The project has received a wide support from national and regional policy makers, regional stakeholders, academia, and industrial partners. This support was formalized in letters of support, the project received from the partners listed below.

List of supporters

 

The project has received strong endorsement from the highest levels of science governance in the Czech Republic and Germany as evidenced by the letters from the deputy Prime Minister for Science Research and Innovation Pavel Belobradek and Saxon Minister for Science Eva Maria Stange.

The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science and the Czech Academy of Sciences fully encourage the ARIB Teaming for excellence initiative as demonstrated by the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the presidents of the societies on 24th October 2016 (press release).

The willingness of the Institute of Molecular Genetics CAS and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics to engage in a long-lasting collaboration is documented by the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the directors of both institutes on 9th November 2016.

President of the Czech Academy of Sciences Jiri Drahos and president of the Max Planck Society for Advancement of Science Martin Stratmann signing the Memorandum of Understanding (photo: Czech Academy of Sciences)
Saxon Minister for Science Eva Maria Stange visiting the BIOCEV on 9 September 2016 (next to her Pavel Martasek, BIOCEV director, and Radislav Sedlacek, CCP director and ARIB project coordinator)

Letters of support

National and regional policy makers:

  • Minister of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (in charge of research policy and ERDF/ESF projects)
  • Deputy Prime-Minister for Science, Research and Innovation of the Czech Republic
  • Saxon State Minister for Higher Education, Research and Arts

Academic institutions:

  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Max Planck Institute of of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
  • Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Technical University Dresden

Regional stakeholders:

  • STAR Research and Innovation Cluster Dolní Břežany
  • Central Bohemian Innovation Centre (SIC)
  • Council of the Competitiveness of the Central Bohemian Region
  • Vestec municipality
  • Local Action Group Dolnobřežansko
  • InnoCrystal Incubator (Prague Innovation Centre)

Research Infrastructures and European Centres of Excellence:

  • Czech Centre for Phenogenomics
  • CZ-OpenScreen (National Infrastructure for Chemical Biology)
  • Czech-BioImaging (National Research Infrastructure for Biological and Medical Imaging)
  • CEITEC (Central European Institute of Technology)
  • IT4Innovation (National Supercomputing Center)

Small and medium-sized biotech companies and other industrial partners:

  • Andor (Oxford Instruments company)
  • Apigenex
  • Exbio
  • OptiXs
  • Pragolab
  • Smart Brain
  • Carl Zeiss