi-faculty University, we have experts from 8 research centers working in natural and technical sciences, in social, economic as well as in cultural, sport and health sciences. Thanks to the different disciplines involved, our research focus is able to address topics relevant to mountain areas from various perspectives. This is becoming more and more important, as mountain regions are considered especially vulnerable to increasing climate change impacts and globalization. We react to these issues by merging results from all embedded disciplines and extending the output in interdisciplinary research frameworks. Beyond fundamental research, the interdisciplinary strategy should help to contribute to smart solutions for sustainable development in mountain areas, and to pursue outreach activities in mountain communities.

The Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (ELH) is a center for research, development and application of ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging (UHF-MRI), particularly in cognitive neurosciences and clinical diagnostic imaging. Centerpiece of the Erwin L. Hahn Institute is a whole-body ultrahigh field (UHF) MAGNETOM Terra 7-Tesla MRI System from Siemens Healthcare operating at a magnetic field strength of 7 Tesla. The ELH was founded as a central institution of the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen in 2005.

The Centre for Logistics and Traffic (ZLV) dedicates itself to the interdisciplinary conception, management and transfer of scientific work in the areas of logistics, mobility and traffic. The ZLV is thereby geared towards long-term sustainable, economically beneficial, socially acceptable and ecologically reliable innovations.

The Center of Medical Biotechnology (ZMB) is an interdisciplinary scientific center of the University of Duisburg-Essen and provides the framework for research in the field of biomedical science. The ZMB integrates basic scientific research on the UDE campus with application-oriented medical research at the University Hospital Essen. The mission of the ZMB is to elucidate molecular mechanisms of disease and to turn this knowledge into medical progress. To this end, the ZMB is active in key areas of basic biomedical research, and the translation of scientific knowledge into novel drugs and diagnostic tools. Accordingly, approx. 80 workgroups of the ZMB combine basic and applied biomedical sciences. The interdisciplinary research approach is also reflected in joint research and collaborative projects between the three participating faculties, which focus on three research areas: i) oncology, ii) immunology, infectious diseases and transplantation and iii) molecular and chemical cell biology. A dynamic, stimulating and collaborative research environment includes state of the art facilities and more than 600 highly educated personnel. Our interdisciplinary research crosses traditional boundaries and involves joint projects with the biotechnical and pharmaceutical industry, nanotechnology, physics and engineering. ZMB members actively participate in our educational and research-oriented Bachelor- and Master Schemes in Medical Biology and Molecular Biology that prepare for a scientific career in the biomedical field. Doctoral students benefit from established measures for the promotion of young scientists, such as structured (inter)national doctoral programs initiated under the auspices or with the participation of ZMB members.

The EUA Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE) strives to be an inclusive community of academic leaders and professionals. We welcome membership applications from all European universities awarding doctoral degrees and institutions working on issues related to doctoral education and research training. EUA-CDE brings together the largest community of academic leaders and professionals working on doctoral education and research training in Europe.

SURF is a cooperative association of Dutch educational and research institutions in which the members combine their strengths. Within SURF, we work together to acquire or develop the best possible digital services, and to encourage knowledge sharing through continuous innovation. The members are the owners of SURF.

Research and data management software for open science. OSF is a free, open platform to support your research and enable collaboration. OSF Institutions enhances transparency and increases the visibility of research outputs, accelerating discovery and reuse. Institutional members focus on generating and sharing research, and let OSF Institutions handle the infrastructure.

EIT Climate-KIC is a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC), working to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon, climate-resilient society. EIT Climate-KIC runs a range of inspirational education programmes across Europe and online, for students, postgraduates and professionals. These programmes develop their participants’ skills and capacities, empowering them with up-to-date knowledge and best practice.

In Universities of The Netherlands (UNL), Dutch universities work together towards a strong university sector. The 14 Dutch universities within Universities of The Netherlands show the outside world how they fulfil their social function, formulate shared ambitions relating to academic education and research and valorisation, and lobby for the preconditions needed to realise these ambitions. UNL office identifies, prioritises and supports the association’s steering groups and Board.

LIBER supports and speaks up on behalf of university, national and special libraries – their institutions and their users – across Europe. LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) is the voice of Europe’s RESEARCH LIBRARY community. Approximately 420 national, university and other libraries are part of LIBER and our wider network includes goal-oriented partnerships with other organisations in Europe and beyond.

