About the German Research Platform for Zoonoses
The German
Research Platform for Zoonoses provides a central information and service
network for German researchers in the field of zoonoses. The Zoonoses Platform is funded
by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Objectives and activities
Our objective is to promote the exchange of expertise at national and
international levels and thus speed up research activities in the field of
zoonoses; in addition, we pursue the widespread horizontal cross-linking of
human and veterinary medicine as well as other relevant sciences to live the idea of One Health.
The Zoonoses Platform has created and supports an interdisciplinary network of all disciplines of zoonoses research in Germany.
These objectives are achieved by the following measures:
- Organization and realization of joint events that
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 (see Database Internet Portal / Datenbankinternetportal for more information)
- Providing information about zoonotic infectious
diseases for the general public
- Initiation and realization of innovative and
interdisciplinary pilot projects of a cross-sectional nature.
- Support and counseling for the design and
implementation of zoonotic funding schemes.
The Zoonoses Platform acts as a central service point and provides
fact-oriented, transparent information relating to research on zoonoses both
for politics and the general public. Furthermore, it promotes a continuous
and intensive exchange of expertise between scientists from all over the world.
Our members
All scientists doing research in zoonoses in Germany can become members of the German Research Platform for Zoonoses.
Since its official start in 2009, the Zoonoses Platform has attracted more than 700 members. These members represent the broad spectrum of zoonoses research in Germany. Among them are veterinarians, physicians, biologists and ecologists working in the fields of virology, bacteriology, mycology, prions, epidemiology, geo-ecology and more relevant disciplines. They are experienced in interacting and cooperating beyond scientific borders, academic disciplines and among universities and other scientific institutes.
This large spectrum of scientific knowledge makes the research on zoonotic infectious diseases in Germany flexible and powerful.