20% of EMBL-EBI usage comes from industry, and this equates to over a 1 million users a day. ELIXIR will build on this, providing an industry standard infrastructure that will enable SMEs and multinationals, from pharma through to food and agri companies, can make new discoveries and develop new products. Host Country/Key Partner Countries Key Stakeholders Key Users As of November 2012 Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland Israel Italy Life scientist Netherlands researchers all over the Norway There are Portugal estimated to be 3 Slovenia million life science Sweden researchers alone in Prep Phase Spain Europe, and the role coordinated by EMBL that bioinformatics Switzerland plays in research UK Funding bodies, means that a huge ministries, charities, number of these will be Hub located in UK Plus EMBL industry, academia ELIXIR users. Estimated Project Annual Project Operational Overall Annual Overall In-Kind Investment Cost (years) Cost Contribution Contributions The contributions received so far relate to the construction of the Hub, the operating costs of Nodes and the All contributions operating costs of the received so far have Hub. Detailed been cash information is contributions. In kind provided on these in contributions have million for total million per year for €470 €100 section 1 not been included. construction costs operating costs
20% of EMBL-EBI usage comes from industry, and this equates to over a 1 million users a day. ELIXIR will build on this, providing an industry standard infrastructure that will enable SMEs and multinationals, from pharma through to food and agri companies, can make new discoveries and develop new products. Host Country/Key Partner Countries Key Stakeholders Key Users Prep Phase coordinated by EMBL Hub located in UK As of November 2012 Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland Israel Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Slovenia Sweden Spain Switzerland UK Plus EMBL Funding bodies, ministries, charities, industry, academia Life scientist researchers all over the There are estimated to be 3 million life science researchers alone in Europe, and the role that bioinformatics plays in research means that a huge number of these will be ELIXIR users. Estimated Project Investment Cost (years) Annual Project Operational Cost Overall Annual Contribution Overall In-Kind Contributions €470 million for total construction costs €100 million per year for operating costs The contributions received so far relate to the construction of the Hub, the operating costs of Nodes and the operating costs of the Hub. Detailed information is provided on these in section 1 All contributions received so far have been cash contributions. In kind contributions have not been included.
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