Science is a truly international affair and international collaboration is therefore an essential part of the NGI strategy.
Activities
Visiting Scientist Stipend programme
The programme offers top researchers associated with one of the NGI Genomics Centres an opportunity to perform research at a foreign top Institute. The programme also enables foreign top researchers to come to the Netherlands for a research project at one of the NGI Genomics Centres.
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Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium
The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium (PGSC) is an international group of academic and industrial organisations that are committed to to elucidate the complete DNA sequence of the potato genome by the end of 2010.
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Canadian-Dutch collaboration on Brassica research
A new initiative for Centre for BioSystems Genomics is the collaboration with Canadian plant genomics experts through a jointly-funded research programme on Brassica spp. The programme is carried out in collaboration with the Plant Biotechnology Institute and Genome Canada.
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ERA-Net Plant Genomics
ERA-PG aims to boost Europe to world-wide leadership in plant genomics. ERA-PG is a joint effort involving 16 countries and the network’s coordination activities are funded by the European Commission.
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Inno-Net Valor
In 2006, NGI joined INNO-Net “Valor”. Valor compares valorisation practices in fifteen Member States of the EU and enhances the exchange of good practices.
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Sino-Dutch Centre for Preventive and Personalised Medicine
This joint effort aims to bridge the holistic and personalised approach of traditional Chinese medicine and the upcoming systems biology approach in contemporary life sciences research.
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ERA-Net for Systems Biology
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