Nelson Lima re-elected as European Culture Collections' Organisation President
Nelson Lima has been re-elected as President of the European Culture Collections´ Organisation after a unanimously vote
ECCO was established in 1981 and supports the interests of European collections of microorganisms and their users. The improvement of scientific and technical culture collection standards are fundamental parts of ECCO’s remit, in close collaboration with the World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC, www.wfcc.info). Currently, ECCO covers 61 service collections in 26 European countries which provide access to more than 400,000 strains of microorganisms. ECCO is an important think tank where several EU and global projects were incubated and organised, such as the Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure (MIRRI, www.mirri.org). So far, six countries, Including Portugal (FCT-MCTES), signed the MIRRI Memorandum of Understanding.
MUM was established in 1996 and in 2002 became a cooperate member of ECCO and has served the Executive Board since 2003. Since 2011, MUM is a certified ISO 9001:2008 culture collection for storage, preservation and supply filamentous fungal strains, and currently is high involved with the ISO technical committee 276 on the new standards for microBiological Resource Centres (mBRCs) operation and microbial resource data. It is a matter of record that MUM’s is committed to ECCO activities, including the quality control and assurance criteria developed and implemented in culture collections in the last decade and the efforts in networking across Europe and beyond.
The re-election of Nelson Lima as President for more 3 years is a recognition of the work done on the 1st term: internally with the renovation of the organisation and externally with expansion and consolidation with partnerships like WDCM, FEMS and FAO-UN.
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