Funding Opportunities
Bring EMBRC Services to your Research
Accessing EMBRC services can speed up scientific discoveries in marine biology and ecology.
Explore the funding resources below to find and prioritise the option that best fit your particular circumstances to secure access to 560+ world-class services from marine stations and research organisations across Europe, and accelerate your research.
With EMBRC services, you can:
- Empower your research with top-notch facilitiescand technology
- Perform onsite or remotely
- Get expertise from experienced researchers and technical staff
- Drive scientific innovation, competitiveness and Blue Growth in Europe
EMBRC service fees are based on the research project requirements, including the scope, number of resources used …
Accessing EMBRC services can speed up scientific discoveries in marine biology and ecology.
Explore the funding resources below to find and prioritise the option that best fit your particular circumstances to secure access to 560+ world-class services from marine stations and research organisations across Europe, and accelerate your research.
With EMBRC services, you can:
- Empower your research with top-notch facilitiescand technology
- Perform onsite or remotely
- Get expertise from experienced researchers and technical staff
- Drive scientific innovation, competitiveness and Blue Growth in Europe
EMBRC service fees are based on the research project requirements, including the scope, number of resources used and the duration of use within our infrastructure network. Researchers can generally access data at no cost.
Payment for EMBRC services is processed upon project completion.
Browse our service catalogue and contact our Liaison Officers to get a detailed cost estimate.
Funding EMBRC services
Funding to access EMBRC services must be secured in advance by:
- Collecting own funds
- Applying to EU, national or international grants (EU instruments, foundations, national publicfund, …)
- Applying to Transnational Access (TA) programmes
Finding Financial Aid through Transnational Access Programmes
At EMBRC, we support access requests from scientists leading ground-breaking research that contribute to our mission of accelerating marine biology and ecology research.
Conducting this research comes with significant budget challenges, that’s why EMBRC helps scientists access its services through Transnational Access (TA) programmes. If accepted for TA support, scientists can access EMBRC services at no cost.
Researchers can apply for Transnational Access funding through TA-funded calls. The research project must align with the subjects or missions of the EU project and the general eligibility criteria of the TA programme.
TA-funded Calls to Access
EMBRC Services
Transnational Access Programme
Led by the European Commission, the Transnational Access (TA) programme facilitates researchers’ mobility across Europe and foster communication and collaboration between networks. This funding programme also enables cost-sharing approaches and sharedexpertise within the research community.
The TA funding programme provides researchers with complimentary access to :
services listed in EMBRC’s catalogue, technical and scientific support, administrative and logistical assistance, hands-on training required to use EMBRC’s services.
- Access to EMBRC’s services
- Travel expenses (one round trip/person)
- Subsistence (meals and accommodation)
- Shipping costs of project materials from the access provider’s facility tothe home institutions
TA provides access to services through:
- Physical access: on-site use of services and equipment.
- Virtual access: access via virtual networks (e.g., metagenomics data).Services are offered following Open Science and FAIR principles.
- Remote access is provided through
- Experiments conducted at the service provider’s location without physical presence.
- Shipping of biological materials based on user requests.
- Topic alignment:
Research must align with the specific mission or subject of the call.
- Transnational requirement:
Applicants must use services in countries other than their home institution.*
*Exception: This condition does not apply for services requests submitted to an ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) such as EMBRC-ERIC, AnaEE-ERIC, EuroBioImaging-ERIC, EU-Openscreen-ERIC,LifeWatch-ERIC, or MIRRI-ERIC.
- Feasibility
The scientific plan must be feasible with resources available in the marine site.
- Scientific quality:
The project must be innovative and address a significant scientific question.
The quality of the proposals submitted is evaluated following a process of peer review
- FAIR data compliance: The results of the project must follow the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles.
