Braga (Portugal), 27 September 2023 – In a dynamic networking event at the SIMBA final consortium meeting, Nelson Manuel Viana Silva Lima, representing MIRRI-ERIC, delivered a compelling online presentation. The networking session provided an invaluable platform for sister projects to share insights and foster collaborative efforts.
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– European Research Infrastructure Consortium (MIRRI-ERIC), the pan-European
distributed Research Infrastructure for the preservation, study, provision and valorisation of
microbial resources and biodiversity, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ana
Portugal Melo as its new Executive Director.
MIRRI has reported today on the key implementation and operational advances it has achieved in 2021-2022.
Please read the full news release here.
The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) has launched a survey to identify ways to strengthen the depth of cooperation between European Research Infrastructures (European RIs are those open to users from countries other than where the infrastructure is located) and industry as RI users, collaborators or component providers contributing to their sustainability and impact.
MIRRI kindly invites its industrial partners to respond to this survey, which will remain open for a few weeks here: https://www.1ka.si/coop.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation!
MIRRI is pleased and proud to announce that it will take part in two European projects: MICROBE, led by AIT, and BIOINDUSTRY 4.0, led by IBISBA.
For more information, please read the full news here.
MIRRI-ERIC is hiring its Executive Director.
For more informations, please read the vacancy details here.
On 14 December 2022, MIRRI inaugurated its new headquarters premises, located at the campus of Gualtar of the University of Minho, in Braga, Portugal.
The inauguration ceremony started with interventions by the IS_MIRRI21 Project Coordinator and MIRRI-PT Coordinator, Nelson Lima, the Executive Director of MIRRI, Luís Soares, the Chair of the MIRRI Assembly of Members, Marleen Bosschaerts, the Mayor of Braga, Ricardo Rio, the Rector of the University of Minho, Rui Vieira de Castro, the President of the Foundation for Science and Technology, Madalena Alves, and Portugal Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Elvira Fortunato.
The ceremony later proceeded with the unveiling of the inauguration plaques of the MIRRI-ERIC Headquarters.
MIRRI inaugurates today, 14 December 2022, its new headquarters premises, located at the campus of Gualtar of the University of Minho, in Braga, Portugal.
Read the full news here.
The project “Strengthening the MIRRI Italian Research Infrastructure for Sustainable Bioscience and Bioeconomy” (SUS-MIRRI.IT) is launched on 14 November 2022, as part of the actions oriented towards Italy’s membership (The country is currently a prospective Member) of MIRRI-ERIC.
Read the full news realease here.
MIRRI has participated in the EU Bioeconomy Conference and in the International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI 2022), which took place on 6-7 and 19-21 October 2022, respectively.
In both participations, MIRRI had a virtual showcase space featuring its activities and several of its offers to the Bioscience and the Bioindustry communities, including:
– MIRRI Microbial Resources & Data;
– MIRRI Microbial-Related General Services & Application-Specific Services;
– MIRRI’s Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda 2021-2030;
– Becoming a MIRRI Member/Observer/Partner.
