A new BONFOR Funding Instrument for Technology Development in Core Facilities

Dear colleagues, dear users of the Core Facilities, all of us are aware of the restrictions in our public life that were set up to fight the current challenges of the corona pandemic. And it is time to remind you of the restrictions that we already set up for the core facilities during the first…

Dear users of the Core Facilities, Dear Colleagues, core facilites are a place to share instrumentation, spread information and support scienctists. People have to meet. But in order to fulfill  our part in reducing the impact and spread of the novel coronavirus, the core facilities have taken some definite decisions to reduce service and the…

Are you excited about the possibility that your research could make a difference in the world? We’d like to help you achieve that with awards totaling EUR 60.000! All you have to do is apply and present your idea at the first ever Pitch Contest of the Medical Faculty Bonn on September 15, 2022. External…

By providing technological services and expertise core facilities and their staff have a strong impact on the scientific performance and output of their host organisation.
In the absence of a high number of publications, acknowledgements are used as a measure of a core facility and its staff’s output and impact.
The acknowledgement of a core facility therefore goes beyond professional courtesy…

as you can already see from our Handbook, there are two questions we get asked frequently: What is a Core Facilitity and what is it good for? By coincidence, the Journal “Forschung&Lehre” asked themselves in the October issue of their journal, how “Forschungswerkzeuge” or Research Infrastructures support science. We provided them an article on how…