WP3: Technology transfer programme
Objectives
- Exchange of methods and application between the participants.
- Promotion of short-term collaborations related to the work programme.
- Transfer of technology between the participating laboratories for implementation of new methods or technology.
- Provision of short-term secondments for laboratory visits to promote more intensive collaboration, preferably such that one laboratory from each Member and Associated State may be entitled to only one secondment.
- Liaison with WP1 for identification of technological gaps between the European countries.
Action
- Identify areas of technological developments important for European standardization of DNA profiling techniques,
- identify suitable host labs to provide training for specific techniques,
- provide short-term secondments (approx. 2 weeks each) for exchange of personnel (number of secondments limited to a top ceiling of ECU 24,000),
- develop an application and reviewing procedure for secondments (short written proposal by applicant subjected to internal peer review),
- evaluate the success of the training programme.