Research Infrastructures
Research infrastructure facilities at the Faculty of Medicine are categorized into three groups: Central, Core and Shared Facilities.
Research infrastructure facilities provide all faculty employees with access to key technologies that may not be readily available to all users due to their high complexity and/or acquisition costs. At the same time, this eases the access to major research instrumentation for all interested researchers. In this way, research infrastructure facilities help to pool resources and make research more efficient.
Scientific and technical staff within the facilities handle inquiries and provide scientific services. For specific questions, please refer to the individual facility websites for a list of the relevant staff members.
PPMS Booking System
The web-based software PPMS (Pasteur Platform Management System) by Stratocore supports research infrastructure facilities in documenting, organising, booking and billing their services. This software is currently being introduced step-by-step in the Core and Shared Facilities of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg.
To use the equipment, infrastructure or services of these facilities, you require a personal account in our booking system.
Your individual dashboard provides an overview of all booked services and appointments in the respective Core Facilities. Invoicing for the booked services generally occurs on a quarterly basis.
Research Infrastructure Plan
The Faculty of Medicine’s research infrastructures are essential for the sustaining and advancing of the faculty’s and university’s research focus areas in the face of national and international competition. The aim is to offer state-of-the-art technical equipment and scientific expertise, as well as to enable the efficient use and maximum utilization of major research instrumentation, in order to make key technologies accessible to all researchers within the faculty. The Faculty of Medicine has implemented a research infrastructure plan that includes an overarching governance structure and a funding program for research infrastructures.
Research Infrastructure Funding Program of the Faculty of Medicine
To promote and further develop the research infrastructure facilities, the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Freiburg offers a competitive funding program for research infrastructures with the following funding lines:
- Acknowledgement as a Shared Facility of the Faculty of Medicine
- Acknowledgement as a Core Facility of the Faculty of Medicine
- Start-up funding innovation for acknowledged research infrastructure facilities of the Faculty of Medicine
- Contribution to basic financing for Core facilities
Call for proposals for the research infrastructures funding lines
The call for the funding lines 2026 is opened!
The call texts for the funding lines can be found here:
Handling Research Data
Research data management (RDM) is becoming increasingly important for scientists and their research projects. As different parties may be involved in the various steps of data generation, processing and analysis, good research data management is necessary to ensure efficient workflows.
Access to the Major Research Instrumentation Database
Register with your Uni-Account. The database can be found on the second tab under ‘Applications’.