CCM Included in Masaryk University Institutional Research Infrastructures

The Czech Collection of Microorganisms has been included among the institutional research infrastructures of Masaryk University. Through this inclusion, our facility further strengthens its role in supporting research, industry, and education by maintaining microbial cultures, distributing reference strains, characterising them, and providing other specialised services to the microbiological research community.

Inclusion in the Research Infrastructures of Masaryk University is the first step in our long-term initiative to join the Czech Republic’s Roadmap of Large Research Infrastructures. We are currently working to establish a consortium of microbiological institutions across the Czech Republic that will integrate their data at the national level and, in the future, with the support of Large Research Infrastructures, provide comprehensive microbiological services and expertise not only for research but also to strengthen links between research and industry.

These activities are expected to result in the Czech Republic, represented by our microbiological consortium, joining the European research infrastructure consortium MIRRI ERIC, of which we hope to become a member in the future with the support of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. This will increase the international collaboration of Czech microbiologists through European consortium projects and facilitate participation in the development of state-of-the-art expertise in microbiological research across Europe.