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EBB is a European Marine Biological Resource Centre project ( EMBRC-ERIC), which main goal is to facilitate sustainable access to marine biodiversity, its associated data, and extractable products for local and international academia and industry users, and to incentivize biodiversity conservation in coastal ecosystems by promoting compliance with Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) regulations derived from the Nagoya Protocol.
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Organised / Attended Events
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EBB partners at the project’s Kick-Off Meeting in Vigo
Kick-off meeting: launching of the EBB project
21-22 November 2017, Vigo, Spain
The kick-off meeting (KOM) of the EBB project was held at Vigo’s Port Authority premises, in Vigo (Spain), on 21st and 22nd of November 2017. The two-day meeting started with a general presentation of the project, carried out by Antonio Villanueva, project coordinator and responsible for marine research infrastructures at the University of Vigo, after which each partner was presented. Furthermore, the work plan for the coming months was established and the main roles and responsibilities of the partners were defined.
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Workshop:
Practical steps for facilitating the use of marine biological resources for commercial R&D in the context of the new Access and Benefit Sharing legal framework (Nagoya protocol)
16 May 2018, Plouzané, France
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This one-day workshop was organised in the scope of the EBB project and the activities of the European research infrastructure EMBRC-ERIC as a marine bioresource provider. The aim of the workshop was to connect companies, marine culture collections/biobanks and ABS national contact points. The knowledge of companies on the ABS framework was to be analyzed, together with the future needs on access to marine genetic resources (MGRs), bringing them to a higher level of awareness. As a final outcome, the workshop should produce a series of flagship use-cases proposed by the companies to be beta-tested in the context of the EBB project in the light of the ABS framework.
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Workshop:
Implementing best practice guidelines for Access and Benefit Sharing
17 May 2018, Plouzané, France
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Following a previous workshop with focus on the MBRs commercial aspects, this workshop aimed to discuss the practicalities regarding ABS compliance, ensuring that all EBB project partners were familiar with Best Practice Guidelines, implementation procedures and the process for retrospective ABS compliance for existing genetic resources in collections. The workshop identified differences in national legislation and discussed the ramifications of including collections in an EU registry. The event was attended by representatives from EBB project partner institutions, as well as Competent National Authorities on ABS from France and Spain and other experts.
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EMBRC-ERIC promoted to landmark on the ESFRI ROADMAP 2018
Upon conclusion of a one-year process of updating its Roadmap, ESFRI promoted EMBRC-ERIC to Landmark, world-class Research Infrastructures for EU research excellence and competiveness.
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The European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC-ERIC) was launched!
On the 19th of June 2018, the European Marine Biological Resource Centre celebrated its adoption as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (EMBRC-ERIC) and the onset of its operational phase.
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Ocean Business 2018
18-20 September 2018
Lisbon, Portugal
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BLUEandGREEN Legacy Conference
1 October 2018
Matosinhos, Portugal
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BIOMARINE
2-4 October 2018
Brest, France
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Sea Tech Week
8-12 October 2018
Brest, France
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EBB General Meeting
8-9 November 2018
Matosinhos, Portugal
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Business2Sea 2018
14-16 November 2018
Porto, Portugal
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12th Advanced Phytoplankton Course (APC12)
19 May - 8 July 2019
(applications before September 1, 2018)
Roscoff, France
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This is our first newsletter, a publication where you can find information about the project European Marine Biological Resource Centre Biobank (EBB). EBB is funded through the Interregional Cooperation Programme in the Atlantic Area (INTERREG: Atlantic Area) funding scheme.
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