Research infrastructures
Research infrastructures
Advancing research in Europe and beyond
Research infrastructures deeply align with our mission, as they facilitate collaboration and transparent access to high-quality resources and data, empowering researchers from academia and industry to transcend geographical and disciplinary boundaries
What is a research infrastructure?
Research infrastructures are organizations that enable the research community to use specific facilities, resources and services in order to accelerate scientific achievements and promote sustainable research. For the past decade, European research infrastructures have been established in different scientific fields, enabling access to a wide range of physical entities, such as laboratories, observatories or data centres, and to virtual infrastructures, such as databases or computer networks.
Why are research infrastructures important to CCMAR?
Driving scientific excellence
Research infrastructures bring together the necessary conditions and critical mass to enable cutting-edge, large-scale marine research. They enable CCMAR to transcend geographical and disciplinary boundaries, attract new talent and foster international collaboration.
Fostering open science
Research Infrastructures establish an organised system for transparent sharing of knowledge and resources, ensuring that high quality facilities and data pools are accessible to all. This not only transcends national and institutional boundaries, but also eliminates duplication of effort and encourages collaboration.
Our Engagement in research infrastructures
As active participants in multiple research infrastructures, we foster extensive collaborations. By sharing our resources and learning from a diverse network, we amplify the impact of our contributions. You can also know about the services we provide in here.
EMBRC - Portugal
Driving European ocean research
The European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC) is a research infrastructure dedicated to advancing fundamental and applied marine biology and ecology research, while promoting the sustainable blue economy. CCMAR is the coordinator of the national node of the EMBRC, which also included as members CIIMAR, ACOI and OKEANOS.
Through the EMBRC-PT, CCMAR provides a range of state-of-the-art services such as:
- Living and preserved marine organisms (such as culture collections or biobanks)
- A wide range of habitats and ecosystems
- Experimental facilities such as laboratories
- Latest technologies and platforms (either for imaging or analysis)
- Data collected and organised through e-services
CCMAR is also deeply commited to consolidating the role of the EMBRC as an effective and renownded research infrastructure in Europe, by actively participating in strategic projects and initiatives such as AGROSERV, ISIDORe, CANSERV, AQUARIUS, IRISCC, AQUASERV, Euremap, EOSC-Life, Assemble, Assemble plus, Aquaexcel 2020, Aquaexcel 3.0 and EMBRC.
EMSO (EMSO-ERIC)
Elevating ocean monitoring
The European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory (EMSO) is a European research infrastructure that aims to explore, monitor and better understand the phenomena happening within and below the oceans and their critical impact on the Earth. As core member of the EMSO-PT, the Portuguese node of EMSO, CCMAR actively contributes to the continuous and automatic collection of data to reveal variations of oceanographic parameters. For this, CCMAR installed the first instrument of its kind on the continental platform soutwest of Cape St Vincent, a key region where the waters of the Iberian Peninsula meet the Algarve coast, and where maritime traffic is the highest in Portugal. This was the first time that several oceanographic parameters (temperature, salinity, turbidity, dissolved oxygen and currents) were monitored simultaneously and continuously along the water column. The equipment consists of two autonomous systems: an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) monitoring along a vertical wire and a submerged buoy observing at 150 m depth.
Biodata /Elixir
A step towards open data
BioData.pt is a portuguese bioinformatics and biological data platform integrated in ELIXIR, a European research infrastructure that brings together and coordinates resources such as databases, software tools, training materials, cloud storage and supercomputers from across Europe in the agri-food, forestry, marine and health sectors. As a member of BioData.pt , CCMAR plays an important role in organising the marine domain component, contributing to the microbiome and plant sciences communities, and also providing a computing hardware platform called CETA, which enables access to virtual machines on demand and a high performance computing facility. This platform contributes to our open science and data management policy. Know more about our policy here.
PPBI / Euro-Bioimaging
Shedding light in bioimaging
Euro-BioImaging is a research infrastructure that offers open access to imaging technologies, training and data services in biological and biomedical imaging. CCMAR integrates this European research infrastructure as a member of its Portuguese node, the Portuguese Platform of BioImaging (PPBI), through which researchers gain access to cutting-edge imaging instruments, expert guidance, and data management services, that they might not find at their home institutions or among their collaboration partners. Our involvement in Euro-BioImaging aligns with our commitment to advancing open science and fostering innovation in multiple fields like by empowering researchers to delve deeper into their scientific field.
Portuguese Mass Spectrometry Network
Providing mass spectrometry technology
As part of Portuguese Mass Spectrometry Network (RNEM), CCMAR contributes to differentiated services like Mass Spectrometry, particularly in marine science, addressing research challenges in metabolomics, natural products, marine toxins and contaminants. The RNEM is a national infrastructure and is crucial for CCMAR, since enables to provide cutting-edge scientific expertise, advanced technology and interdisciplinary training in mass spectrometry and proteomics. Find out more about the mass spectrometry services we provide here.
Portuguese Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Sharing NMR technology
CCMAR is part of the Portuguese Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Network (PTNMR), established to offer access to cutting-edge NMR equipment, housed in scientific institutions with competence and scientific expertise on the use of this type of equipment. This national network, aims to create a collaborative environment among scientific institutions, encouraging the use of advanced facilities by researchers and the sharing of national scientific resources. Find out more about our NMR services here.
Key projects and initiatives
Beyond contributing to research infrastructures, we actively engage in vital European and global projects, whether integrated within these infrastructures or standing independently. This dynamic involvement magnifies our impact across diverse initiatives and networks.
