Our mission
Discover our mission, services and expertise.
Who we are
A large-scale multidisciplinary consortium addressing the users’ needs.
The ISIDORe project is an innovative type of action that is almost entirely dedicated to providing support to scientific communities.
The project assembles the largest and most diverse research and service-providing instrument to study and fight infectious diseases in Europe and beyond, with expertise from structural biology to clinical trials.
Our mission
Increasing European and global capacity to prevent and respond to infectious threats.
The 2002-2004 SARS outbreak, the 2009 swine flu pandemic, the 2013-2016 Western African Ebola virus epidemic, the 2015-2016 Zika virus epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 monkeypox multi-country outbreak, up to the very recent Andes hantavirus and Bundibugyo ebolavirus outbreaks: the last two decades have demonstrated that the emergence, re-emergence and globalization of infectious diseases continue to be a tangible reality.
The world, including the European Union, has nonetheless shown stark vulnerability when it comes to the management of epidemic and pandemic diseases.
To improve Europe’s capacity and readiness to those threats, advance the development of the appropriate countermeasures and increase resilience, the ISIDORe project, now at its second round, supports preparedness and responsiveness to infectious threats, by giving scientific communities access to the whole extent of our state-of-the-art facilities, cutting-edge services, advanced equipment, technologies and expertise.
ISIDORe by numbers
Partners
60
Services
400+
Countries involved
20
Funding, million euros
10.5
Duration, years
3
WHAT WE offer
Free-of-charge access to ISIDORe’s capacities
We provide free-of-charge transnational access (TNA) to a comprehensive portfolio of high-quality research resources and laboratory services that supportstudies or research proposals from external users, such as researchers from academia, public health sector, private sector etc.
The users interested to ISIDORe services will apply to specific call for proposals. Proposals will be subjected to independent peer review; in case of selection, free access to the ISIDORe resources will occur either in person or remotely, through implementation at one of the partners laboratories.
Trainings
The ISIDORe partners and their collaborators offer a portfolio of training opportunities that are consistent with, but not limited to, the ISIDORe objective of enhancing European and global capacity to prevent and respond to infectious threats.