About the National Research Platform for Zoonoses

The National Research Platform for Zoonoses offers a central information and service network for German researchers in the field of zoonoses. The Platform is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Objectives and activities

Our objective is to promote exchange of expertise on the national and international level and thus to accelerate research activities in the field of zoonoses; in addition, we pursue the wide horizontal cross-linking of human and veterinary medicine.

The platform will create and support an interdisciplinary network of human and veterinary medicine.

These objectives will be achieved by the following measures:

• Organization and realization of joint events which support interdisciplinary exchange and interaction.
• Encouragement of communication as well as national, European and international collaboration.
• Registration, harmonization and standardization of existing resources, including the setting up of both real and virtual specimen databases.
• Providing information about zoonotic infectious diseases for the general public.
• Initiation and realization of innovative and interdisciplinary pilot projects with cross-sectional character.
• Support and counselling for the design and implementation of zoonotic funding schemes.

The Research Platform acts as a central service point and provides fact-oriented and transparent information relating to the research on zoonoses both for politics and the general public. The platform also promotes a continuous and intensive exchange of expertise between scientists from all over the world.