European Culture Collections' Organisation
Dear colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that registration for the new edition of the MOOC on biobanking is open and completely free. The MOOC is recorded in English, with French and Spanish subtitles. It will be broadcasted from March 15, 2023, until May 17, 2023. Once registered, the videos remain available after the end of the broadcasting, which means that you can follow the […]
ECCO XLI’s varied scientific program will be combined with a MALDI-TOF training and the celebrations for BCCM’s 40th anniversary. More info and registration will soon be available on: https://bccm.belspo.be/ecco-xliSave the date!
The Micoteca da Universidade do Minho (MUM), in collaboration with the Chilean Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO), the IS_MIRRI21 EU project (https://ismirri21.mirri.org/), MIRRI-ERIC (https://www.mirri.org/), the Portuguese microBiological Resource Centre Network /MIRRI-PT Node (Pt-mBRCN, https://mbrcn.pt/), the Portuguese Society of Microbiology (SPM, https://spmicrobiologia.wordpress.com) and the Portuguese Society of Biotechnology (SPBT, https://www.spbt.pt), is very pleased to announce that the next 15th International Conference on […]
In 2023 CCAP will once again be delivering their annual CCAP CPD course online, via MS Teams. The course is aimed at students, technicians, early career researchers, industry professionals and algae enthusiasts. The course will run on Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th April 2023 from 9:00 to 16:45 GMT each […]
CABI has been carrying out a study for FAO on the impact of Digital Sequence Information (DSI) and equitable sharing of benefits arising from its use and it might be of interest to ECCO, WFCC and UKBRCN members to join the upcoming Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Global Workshop on Digital […]
We received the sad notice from CCUG Curator Ed Moore, that Enevolf Falsen, former curator of the CCUG collection, passed in January in Gothenburg, Sweden. Enevold was the founder and first Curator of CCUG from 1968 until his retirement in 2004. Many of our colleagues in the ECCO community will […]
One of the co-founders and first president of ECCO has passed away. She died on the 27th of January, at the age of 93. We owe the very existence of ECCO to visionary scientists like Barbara Kirsop. Joined by a small group of colleague curators, she set up an informal […]
The long-awaited update of the first guidance document of 2016 was adopted and released by the European Commission on 14 December 2020. The new Guidance document C(2020)8759 (with Annexes I and II) incorporates and complements the previous document, and was again developed in consultation with stakeholders from all important sectors, […]
In answer to a request from the CBD Secretariat, the new ECCO model documents for MDA and MTA have been added to the ABS-Clearing House information resource ‘Model Contractual Clauses, Codes of Conduct, Guidelines, Best Practices and/or Standard’ on October 23, 2020 (ABSCH-A19A20-SCBD-252690-1). These models have been published in Annex […]
17 September is International Microorganism Day, an opportunity to promote the diversity and variety of microorganisms and a way to encourage everyone to recognize and celebrate the many ways microscopic organisms are important in human health, culture and, throughout our daily lives.
