EMBO - European Molecular Biology Organization and EMBC - European Molecular Biology Conference

The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) is an organization that brings together more than 1800 top researchers who promote excellence in the life sciences not only in Europe, but worldwide.

The European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC) was created in 1969, following the model of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), as a permanent intergovernmental organization, and arose as a consequence of the creation of EMBO in 1964, allowing this organization to obtain the political support it needed to pursue its long-term projects.

Funding opportunities and participation in EMBO and EMBC

The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC) make life sciences available:

• Courses, workshops and lectures
• Publications (EMBO Press)
• Training, teaching and research Studentships

European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

The organization's main objectives are:

• Supporting talented researchers at all stages of their career;
• Encourage the exchange of scientific information;
• Help build a research environment where scientists can do their best work.

EMBO helps young scientists to advance their research, promote their international reputation and ensure their mobility. Courses, workshops and lectures and EMBO Press publications disseminate the latest research work and offer training in techniques for maintaining high standards of excellence in research practice. EMBO helps shape science policy by seeking input from the community and closely monitoring trends in science.

EMBO supports talented researchers, selected through impartial evaluation processes, to enable them to do top science. The broad scientific scope across the entire spectrum of life sciences research, together with the wide geographical reach of more than 1800 members and associate members - some of the best researchers in Europe and around the world - positions EMBO ideally to serve the life sciences community.

History of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC)

The European Molecular Biology Organization was founded in 1964 by a pioneering group of molecular biologists, including Nobel laureates Max Perutz, John Kendrew, François Jacob and Sydney Brenner. The organization was created with the aim of achieving two distinct but related objectives:

1. The launch of a program to finance and promote training and Studentships in this area;
2. The establishment of a central molecular biology laboratory.

Funding and support for the first of these objectives was found from European countries and led to the establishment of the European Molecular Biology Conference in 1969.

For its part, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) was created in 1974 as a "Special Project" of the EMBC with the support of a subset of the organization's member countries.

Today, EMBL is an independent entity with autonomous functioning, constituting itself as an intergovernmental organization. EMBO and EMBL and the member countries work closely together to create synergies for the advancement of this scientific area in Europe.

European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC)

Fourteen governments initially joined EMBC, providing the organization with stable funding and scientific independence.

The EMBC is now made up of 31 member countries, most of them from the European Union, but also some neighboring countries: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

EMBC through its General Program presents a framework for European cooperation in the field of molecular biology and related research areas.

The General Program focuses mainly on granting training, teaching and research Studentships and establishing programs for courses and workshops in the life sciences.

The financial contributions of each member country support the General Program, the execution of which is entrusted to EMBO. Both EMBC and EMBO are driven by a common commitment to quality research at European level. Their joint activities are characterized by quality and encourage cooperation within the scientific community.