University Social Responsibility Network (USRN) is a global network for the promotion of social responsibility as a core component of the university mission. USRN provides its participating members with an effective platform for productive collaboration in all USR fields, thus forming the vanguard for the global spread of social responsibility. The platform has 20 participating universities spread across the global continents.

ASPHER is the key independent European organisation dedicated to strengthening the role of public health by improving education and training of public health professionals for both practice and research.

European Infrastructure for Biological Data

Czech National Infrastructure for Biological Data

NUAS (“Det Nordiska Universitets Administratörs Samarbetet”) is a member-driven collaborative organization established in 1976. Initially, one joint seminar was arranged annually. Today, NUAS’ membership base includes 65 universities and university colleges. NUAS has 14 interest groups that focus on specific administrative disciplines, with a total of 125 active members.

The objectives of the Network project are to strengthen and promote the higher education system in Iceland, to achieve more efficient use of resources in university operations, and to ensure strong and varied higher education operations throughout the country.

The Knowledge Transfer Centre West (WTZ West) is Western Austria’s biggest competence centre for academic knowledge and technology transfer. The WTZ West connects six universities and four universities of applied sciences in a professional network with the aim of generating new knowledge horizons, combining potentials and putting research at the forefront. The Knowledge Transfer Centre West is funded by the austria wirtschaftsservice aws with the financial means of the Nationalstiftung für Forschung, Technologie und Innovation.

READ-COOP SCE with limited liability was established as a European Cooperative Society to sustain and further develop the Transkribus platform. Transkribus is a comprehensive platform for handwritten text recognition used by thousands of scholars, archivists, librarians and family-historians worldwide. Transkribus was developed within the Horizon 2020 project READ (Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents) by a consortium of leading research groups from all over Europe, headed by the University of Innsbruck.

The CCCA is a contact point for researchers, politicians, the media, and the public for all questions concerning climate research in Austria. Thus, the CCCA promotes a sustainable climate dialog. The term “climate research” encompasses the scientific examination of climate change, its physical, political, economic, cultural and social causes, the consequences of climate change for society, the economy and the environment, climate mitigation and adaptation strategies and identification of vulnerabilities and capacities.

Joint research is an important pillar of the European Region. For this reason, the Universities of Bozen-Bolzano, Innsbruck and Trento committed to promoting the mobility of researchers and students. Improving mobility, expanding the range of curricula at the partner Universities and strengthening cross-border research as well as promoting young scientists are just some of the common goals.

AURAM is a network uniting the research support staff of Austria’s public universities. Its main aim is to offer professional support for all science- and research-related topics. Transregional networking and a regular exchange of ideas are the cornerstones of its mission to give new impetus to the universities’ research support landscape and to professionalize existing research support offers. By opening up new perspectives on current research topics and programs in collaboration with relevant funding organizations, AURAM seeks to pave the way for future success.

The ASEAN European Academic University Network (ASEA-UNINET) is a network of universities, consisting of European and South-East Asian universities with the goal of promoting the continuous internationalization of education and research. Every year more than 100 bilateral and multilateral research projects are conducted. Furthermore, PhD and Post-Doc scholarships are granted to students and researchers. In addition, international workshops, conferences, summer/winter schools as well as networking events are organized on a regular basis.

The UniNEtZ partner institutions take on so-called (co-)sponsorships for the SDGs. A sponsorship means that the institution coordinates and compiles all knowledge and activities throughout Austria on the respective SDG. Participation describes the content-related collaboration on a specific SDG. Through these intensive collaborations and professional engagement with the SDGs, all contributions are collected, critically examined and coordinated with each other in order to work on the development of an options paper in the period 2019-2021. This is intended to support the Austrian government in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Disaster Competence Network Austria (DCNA) bundles scientific expertise in the field of disaster research. The networking platform acts as a focal point for disaster research, bringing together scientific institutions and their stakeholders, as well as public and private entities. Furthermore, DCNA brings together and exploits existing scientific and technical infrastructures and expertise in the field of disaster risk management.

The Austrian-African Research Network Africa-UniNet was initiated to create a long-term, stable basis for cooperation between Austrian and African universities and research institutions. It intends to promote new contacts, deepen scientific cooperation and provide excellent opportunities for innovative joint research projects.

