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The Alma in Silico project, financed by the Interreg IV Program, has officially started on 1st January of 2009. The project is a collaboration within the Euregio Meuse-Rhine between the GIGA-Research (University of Liège) and the Universities of Hasselt (BIOMED), Maastricht (GCM) and RWTH Aachen (IMB). The aim of this 3 year-project is to build an integration, dissemination and knowledge management platform in the field of “Systems Biology”.

This project will link industries, reseach programs and academic education. An amount of 7,660,000 euro is allocated by the Interreg IV European Funds and the committed Regions (The Walloon Region, the North Rhine Westphalia, the Flemish Community, the Belgian and Dutch Provinces of Limburg).

The project consists in 3 main actions including the development of a euregional bioinformatics platform, the establishment of a technology platform for systems biology and validation projects (inducing efficient collaborations in research against cancer, multiple sclerosis, pharmacological an toxicological studies, …) which will use the 2 previous platforms.

An additional action will concern the knowledge sharing in order to establish a training program in bioinformatics for researchers and life sciences technicians, and also in new methodological, technological and informatics tools.

The GIGA-Research Center of the University of Liège, as project coordinator, will take care of the good implementation of the project, and will ensure the technical, administrative and financial management of the project.

www.alma-in-silico.com