Sir Robert May: Yes, both in defence and elsewhere there has been a deliberate attempt, and indeed we have a rolling program of looking at all government research laboratories, both research council laboratories, like the Grassland Research Institute, and the Royal Greenwich Observatory, one noted case—the Royal Greenwich Observatory no longer being an observatory as such but being a joint enterprise between Cambridge and Edinburgh that built equipment for telescopes—and also other department research laboratories, like the fisheries laboratories run by the Ministry of Agricu ...[+++]lture, Food and Fisheries, and the fisheries laboratories run by the Scottish office.

It's almost transforming itself from being in the lab to going outside the lab, from a laboratory to a co-laboratory, and it's basically focusing the research around the problem.

The Directive provides that the performance of laboratory tests for the detection of pests on plants - a task generally reserved for accredited national laboratories - may be delegated to universities, research institutes or private laboratories.

In the past, the Commission has supported research at Mol, and in other underground research laboratories, such as Tournemire in France, Asse in Germany and Äspö in Sweden.

[3] ESA: European Space Agency; EMBL: European Molecular Biology Laboratory; ESRF: European Synchroton Radiation Facility; CERN: European Organisation for Nuclear Research.

On the basis of the concept of "European laboratories without walls" of the earlier programmes, funding will be provided for associations of laboratories in different Member States collaborating on a joint research topic, by providing a grant roughly corresponding to one post-doctoral researcher per participating laboratory.