Three new pan-European biological science research facilities were announced earlier this month as part of the revised European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures. France’s Infrastructure for Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems (ANAEE), the UK’s Infrastructure for Systems Biology-Europe (ISBE), and France and Germany’s EU Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure (MIRRI) will be funded by the EU and member states. The ANAEE will study how ecosystems react to environmental changes and develop applicable management methods. The facility is slated to open in 2015 at a price of €210 million ($295 million). The ISBE’s goal will be to further unite life sciences with information technology and system science. The €300 million facility should open in 2017. The MIRRI intends to improve researchers’ access to microbial resources to examine infections that pertain to humans and crops. It is expected to be operational by 2014 and will cost €190 million. When finished, the facilities will be accessible by EU researchers and, in some instances, researchers outside of the EU .

Source: EU