Because research infrastructure works better when expertise is shared

Advanced technologies are essential to modern life sciences, but they are also expensive, specialized, and constantly evolving. Core facilities help researchers access that expertise without every lab having to build, maintain, and staff its own technology platform. Core for Life connects core facility organizations across institutes and countries to exchange experience, coordinate ideas, and tackle shared challenges in research infrastructure.

For VIB Technologies, the network offers a space to think beyond day-to-day service delivery. Together with international peers, we explore how core facilities can expand access, support expert staff, adopt emerging technologies, and demonstrate their value to research organizations. It is a place to share what works, learn from others, and help shape how core facilities can keep supporting excellent science in a changing technology landscape.