Hanseatic Life Science Research Infrastructure Consortium (HALRIC)

The consortium aims at establishing collaborations between industry, hospitals and universities and large-scale research infrastructures (MAX IV, ESS, EuXFEL, EMBL, UKE, UniHH and DESY) that will lead to mutual benefits from the unique research infrastructures and competencies available in southern Scandinavia and northern Germany.

The three-year project, funded by the EU Interreg Öresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak was launched on 1 April 2023. It is led by Lund University in Sweden and includes partner organisations across Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Norway.

Through pilot projects HALRIC facilitates collaboration between academia, hospitals, SMEs as well as larger biotech and pharma companies. The partnership welcomes research project proposals for the use of one or more research infrastructures in the HALRIC consortium.

HALRIC will also work on prototype models for handling the vast amounts of electronic data generated by research infrastructures, as well as on strengthening the Life Science ecosystems and strategic dialogues between the four countries in the project.

HALRIC continues and expands on the activities initiated by HALOS, the Hanseatic League of Science, which focused on interconnecting infrastructures for life science research and innovation between Hamburg and south-west Scandinavia from 2019 to 2022.

Hanseatic Life Science Research Infrastructure Consortium (HALRIC)

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