INTERCEPTOR (INTERnational Cooperation of high containment research infrastructures: from Epidemic Preparedness TO Response), a consortium with key HCLs from Europe and across the world, will focus on access provision to HCLs, enhancement of the human capital of HCLs, including in biorisk management, critical resources sharing, harmonisation and interoperability. The proposed actions will help ensure broader access to state-of-the-art high containment facilities, while respecting the necessary biosecurity and biosafety constraints, and promote the establishment of a sustainable global network of high containment research infrastructures.
A coalition of 14 partners representing 14 countries, the INTERCEPTOR project, Horizon Europe funded project, will be lasting 3 years and has a budget of 1.5 million euro.
Consortium
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Project Coordination
ERINHA is the Coordinator of the INTERCEPTOR project.
Activities
The INTERCEPTOR project is organized into 5 Workpackages – working groups dedicated to a specific set of activities.
This WP, led by the coordinator ERINHA, aims to ensure effective and efficient coordination and management of the project, as well as proper internal and external communication and dissemination.
The aim of this WP is to strengthen HCLs’ bio-risk management through sharing of knowledge and skills, and working towards harmonisation and standardisation of related policies and processes. This will support increased interoperability between research infrastructures and support easier exchanges of scientists and HCL staff between laboratories as a result of harmonised policies and processes.
Basic knowledge about the availability of critical resources in HCLs is currently lacking. Enhancing collaboration and filling these gaps would facilitate exchanges and capacity building in the event of future pandemics and/or biological disasters. In addition, it would improve the support provided to users by ensuring that the HC service offer can be modulated/expanded through facilitated exchange of these critical resources between HCLs.
The objectives of this work package consist of: (i) Understanding the currently available service offer, and access mechanisms, at the international HCLs within the INTERCEPTOR consortium, (ii) Explore a common catalogue of services and joint service provision, (iii) Survey the service offer and service provision mechanisms of international HCLs outside INTERCEPTOR for potential inclusion in a future global HCL network, and (iv) Explore the establishment of joint access mechanisms between ERINHA and other HC RIs of the consortium.
INTERCEPTOR, as a first formalized action proposing coordinated service provision across European and international HC RIs, aims at effective transcontinental cooperation, bringing a real-added value to scientific communities, HCL operators, and policy-making and funding bodies. The sustainability and further extension of the INTERCEPTOR network is the main objective of this WP.
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