04-Jul-2022
Five years ago, on 4 July 2017, Instruct was awarded “ERIC” status by the European Commission, officially becoming a European Research Infrastructure Consortium!
ERICs are Research Infrastructures with European interest, operating on a not for profit basis. They are funded by subscription from member countries and organisations, and are governed by member representatives.
Since achieving ERIC status in 2017, Instruct-ERIC has adapted and evolved over the years. This is further evidenced by the hiring of a new Director and Hub Coordinator in 2022; Prof Harald Schwalbe and Dr Silke Schumacher, respectively.
Director Harald Schwalbe said of the anniversary: "Becoming a European Infrastructure Consortium, as work intense as this has been in the past five years, has changed the landscape for integrated structural biology. Instruct-ERIC is now a globally recognised leader in integrated structural biology. Its members develop technologies in all structural methods, provide access to their facilities, provide the structural community resources, and, where needed, help with data acquisition, analysis and interpretation. With the second 5-year period, Instruct-ERIC strives to stay successful to serve the needs of structural biology as a key, indispensable technique in the life sciences."
Instruct is awarded ERIC status at a special ceremony by the European Commission.
2022 is also the tenth anniversary of Instruct's establishment on the European Research Infrastructure Preparatory Phase of the ESFRI roadmap, signed in April 2012. Instruct took the opportunity to celebrate this at the Biennial Conference in May 2022.
Instruct-ERIC celebrates 10 years of the research infrastructure at the 2022 Biennial Conference.
Instruct’s current members are: Belgium, Czech Republic, EMBL, Finland, France, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and United Kingdom. Observer: Greece.