Research infrastructures
Advancing research in Europe and beyond
Research infrastructures deeply align with our mission, as they facilitate collaboration and transparent access to high-quality resources and data, empowering researchers from academia and industry to transcend geographical and disciplinary boundaries
What is a research infrastructure?
Research infrastructures are organizations that enable the research community to use specific facilities, resources and services in order to accelerate scientific achievements and promote sustainable research. For the past decade, European research infrastructures have been established in different scientific fields, enabling access to a wide range of physical entities, such as laboratories, observatories or data centres, and to virtual infrastructures, such as databases or computer networks.
Why are research infrastructures important to CCMAR?
Driving scientific excellence
Research infrastructures bring together the necessary conditions and critical mass to enable cutting-edge, large-scale marine research. They enable CCMAR to transcend geographical and disciplinary boundaries, attract new talent and foster international collaboration.
Fostering open science
Research Infrastructures establish an organised system for transparent sharing of knowledge and resources, ensuring that high quality facilities and data pools are accessible to all. This not only transcends national and institutional boundaries, but also eliminates duplication of effort and encourages collaboration.
Our Engagement in research infrastructures
As active participants in multiple research infrastructures, we foster extensive collaborations. By sharing our resources and learning from a diverse network, we amplify the impact of our contributions. You can also know about the services we provide in here.
EMBRC - Portugal
Driving European ocean research
The European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC) is a research infrastructure dedicated to advancing fundamental and applied marine biology and ecology research, while promoting the sustainable blue economy. CCMAR is the coordinator of the national node of the EMBRC, which also included as members CIIMAR, ACOI and OKEANOS.
Through the EMBRC-PT, CCMAR provides a range of state-of-the-art services such as:
- Living and preserved marine organisms (such as culture collections or biobanks)
- A wide range of habitats and ecosystems
- Experimental facilities such as laboratories
- Latest technologies and platforms (either for imaging or analysis)
- Data collected and organised through e-services
CCMAR is also deeply commited to consolidating the role of the EMBRC as an effective and renownded research infrastructure in Europe, by actively participating in strategic projects and initiatives such as AGROSERV, ISIDORe, CANSERV, AQUARIUS, IRISCC, AQUASERV, Euremap, EOSC-Life, Assemble, Assemble plus, Aquaexcel 2020, Aquaexcel 3.0 and EMBRC.
EMSO (EMSO-ERIC)
Elevating ocean monitoring
The European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory (EMSO) is a European research infrastructure that aims to explore, monitor and better understand the phenomena happening within and below the oceans and their critical impact on the Earth. As core member of the EMSO-PT, the Portuguese node of EMSO, CCMAR actively contributes to the continuous and automatic collection of data to reveal variations of oceanographic parameters. For this, CCMAR installed the first instrument of its kind on the continental platform soutwest of Cape St Vincent, a key region where the waters of the Iberian Peninsula meet the Algarve coast, and where maritime traffic is the highest in Portugal. This was the first time that several oceanographic parameters (temperature, salinity, turbidity, dissolved oxygen and currents) were monitored simultaneously and continuously along the water column. The equipment consists of two autonomous systems: an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) monitoring along a vertical wire and a submerged buoy observing at 150 m depth.
Biodata /Elixir
A step towards open data
BioData.pt is a portuguese bioinformatics and biological data platform integrated in ELIXIR, a European research infrastructure that brings together and coordinates resources such as databases, software tools, training materials, cloud storage and supercomputers from across Europe in the agri-food, forestry, marine and health sectors. As a member of BioData.pt , CCMAR plays an important role in organising the marine domain component, contributing to the microbiome and plant sciences communities, and also providing a computing hardware platform called CETA, which enables access to virtual machines on demand and a high performance computing facility. This platform contributes to our open science and data management policy. Know more about our policy here.
PPBI / Euro-Bioimaging
Shedding light in bioimaging
Euro-BioImaging is a research infrastructure that offers open access to imaging technologies, training and data services in biological and biomedical imaging. CCMAR integrates this European research infrastructure as a member of its Portuguese node, the Portuguese Platform of BioImaging (PPBI), through which researchers gain access to cutting-edge imaging instruments, expert guidance, and data management services, that they might not find at their home institutions or among their collaboration partners. Our involvement in Euro-BioImaging aligns with our commitment to advancing open science and fostering innovation in multiple fields like by empowering researchers to delve deeper into their scientific field.
Portuguese Mass Spectrometry Network
Providing mass spectrometry technology
As part of Portuguese Mass Spectrometry Network (RNEM), CCMAR contributes to differentiated services like Mass Spectrometry, particularly in marine science, addressing research challenges in metabolomics, natural products, marine toxins and contaminants. The RNEM is a national infrastructure and is crucial for CCMAR, since enables to provide cutting-edge scientific expertise, advanced technology and interdisciplinary training in mass spectrometry and proteomics. Find out more about the mass spectrometry services we provide here.
Portuguese Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Sharing NMR technology
CCMAR is part of the Portuguese Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Network (PTNMR), established to offer access to cutting-edge NMR equipment, housed in scientific institutions with competence and scientific expertise on the use of this type of equipment. This national network, aims to create a collaborative environment among scientific institutions, encouraging the use of advanced facilities by researchers and the sharing of national scientific resources. Find out more about our NMR services here.
Key projects and initiatives
Beyond contributing to research infrastructures, we actively engage in vital European and global projects, whether integrated within these infrastructures or standing independently. This dynamic involvement magnifies our impact across diverse initiatives and networks.