The aim of the NAR is to follow the course of development of individuals with autism over time, primarily through online questionnaires. We collect information on a wide range of topics related to the living situation of people with autism in the Netherlands. This way we can identify the differences and similarities between people with autism. The data from the NAR are valuable for scientific research. The NAR also helps people with autism to protect their interests and improve their quality of life. Parents of children with autism, people with autism, but also health care professionals and scientists all have questions about autism. Together, we can find answers to these questions. For instance, one person with autism may be able to hold a job, and have a satisfying social life, while the other one, despite similar cognitive skills, fails to do so. What causes such individual differences? What additional problems do individuals with autism develop? What are the benefits of having autism? What are success factors? By following a large group of people we can explore what factors have an impact on their quality of life.

The research carried out by the Netherlands Twin Register focuses on the role of heritability in mental and physical health. For instance, the NTR investigates why some people become more easily depressed than others, or why certain people get diabetes while others don’t. Other research areas include lifestyle and habits that influence health and disease, such as smoking, drinking and exercise.

FIRMBACKBONE is an organically growing longitudinal data-infrastructure with information on Dutch companies for academic research. Once it is ready, it will become available for researchers affiliated with universities in the Netherlands through ODISSEI, the Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations. FIRMBACKBONE is an initiative of and collaboration between Utrecht University and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Why? The digitalization of our society and economy has enabled novel methods of data collection and analysis of companies. Such digital data are both deep (i.e., detailed) and long (i.e., over time) in scope and harbor much potential for creating new economic insights and applications. However, academic researchers in (applied) economics and adjacent fields (e.g., management, entrepreneurship, economic geography and history) currently lack access to a comprehensive and longitudinal data source on Dutch companies. Often-heard complaints from researchers are that such data are too expensive to obtain or not user-friendly. How? A “backbone” will be created that contains a list of company names and company numbers that are publicly accessible. We will enrich the data with additional public information (e.g., through web scraping of company websites) and by collaborating with local data suppliers.

ODISSEI (Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations) is the national research infrastructure for the social sciences in the Netherlands. ODISSEI brings together researchers with the necessary data, expertise and resources to conduct ground-breaking research and embrace the computational turn in social enquiry. Through ODISSEI, researchers have access to large-scale, longitudinal data collections as well as innovative and diverse new forms of data.

DANS is the Dutch national centre of expertise and repository for research data. We help researchers make their data available for reuse. This allows researchers to use the data for new research and makes published research verifiable and reproducible. With more than 180,000 datasets and a staff of 60, DANS is one of the leading repositories in Europe.

The Imagebase presents highlights from the University Library of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. It contains high quality images and detailed descriptions of various collections, a valuable source for both national and international research. What may you find in the Imagebase? On offer are: clay tablets and other objects from the Near and Middle East, engraved portraits of protestant leaders (ca. 1500), historical maps (before 1900), and many other resources. The images are of high quality with detailed descriptions which make them suitable for national and international researchers.

The special and historical collections comprise 26 separate collections (see overview, soon available in English: https://vu.nl/nl/over-de-vu/meer-over/zwaartepunten).
Focal points include Reformation prints, English prints, pamphlets and portraits.

Digital Humanities: because of their size, some sub-collections can be interesting for computational methods of research. We have made an overview of potentially interesting collections for digital humanities.

The repository of the URV serves Rovira i Virgili University as the digital repository for the institution’s research output created by the members of the URV. This includes unpublished articles (preprints), peer-reviewed articles (postprints), published articles, research datasets, end-of-degree and end-of-masters theses, doctoral theses, teaching materials, and other documents that may be of interest. It is also open to all the institutions that make up the Campus of International Excellence Southern Catalonia that wish to use it on a cooperative basis.

Database of interaction of small molecules with membranes

Database of chemical experimental demonstrations with a focus on elementary schools and high schools

CLARIN-IS is part of CLARIN ERIC. The main goal of CLARIN ERIC is that all digital language resources and tools from all over Europe and beyond are accessible through a single sign-on online environment to support researchers in the humanities and social sciences, and for use within language technology. The repository of CLARIN-IS (repository.clarin.is) contains a lot of resources – tools for language processing, corpora, lexica and language descriptions of various kinds. All the products of the Language Technology Programme for Icelandic (2019–2023) were uploaded to the repository as well as the resources that used to be on www.malfong.is. The repository has a powerful search engine but in order to provide a simple overview, most of the data are shown here.

