On 9 October, Edith Heard, EMBL General Director, and Rosa Domínguez, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) President, signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
On 9 October, EMBL and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding that paves the way for stronger collaboration between these two leading research institutions.
In the framework of European cooperation in science and research, this new agreement seeks to stimulate mutually beneficial scientific and academic exchange and collaboration in the life sciences, and in particular to ensure greater connectivity, availability of scientific data, use of shared key technology, and circulation of talent.
The existing areas of collaboration and ties between the main public research agency in Spain and Europe's flagship laboratory for the life sciences are manifold, and are destined to grow and thrive in the future. The memorandum is expected to further expand the EMBL collaborative network in Spain and integrate CSIC research into EMBL's dynamic scientific ecosystem.
"CSIC's and EMBL's cutting-edge research will be boosted by a stronger and more structured cooperation between the two research institutions," says Professor Edith Heard, EMBL Director General, who attended the signing ceremony in Madrid together with Professor Ángela Nieto, EMBL Council delegate for Spain and CSIC Research Professor, and Plamena Markova, Head of EMBL International Relations."The agreement highlights the growing role EMBL will play in collaborating with and supporting the Spanish science ecosystem."
"This agreement will enlarge and strengthen the existing collaboration between EMBL and CSIC," say CSIC President Rosa Menéndez and Elena Domínguez, CSIC Vice-president for International Relations. "Together, they have already taken part in 30 projects within the European Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation."
