Division 1 Tasks and Activities

EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC shall establish, operate and develop a European distributed research infrastructure consisting of screening platforms as well as chemistry and biology facilities, in order to facilitate the access to resources, tools and facilities to researchers and to support high quality research on the molecular mechanisms of biological processes.

EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC shall operate the infrastructure on a non-economic basis. EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC may carry out limited economic activities, provided that these are closely related to its principal task and that they do not jeopardise the achievement thereof.

To fulfil its tasks EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC shall undertake and coordinate activities, including but not limited to:

1. (a)

   develop, build and maintain a European Chemical Biology Library of Compounds;

2. (b)

   develop, build and maintain a Central Database of screening results;

3. (c)

   build and maintain a Central Office for coordinating activities;

4. (d)

   organise and coordinate high-quality infrastructure services supported by harmonised procedures and quality standards;

5. (e)

   grant researchers effective access to the resources and services of EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC and its Partner Sites in accordance with the rules defined in these Statutes;

6. (f)

   establish collaboration with the other European and international research infrastructures in order to serve the research community in interdisciplinary research questions;

7. (g)

   disseminate tools and data for the use of the public;

8. (h)

   engage in exchange with relevant industry without prejudice to Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 723/2009.