“DATICE is a data service and archive for Icelandic social science research data. Our goal is to ensure open and free access to high quality data for the research community as well as the general public. The service is located within the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) at the University of Iceland.DATICE‘s main goals are: to make Icelandic social science research data findable, accessible and reusable, whether for research, teaching or public policy making to ensure availability of high-quality research data for the research community and the general public to provide safe and accessible solutions for long term data storage DATICE‘s main services are:
-to solicitate, acquire and disseminate research data that can be used in secondary analysis
-to provide consultation to data depositors on how to prepare research data for open access
-to offer advice to data users on how the data in the DATICE repository can be used”

The Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts (CDHA) is a platform for construction, hosting, consultation about development and access to digital databanks in the humanities and arts, and for research based on digital databanks. The databanks cover both language resources, i.e. texts and languages, and resources in other formats, such as images, videos, 3D models, sounds and visual arts in digital formats. CDHA will coordinate international collaboration in digital research infrastructure in humanities and arts, and work in the spirit of providing open access to research data.

Since its existence, the Brenner Archive Research Institute has endeavored to expand its collections in order to create or expand the basis for research projects. Normally, this is done through donations, but if it is not possible otherwise, also through purchases.

The University Bibliography is the central publication directory of Duisburg-Essen University – here the publication activities of all university members are recorded online. The University Bibliography is run by the university library and based on the Open-Source-Framework MyCoRe.

DuEPublico is the institutional repository of the University of Duisburg-Essen for depositing and distributing electronic publications, dissertations and theses with Open Access to full text. Also, e-learning material intended for re-use (Open Educational Resources, OER) can be made available under a free license. DuEPublico is driven by the university library and based on the repository framework MyCoRe and additional Open Source components.

Mass spectrometry is an analytical tool useful for measuring the mass-to-charge ratio (m/z) of one or more molecules present in a sample. These measurements can often be used to calculate the exact molecular weight of the sample components as well. Typically, mass spectrometers can be used to identify unknown compounds via molecular weight determination, to quantify known compounds, and to determine structure and chemical properties of molecules.

NMR is an abbreviation for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. An NMR instrument allows the molecular structure of a material to be analyzed by observing and measuring the interaction of nuclear spins when placed in a powerful magnetic field. For the analysis of molecular structure at the atomic level, electron microscopes and X-ray diffraction instruments can also be used, but the advantages of NMR are that sample measurements are non-destructive and there is less sample preparation required. Fields of application include biology, foods, and chemistry, as well as new fields such as battery films and organic electroluminescence, which are improving and developing at remarkable speed. NMR has become an indispensable analysis tool in cutting-edge science and technology fields.

The Scientific and Technical Resources Service (SRCiT) provides technical support to the research, development and transfer activity that takes place at the URV and also to the companies and institutions.

This is a state-of-the-art project that makes analysis protocols available to the scientific community and professionals using the most advanced infrastructures in the field of mass spectrometry. These are three state-of-the-art high-resolution mass spectrometers, which allow the detection, confirmation of organic compounds and the analysis of unknowns in different types of samples. Fields of application range from metabolomics to the environment and industry. The three technologies that the HRMS CATSUD-URV Platform incorporates are: GC-HRMS (Exactive GC is a high-resolution system consisting of a mass spectrometer and a gas chromatograph); UHPLC-HRMS (Orbitrap ID-X Mass Spectrometer ™ Tribrid ™ is an integrated mass spectrometer consisting of the combination of three mass analyzers (quadrupole, a double cell ion trap and the Orbitrap) with dual fragmentation techniques (CID and HCD), coupled to the Vanquish high-resolution liquid chromatograph Flex UHPLC, for very sensitive and ultra-high resolution MSn analysis); MALDI-HRMS (Exploris 120 Mass Spectrometer from Thermo Scientific with a Spectroglyph MALDI source, combines a high-resolution mass analyzer for accurate mass detection, coupled to a matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization source (MALDI))

This is an innovative project that aims to provide the scientific community and professionals with advanced infrastructures for work and analysis at the nanometer or lower scale. The Platform uses two high-resolution electron microscopy equipment that are integrated into the Microscopy and Nanometric Techniques Area. The two technologies that make up the CATSUD-URV Nanotechnology Platform are: High-resolution scanning electron microscope (FESEM-FIB) and FETEM – Transmission Electron Microscope of atomic resolution.

Equipment of the archaeology laboratory for cleaning finds, restoration of ceramics, preservation of metals and glass, records of finds, drawing and photographic documentation of finds.

Supercomputer cluster equiped with programs to run theoretical chemistry calculations

Development, testing of biological effectiveness and registration (commercial use) of synthetic phytohormone derivatives (alone or in a mixture with fertilizers). We are equipped with the following mechanization: plot drill machine, combine harvesters, mechanization for fertilizing and spraying the plots, laboratory for seed and plants preparation. The cultivated area is 5 ha and we have experienced staff for verifying the biological activity of substances in field experiments on wheat, barley, corn, canola and other crops

The instrument allows performing reactions under microwave irradiation at temperatures and pressures up to 300 °C and 300 psi in either 10 mL or 35 mL sealed vessels at 0.2-7.0 mL and 2.0-25.0 mL scale, respectively.

