for Biological Arms Control
Projects / Current Projects
CBRN Centers of Excellence
The Research
Group for Biological Arms Control is partner of the CBRN Centers of
Excellence initiative of the European Union. We contribute to the
International Network of universities and institutes for raising
awareness on dual-use concerns in bio-technology (Project 18). The project aims to:
1.
Develop a sustainable network of universities and research institutes
to reinforce a culture of bio-safety and
bio-security.
2. Raise awareness of dual-use
concerns in bio-technology (accidents, hazardous experiments,
deliberate misuse, etc.) for academics, scientists,
researchers, technicians and students.
3. Foster the exchange of
information, dissemination of knowledge, transfer of best practice and
design of joint initiatives, both internally and
externally among network participants and national agencies.
4.
Advocate for the incremental incorporation of training materials and
agreed common standards on bio-safety and
bio-security as a component of
the curricula (universities) or fields of research (institutes) of the
network participants.
2. Public resources developed in the course of the project will be made available here.