Kajsa M Paulsson

The HALRIC project is an EU-supported initiative to increase the utilization of the strong and unique Life Science Research Infrastructures and competences present in Northern Europe - more precisely Denmark, Southern Sweden, the Hamburg region, and the Oslo region. The primary aim of the initiative is to bring together acaemics, companies and hospitals in pilot-project collaborations with both the large-scale infrastructures as well as with complementary infrastructures in the Region. The consortium also works on prototype models for handling the huge amounts of electronic data generated by such highly-specialized infrastructures, and on strengthening the Life Science ecosystems and strategic dialogues between the countries. The project has 21 partner organizations across Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Norway - consisting of universities, hospitals, large-scale research infrastructures, regional governments, and life science organizations: SWEDEN: Lund University (lead partner), Malmö University, MAX IV, ESS, Skåne University Hospital, Region Skåne, Medicon Village. DENMARK: University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark, Aarhus University, University of Southern Denmark, Rigshospitalet/Region Hovedstaden, Medicon Valley Alliance (project facilitation). GERMANY: University of Hamburg, EMBL, DESY, European XFEL, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, City of Hamburg, Life Science Nord. NORWAY: University of Oslo. The total project budget is 11.2 million EUR, covered by a grant of 6.6 million EUR from EU Interreg Öresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak (www.interreg-oks.eu) and by in-kind contributions. The project is managed by Lund University in collaboration with Medicon Valley Alliance. Press release 16 Dec 2022: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/11-million-euros-life-science-research-and-innovation-infrastructure-synergies-northern-europe