The equipment is suitable for the transfer of technologies from laboratory scale to semi-pilot and pilot scale production, as well as for the large scale syntheses of up to 500 g of products. Equipment consists of duplicated glass reactor 10 L with accessories (anchor stirrer with speed control, thermometer (PT 100), cooler, distillation flask), extractor (liquid – liquid; glass; 20 L; propeller with speed control) and isolation filter for solid products (stainless steel with PTFE inert coating).

NMR spectrometer is dedicated to liquid samples measurement and can be equipped with 5mm Royal Probe with automatic tuning and matching or 3mm BBI probe. Auto sampler for 24 samples together with Royal Probe allows continuous measurement for 24/7 at room or elevated temperature.

High performance liquid chromatographer for analytical and semi-preparative purifications

NMR spectrometer can be used for measurement of liquid samples as well as for solid state NMR. For liquid samples is used 5mm HFX-Royal Probe, which allows to measure 19F NMR with 1H decoupling. The samples can be measured in temperature range from -100°C to + 140°C. For solid state NMR, 4mm VT HXMAS probe is used at room or elevated temperature.

Prusa 3D printer to make 3D prints out of PLA, PETG and ABS plastics out of models (e.g. molecules)

We have long and succesful experience with isolation and cultivation of several animal and human primary cell cultures such as neonatal rat cardiomyocytes, rat and human hepatocytes, human keratinocytes, human umbilical cord endothelial cells, human dermal and gingival fibroblasts

Used to study the chemical composition of all kinds of samples (gas, liquid, solid), such as natural products, organic and inorganic pigments, or minerals – suitable for qualitative and quantitative analyses in both far- and mid-infrared regions

Used to identify the chemical composition of the solid or liquid samples, e.g. waxes, gels, pastes, filaments, pieces of wood and other natural samples, minerals, and metal pieces, etc. – suitable for qualitative and quantitative analyses

This phantom allows testing of X-ray based imaging techniques (including CT).

Ultrasound machine suitable for whole-body imaging

The Necropsy room is equipped with a big necroscopic table (cm 248×129) provided with an elevator system and four small necroscopic tables (cm 130×50). All tables comply with biosafety and biosecurity standard. A refrigerated room (+2°C) cm 281x108x235 and a freezing room (- 20°C) cm 281x108x235 allow storage of large amount of material. The room is equipped with four sinks for washing and disinfection of tools utilized for necropsy activities and an aluminum cabinet allows their preservation. All the procedures are carried out in compliance with the biosafety and biosecurity rules. A laboratory hood allows the storage and processing in complete biosafety of the tissues taken during the necropsy for the execution of collateral examinations (histological, bacteriological, toxicological examination).

The Center for Instrumental Analysis is the is the shared instrument facility for chemical analysis at the Department of Pharmacy. It includes 3 high-field NMR spectrometers (700 MHz, liquid 1H/13C/15N 5 mm cryo-probe or CP-MAS probe; 600 MHz, 1H/13C/15N/31P 5 mm cryo-probe, SampleJet autosampler; 400 MHz, 1H/BB 5 mm inverse probe), one Linear Trap LC-MS system, one Triple Quadrupole LC-MS system, one Single Quadrupole GC-MS system. Purchase of a high-resolution Orbitrap instrument is planned.

Share Journals is the platform for the management and publication of open access scientific journals on behalf of the SHARE Interuniversity Consortium. Share Journals has been created by the University of Naples “Federico II “- Centre for Libraries. Since 2015 hosts the research publications of the Universities participating in the SHARE alliance, which involves the collaboration of 11 Universities of Southern Italy. Research publications are submitted to a double – blind peer – review process and are published in Italian and in English.

The IT platform is employed to publish and disseminate e-book series in Open Access. Share Books has been created by the University of Naples “Federico II “- Centre for Libraries. Since 2015 hosts the research publications of the Universities participating in the SHARE alliance, which involves the collaboration of 11 Universities of Southern Italy. Research publications are submitted to a double – blind peer – review process and are published in Italian and in English. The University of Naples Federico II owns a digital publishing brand, FedOA Press.

