Project description
Global virus archive
The EU-funded EVA-GLOBAL project gathers 43 laboratories associated with key Non-Governmental Organizations including WHO and OIE. EVA-GLOBAL network is reinforced by 12 Associate Partners and 5 Associate international networks. This unique advanced international community (12 EU and 17 non-EU) aims at becoming the most responsive network to improve the control of emerging or re-emerging virus outbreaks at the global level. The past EVAg, has already been able to play a key role for the control of major virus outbreaks such as MERS, Chik, Zika, Ebola, Dengue, COVID-19 viruses, by the supply of unique reagents for the detection of viruses in infected patients. Through the new institutes joining the consortium, EVA-G will become the largest virtual virus collection for human, animal and plant viruses.
Objective
EVA-GLOBAL gathers 38 academic institutions at the forefront of human, animal and plant research in Virology, associated with key Non-Governmental Organisations including the World Health Organisation, OIE, FAO and related international organizations such as the CGIAR. This new project is built on the strong foundations constituted two previous EVA (2009-2014), FP7 and EVAg (2014-2019), H2020 projects. It includes high calibre institutes with the appropriate expertise to collect, characterise, standardise, authenticate and distribute human, animal and plant viruses. EVA-GLOBAL is conceived to be an open access entity aiming at developing synergies and complementary capabilities in such a way to offer an improved access to the researchers. A single-entry point, the web-based catalogue, gives a facilitate access to the end-user, to the collections including viruses, derived materials and engineered cells. This project will integrate 13 facilities dedicated to the high-risk pathogens manipulations (BSL4), which constitutes the largest BSL4 network worldwide. EVA-GLOBAL will also link up with other network-based virus associated programmes that exist globally. This unique advanced community aims at becoming the most responsive network to improve the control of emerging or re-emerging virus outbreaks at the global level. During the past EVAg project, this infrastructure has already been able to play a key role for the control of emerging virus diseases by the supply of unique reagents for the detection of viruses under the WHO umbrella. Through this new ambitious four-year project and the new institutes joining the consortium, EVA-GLOBAL will become the largest virtual virus collection for human, animal and plant viruses will move beyond the current state-of-the-art to provide an increasingly valuable resource and service to the scientific community, including government health departments, higher education institutes, industry and to the general public as well.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
13284 Marseille
France
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Participants (36)
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13572 Marseille
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20359 Hamburg
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10117 Berlin
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LS2 7UE Leeds
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1000 Ljubljana
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845 05 Bratislava
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4051 Basel
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00149 Roma
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13353 Berlin
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3015 GD Rotterdam
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75654 Paris
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171 82 Solna
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1097 Budapest
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3721 MA Bilthoven
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430071 WUHAN
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35037 Marburg
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75724 Paris
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Participation ended
197376 ST PETERSBURG
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11521 Athens
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DAKAR Dakar
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SW1P 4DF LONDON
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17493 Greifswald-Insel Riems
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GU24 0NF Woking
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2601 Acton Act
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35020 Legnaro
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25124 Brescia
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38124 Braunschweig
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06484 Quedlinburg
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00185 Roma
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75007 Paris
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75016 Paris
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94700 Maisons Alfort
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69227 Lyon
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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32611 5500 Gainesville
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0001 Pretoria
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