Transnational access to collections and other ressources at copenhagen biosystematics centre

Project Information

ACCESS TO COBICE

Grant agreement ID: HPRI-CT-2001-00129

Project closed

Start date 1 January 2003

End date 29 February 2004

Funded under

• Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002)

Total cost € 408 333,00

EU contribution € 408 333,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN
Denmark

Objective

Description:

The Copenhagen Biosystematics Centre (COBICE) at the University of Copenhagen comprises the Zoological, Geological and Botanical Museums, the Botanical Garden and the Evolutionary Biology, Zoomorphology, Phycology, Botanical Molecular Systematics laboratories. The collections at COBICE comprise about 20 million specimens, including, i.a. 75,000 unique type specimens - Arctic, especially Greenlandic, and Danish animals - deep-sea animals - whales - South American Quaternary mammal fossils - the World's largest databases on African terrestrial vertebrates - tissue collections for DNA analysis, esp. birds (3,000 species) and African mammals - fossils from Greenland - mo-clay Tertiary fossils - plants from Greenland, Denmark, Thailand and NE Africa. Equipment available at COBICE includes light, fluorescence, transmission electron and scanning electron microscopes, DNA sequencing facilities, X-ray apparatus, and image analysis system.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.

• natural sciences › biological sciences › microbiology › phycology
• natural sciences › biological sciences › genetics › DNA
• natural sciences › biological sciences › zoology › mammalogy › cetology
• natural sciences › biological sciences › evolutionary biology
• natural sciences › physical sciences › optics › microscopy › electron microscopy

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Programme(s)

• FP5-HUMAN POTENTIAL - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002)

Topic(s)

• 1.4.1.-2. - Access to Research Infrastructures

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

LFC - Access to Research Infrastructures

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 15,Universitetsparken 15 ; 2100 KOEPENHAGEN ; Denmark
• Total cost: No data