The ‘private cloud infrastructure was installed at the San Giovanni a Teduccio Campus and it is managed using containers and Kubernetes. The resources are divided among nodes for the collection, storage, processing and use of results using Business Intelligence techniques. In particular, the resources include two different types of machines: 1 DGX from Nvidia; 4 machines also equipped with a GPU from Nvidia. In addition, a storage system with about 750 TB of SSD storage has been deployed.

The ICT for Health project of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI) has been selected among 180 national projects of Departments of Excellence funded by MIUR in 2017. The project has a five-year duration (2018-2022) for a funding share of €9,330,030.00 and a co-financing share of €2,506,000.00. The investment in infrastructure of the Departments of Excellence project was also used for the creation of an eHealth Big Data Analytic laboratory based on a public Cloud infrastructure and local datacenter, as well as upgrading the pre-existing infrastructure of DIETI laboratories through the acquisition of new instrumentation. The public Cloud infrastructure, based on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and managed by TIM SPA, is based on AWS Cloud resources for 3 years. The resources are divided among nodes for collecting, storing, processing data, also investigating the outcome through Business Intelligence techniques. In particular, the resources include: 4 hosts (virtual machines running Linux) configured as c5.2xlarge with 8 CPUs and 16 GB RAM; 2 instances of GPU-based virtual machines managed through Amazon SageMaker. 1 Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) cluster equipped with 2 EMR Core (r5d.2xlarge) and 3 EMR Master (r5d.2xlarge) nodes.

X’Pert diffractometer is a state-of-the-art X-ray powder diffractometer, capable of offering a very wide range of analyses and the possibility a complete characterization of geological and ornamental geomaterials. It is equipped with a theta/theta geometry goniometer with 45-position automatic sample changer and fast RTMS X’Celerator detector. Analysis of minerals, rocks, archaeological finds and various materials, both natural and synthetic, can be performed, and both qualitative interpretation and quantitative evaluation by Rietveld method are provided. The samples investigated include mainly silicates and non-silicates from different geological origins, samples from metalliferous deposits from various areas of the world, and metallic and lithoid materials for mineralogical studies of archeometric type.

The In Cell 2200 is an extremely sensitive instrument based on an automated microscope, dedicated to cell imaging that allows the extremely rapid visualization of live and fixed cells, in microplates or slides, but also of subcellular organelles and small microorganisms by using modules for temperature, humidity and CO2 control;

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SERVER – 2 AMD EPYC 7552 48-Core Processor, 190 cores – 900 GB RAM STORAGE – 7 TB NVMe SSD

The FEI Nova NanoSEM scanning electron microscopes combine best-in-class imaging with superb analytical performance in one easy-to-use instrument combining very low kV imaging and analytical capabilities with unique low vacuum performance to meet your most demanding nanoscale characterization requirements. The microscope is equipped with TLD, EDT, BSE and LVD detectors.

The Tecnai G2 S-TWIN is an easy to use transmission electron microscope (TEM) designed to provide high-resolution imaging in materials sciences, nanotechnology and life science applications. Accelerating voltages ranging from 20 kV to 200 kV are ideal for polymers and biological matrices and provide the low voltage capability needed to minimize beam damage to delicate structures. The instrument is equipped with 4K Eagle camera.

This infrastructure is part of the Roadmap to Icelandic infrastructure and is being set-up and therefore not available yet.
i. Cell analysis and sorting facility. In recent years, methods that allow phenotyping of cells have become even more important to understand sub-populations and interactions among cells. Major progress has been made and now instruments have been developed that allow analysis of over 20 molecules per cell. This technology is a real necessity for diverse fields of biosciences, from basic science to the identification of cells needed for cellular therapy.
ii. Imaging facility. Microscopy and imaging have undergone major improvements in the last few years. In addition to constant improvements in conventional, fluorescent, confocal and electric microscopy, now newer instruments have been developed such as multi-photon, light sheet and super-resolution microscopes.
iii. Small animal facility. The University of Iceland Biomedical Center and ArcticLAS have been building a modern infrastructure for small animal experiments. The long-term goal is to move this infrastructure into academic surroundings, improve and expand it.
iv. Genomics facility. Major improvements have occurred in genomic technology, and these techniques are used in more and more bioscience fields. We aim to build a sequencing facility that allows for long range sequencing as well as single cell sequencing approaches.

