Overview
Overview
Overview
Central Core Facilities
In den Central Core Facilities (CCF) an der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität zu Köln wird eine Forschungsinfrastruktur der Spitzenklasse gebündelt, die internen und externen Wissenschaftler*innen sowie Kooperationspartner*innen zur Verfügung steht. Diese Infrastruktur schafft Synergien, indem Ressourcen gemeinsamen genutzt werden, die interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit erhöht und damit die wissenschaftliche Leistungsfähigkeit am Standort Köln gestärkt wird. Unsere Core Facilities (CF) sind dabei ausgestattet mit hochmodernen Geräten und werden von fachkundigen Experten*innen betrieben. Dadurch finden Forschende Zugang zu state-of-the-art Technologien, einer qualifizierten Beratung bei wissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen und vielem mehr. Aktuell befindet sich das Angebot der Central Core Facilities im Aufbau und wird kontinuierlich erweitert. Regelmäßiges Reinschauen lohnt sich.
Weitere Informationen zu angebotenen Leistungen, Gebühren und Ansprechpartnern*innen finden Sie auf der Seite der jeweiligen Core Facility. Allgemeine Informationen zur Struktur und Organisation der Central Core Facilities finden sie in naher Zukunft hier. Bei Rückfragen sprechen Sie uns gerne jederzeit an!
Unsere Core Facilities auf einen Blick
Detailed information
Who can use the facilities?
The Faculty of Medicine's CCFs are available to internal users, cooperation partners and external users. The individual groups are defined as follows:
Internal users: All employees of the Faculty of Medicine, including visiting scientists and scholarship holders of the University of Cologne
Cooperation partners: Non-university research institutions with which a cooperation agreement exists (e.g. MPG, DZNE, DLR); collaborative projects, e.g. within a CRC
External users: All other users
How are the Central Core Facilities organised?
The Central Core Facilities are organised by a coordination office, which is responsible for strategic and operational development.
The individual core facilities are managed by a scientific and a technical management team and supported in terms of content and strategy by a focus group.
At regular intervals, the focus group discusses the current key figures of the core facility and possible improvements and makes recommendations to the Dean's Office via the Advisory Board (representation of the Dean's Office, academic heads of the core facilities, CCF coordinator).
Acknowledgments
Mentioning the use of our core facilities in your publications is an important indicator for us and crucial for maintaining funding and further investment. Users are therefore obliged to mention the core facility in a publication.
The type of acknowledgement/consideration depends on the scope of the services provided by the respective core facility. In accordance with the DFG's utilisation guidelines (Chapter 13.1 Obligation to publish), the CCF and the projects funded by the DFG should be included in the acknowledgements in the following form:
"We acknowledge [name person] and the Central Core Facility [name Core Facility] at the Medical Faculty, University of Cologne for the support in acquisition (and analysis) of the data funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer(n) [project number]."
Core Facilities whose equipment was funded by a DFG Major Instrumentation Grant provide the respective project numbers on their website. If a core facility does not provide a project number, the same acknowledgement must still be used, without specifying the project number. If the work carried out by the core facility goes beyond the usual technical support and includes, for example, the development of new methods, experimental design, extensive evaluation or similar, the employees of the core facility involved must be named as co-authors, taking into account good scientific practice.
User fees
The use of the core facilities is subject to a fee. The respective fees can be found in the user regulations of the corresponding core facility.
The DFG can finance the usage costs for core facilities as part of its funding procedures if these correspond to project-specific additional requirements.
Further information can be found here.
If you require assistance with the application for utilization costs, please contact
Dr. Simona Walker I Research Officer
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