SciLifeLab and EMBL in collaboration
SciLifeLab and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), one of the world’s leading research institutions, and Europe’s flagship laboratory for life sciences, have intensified collaboration between the two organizations under a joint Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). EMBL and SciLifeLab share the same overarching goals to advance science for the benefit of healthcare, biodiversity, the environment and many other fields.
As some of the most pressing challenges biological research is facing today are global, effective solutions to improve planetary and human health require scientists working together across countries and disciplines. The MoU declares a joint ambition to stimulate mutually beneficial scientific and academic exchange and collaboration in various areas of life science research in order to ensure greater connectivity, availability of scientific data, use of shared key technologies and circulation of talent.
Ongoing & upcoming
SciLifeLab provides financial support for exchange visits between SciLifeLab and an EMBL site (facility or research group).
You need to schedule a meeting with an infrastructure facility or research group. A letter of invitation from the EMBL host is required with the application. The visit can be combined with an EMBL course or workshop.
The deadline for the 2025 applications was March 31st. Next call opens December 2025 for visits during 2026.
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ARISE2 Career Accelerator for Research Infrastructure Scientists hire researchers and engineers to advance technology and methods in life sciences and learn how to lead service providing research infrastructures.
Through ARISE2, EMBL works with a number of academic and non-academic organisation, who participate in training and supervision of the fellows. These organisations are potential future employers of the ARISE fellows as well as partners on the technology development projects that the fellows are working on.
SciLifeLab is an official collaboration partner organisation within ARISE2 and offer infrastructure secondments at our units. EMBL is now planning to run a 2nd call for fellows from 30th June – 30 September 2025. Fellows recruited in that call will start from 1 January 2026.
Do you hold a Ph.D. (at the time of the call deadline June 30, 2025), and what to explore a career in research infrastructure management? Read more via links below!
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Further reading
News article on the joint “Infection Biology Across Scales” workshop, organized in Umeå in February 2025.
News article on the joint Data Science workshop, organized in Uppsala in May 2023.
News article and video interview on the joint workshop on the theme of Planetary Biology, organized in Heidelberg in May 2022.
Summary report on the SciLifeLab-EMBL activities within the MoU 2021-2024.
EMBL Planetary Biology transversal theme, unravelling genetic and environmental influences in biomes and ecosystems to understand biological processes and improve planetary health.
EMBL’s newly deployed Advanced Mobile Laboratory (AML) which is bringing cutting-edge technologies to the European coast.
Webinar from 2021 which highlights the launch of the intensified collaboration between SciLifeLab and EMBL under the joint Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).