This infrastructure is part of the Roadmap to Icelandic infrastructure and is being set-up and therefore not available yet. The objective is to build up the necessary infrastructure to strengthen this capability and create new possibilities for research and development within materials science and materials engineering in Iceland. The infrastructure will facilitate synergy between fields, and through that new possibilities, research directions and development in numerous fields including materials science, nanotechnology, solid state physics, advanced manufacturing, large scale production and biomedical technology, and will bring research and development capabilities in Iceland up to high international standards.

EFNGREIN is part of the Roadmap to Icelandic infrastructure and is being set-up and therefore not available yet. The EFNGREIN project aims to advance, maintain and improve access to infrastructure that is necessary for carrying out chemical analysis on a wide variety of molecules. Thus EFNGREIN will support research and development in Icelandic universities, research institutions and industry, within the fields of medicine, pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, the molecular life sciences, biotechnology, medical and chemical engineering, nutrition and chemistry.

The Analytics Core Facility Essen (ACE) is a central facility of the Center of Medical Biotechnology (ZMB) and of the Faculty of Biology of the University Duisburg-Essen. It offers access to state-of-the-art mass spectrometry-based proteomics for internal and external users. The timely technical equipment of the ACE allows us to provide a wide variety of different “bottom-up” and “top-down” proteomics methods. Furthermore, we also develop innovative solutions for project-specific demands. The service comprises all aspects of mass spectrometry-based proteomics, starting from technical advice and project planning, sample preparation and analysis to data analysis, data management and interpretation of results.

The ICCE provides the following services for all ZMB researchers and collaborating groups of the University Duisburg-Essen or external universities and research institutions: (i) state-of-the-art equipment for advanced light microscopy techniques, (ii) technical advice in sample preparation and (iii) support in image analysis

In the “Genomics Core Facility” (GCF) at the Aquatic Ecosystem Research Group, high-throughput analyses are performed to characterize biodiversity. A major focus is on the characterization of animal communities from bulk samples as well as from environmental DNA (eDNA) using the “DNA metabarcoding” technique. In addition, the GCF performs central analyses (metabarcoding, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics) for the DFG Collaborative Research Center 1439 “RESIST”.

The “Central Collection of Algal Cultures (CCAC)” at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) is one of the largest collections of algal cultures worldwide (formerly Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Cologne). The CCAC was formally established in spring 2001, associated with membership in the “World Federation for Culture Collections”. The CCAC is part of the “World Data Centre for Microorganisms” and a member of the “European Culture Collections’ Organisation”.

Centerpiece of the Erwin L. Hahn Institute at the University of Duisburg-Essen is a whole-body ultrahigh field (UHF) MAGNETOM Terra 7-Tesla MRI System from Siemens Healthcare operating at a magnetic field strength of 7 Tesla. The 7 Tesla UHF MRI system provides a much higher sensitivity for structural and functional measurements in the human body. Thus, cross-sectional images with excellent image contrast and very high detail resolution can be produced.

The services of the Genomics and Transcriptomics Facility comprise genomic analyses via next generation sequencing, microarrays and real-time PCR. These include particularly the following tasks: consultation for project planning and selection of the appropriate method; consultation for and conduct of sample preparation and data analyses; technical support; quality control of the samples and intermediate products; development, establishment and optimization of methods.

The Light Microscopy Unit of the Imaging Center Essen runs state-of-the-art widefield, confocal, superresolution, multiphoton and light-sheet microscopes and a fast slide scanner. It also operates an S2 cell sorter, a whole-body fluorescence and luminescence imager and a pre-clinical ultrasound. The Electron Microscopy Unit operates a 120 kV TEM with tomography options and a dual-beam SEM that can be used for FIB/SEM tomography, array tomography and cryo-SEM. Comprehensive sample preparation equipment is available for both imaging modalities.

The West German Biobank Essen stores blood, blood derivates, urine as well as FFPE and snap frozen tissue. Besides the storage, administration and provision of samples, the WBE offers further services: production of tissue microarrays, slide scanning and extraction of nucleic acids. Before samples and data can be provisioned, a proposal has to be submitted to the scientific advisory board. The board reviews each proposal and consults further experts if necessary.

The motion analysis system with 8 Vicon Bonita 10 cameras is a system for marker-based motion detection. It consists of: (1) 8 high-speed infrared cameras that telemetrically capture the position of reflective markers in calibrated space; (2) force plates that measure ground reaction forces; (3) a computer system that synchronizes the measurement equipment and stores the data; (4) software for marker data tracking and biomechanical modeling; (5) an additional normal light high-speed camera; (6) a module for synchronization with an EMG measurement device. Typical application is the measurement and biomechanical modeling of human motion as used in sports science, exercise science and medicine.

Doppler Wind Lidar (Halo Photonics Stream Line XR) to measure wind and aerosol structure in the atmospheric boundary layer.

The research site in Obermieming, a red pine forest at an altitude of 980 m a.s.l., has been under construction since 2018 by a consortium of the Institutes of Ecology, Botany, Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences and Geography. The equipment of this research site includes an air-conditioned instrumentation container with power supply and wireless internet connection, a 30 m high measurement tower for micrometeorological measurements and a 6 m high walk-in tower for ecophysiological measurements. The towers are equipped with a wide range of sensors for quantifying micrometeorological and ecological processes.

The electron beam microprobe is used for qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis of solids with a spatial resolution in the range of not less than approx. 5 µm and can detect elements in the atomic number range Z=5-92 in the version available at the Institute of Mineralogy of the University of Innsbruck (W or LaB6 emitter, 5 WDX spectrometers, 1 EDX detector, 1 CL detector) and quantify them depending on the concentration range

Approx. 1000 m² water construction laboratory, equipped with two pumps with total capacity (Q) of 400l/s, one pump with Q=100l/s, one pump with Q=50l/s, high pressure pump Q=50l/s (head=80m), submersible pump Q=92l/s with head 11m

The NanoLab of the University of Innsbruck (NanoLab Innsbruck) was installed in 2008 and has been continuously expanded since then. It includes microscopy, analytics and mechanical materials testing as well as special areas such as thin film technology and fire protection. It is part of the research initiative “Advanced Materials” of the University of Innsbruck and is located at the “Campus Technik”, Innsbruck.

Devices and sensors for the analysis of stable carbon isotopes in CO2 and methane.

Induction Plasma System Teksphero-15: The Teksphero-15 enables spheroidizing of powder feedstock.
System features:
– Inductively coupled plasma generated by a signal generator with a power of 15 kW at a frequency range of 2 – 5 MHz.
– Spheroidizing reactor is suitable for use with reactive metals
– Vacuum powder collection system
– Vibratory powder feeding system
– Cyclone chamber for filtering fine powder Laboratory equipment for selective laser melting 400 W / 1100°C: The laboratory system enables additive (generative) manufacturing of components from materials that cannot be processed with conventional selective laser melting equipment.
Plant features: – Installation space can be heated up to 1100°C – 400 W fiber laser
– Size of build platform: dia. 170 mm
– Low O-content of 10 ppm
– Dual laser melting system AconityMidi
– Build platform heatable up to 800°C – 400 W / 1000 W fiber laser

The “Innsbruck Atmospheric Observatory (IAO) for Environmental Research in Alpine and Urban Terrain” is a core facility for physical and chemical observation of the atmosphere in urban areas embedded in the complex terrain of an alpine valley. The IAO is used for long-term monitoring as well as for targeted measurement campaigns. It consists of a permanent and a mobile infrastructure part.

Interfaces play a crucial role in multiphase systems in terms of material properties due to phase adhesion. Basis for characterization, modification and control of the interface in multiphase systems is thus the key for the development of new materials. The Core Facility “Interface in Hybrid Systems” provides research infrastructure for structural elucidation (chemical and physical) of interfaces in hybrid structures and contributes to establish fundamental understanding of interfacial phenomena.

Contract research and routine investigations in the field of electromagnetic compatibility and antenna measurement technology

Innsbruck Box (or i-Box for short) is a test bed for studying boundary layer processes in highly complex terrain. Designed to be a long-term “reference box” for studying the characteristics of turbulence structure and exchange processes in truly complex topography, i-Box represents an integrated approach combining three-dimensional long-term turbulence observations with high-resolution numerical modeling. Turbulence structure plays an important role in exchange processes of momentum, mass, and energy between the earth’s surface and the atmosphere. These processes are crucial for, e.g., numerical weather forecasts or climate scenario simulations, but are not yet fully understood, particularly not in complex topography. The goal of the project is to form a complete and physically based description of turbulence characteristics in complex terrain.

The Austrian Core Facility for Scientific Core Analysis provides state-of-the-art laboratory infrastructure for logging and scanning of cores obtained by drilling and coring. The facility is equipped with three core scanners: a Geotek Multi-Sensor Core Logger, a Smartcube Camera Image Scanner and a COX Analytics ITRAX XRF core scanner. All scanners make use of non-destructive analysis techniques to provide high-resolution optical, physical-property and element chemical data for scientific core analysis.