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This collection comprises materials relating to the Sectoral Meetings held by EMBO. It contains correspondence, and meeting documents such as programmes, participant lists, and reports.

Due to many scientists having primary loyalty to a subsection of molecular biology and therefore a secondary loyalty to molecular biology as a whole, some scientists had the feeling EMBO was not particularly important to their specific sector. The EMBO Council felt that establishing sectoral meetings would be a good way to ensure that the organisation did not miss out on new developments within different areas of the life sciences, and to build up contacts within these areas. It therefore approved meetings with scientists from Neurobiology and Immunology to discuss their impact on society, with a view to holding more meetings on other subsections of the life sciences in the future.

This collection consists of correspondence, and administrative and organisational documents related to EMBO’s involvement in the activities of the ELSF.

In 1999, EMBO, EMBL, and ELSO engaged in talks to create a Forum for the life sciences in Europe, coming together at a meeting at the EMBO headquarters to establish the ELSF shortly thereafter. The ELSF aimed to empower scientists to engage more actively in strategic and science policy matters, to present a unified voice on issues of shared concern, and to enhance the visibility and policy influence of organisations representing the life sciences.

A small governing body was appointed consisting of Frank Gannon, Fotis Kafatos, Kai Simons, and Julio E. Celis as President. Luc van Dyck joined as manager six months after the organisation was created. The secretariat was set up at the EMBL/EMBO facilities in Heidelberg and the EMBL, EMBO, and FEBS offered to cover a large fraction of the expenses for a period of 3 years.

Additionally, the ELSF identified as priorities the career of young scientists and the creation of a European Research Council (ERC) to support basic research.

This collection is comprised of materials relating to EMBO’s contribution to the founding of the European Research Commission (ERC), as well to the framework programmes of the European Community (EC) for research, technological development and demonstration activities. It consists of correspondence, and administrative and organisational documentation.

This collection comprises a single folder containing reports, meeting documents, and correspondence involving the AIMBN. It also contains a photograph from the first AIMBN meeting, featuring then Director of the EMBO, Frank Gannon.

Materials related to the EBNIC program proposed and coordinated by EMBO from 1984-2001.

Towards the end of the 90s, EMBO decided to expand the geographical range of its activities, as a means of developing relationships between European scientists and their peers outside of the EMBO area. With China’s inclusion as a partner in the development of the 5th European Framework Programme, and with what the EMBO council considered to be EMBO’s insufficient attention to the area of Biotechnology, EMBO decided to initiate the EBNIC program. EBNIC began its operations in February 1998, funded by the EU-INCO (international cooperation program). Initially funded for 3 years, it represented an effort to promote wider interest among European academic and industrial biotechnologists in working with their Chinese counterparts.

Both a European and Chinese management team were established to oversee activities and define the mission of the program. Frank Gannon acted as coordinator. A start-up meeting of the management group was held in mid-February 1998 in Brussels, during which the date, venue, and draft agenda for the first annual meeting of the European Node were agreed upon during this meeting. The topics to concentrate on were chosen based on the relevant findings of the DGXII representatives in the mission that visited China in preparation of the EU-China Science & Technology Cooperation Agreement established in 1998.

The first general meeting of EBNIC was held on 27th April 1998 in Heidelberg. The results of this meeting were the enlargement of the management group, and the selection of topics for joint workshops.

At a later meeting, on the 15th of June 1998 in Beijing, these topics were finalized, and workshops on “Diagnostics today and tomorrow” and “host-pathogen interactions” were held in November 1998 in China and January 1999 in Italy, respectively.

Subsequent workshops, lectures, and scientific visits were organized under EBNIC’s program, a website hosting a database of potential collaborators was established, and annual meetings of interested European scientists and industries were held.

At the end of the 3-year program, funding for EBNIC-2, intended to be EBNIC’s successor, was not accepted and the program was terminated. However, EMBO subsequently set up its World Programme (now Global Activities), to continue its work building collaboration between European scientists and external partners.

This collection comprises materials related to the Membership Programme of EMBO.

The Membership Committee series contains correspondence, meeting documents, and other organisational and administrative documents concerning the management of the Membership department.

The Nominations and Results series contains documents relating to the nominations and elections of new EMBO members. It contains lists of nominations and results.

The EMBO Members Meeting series contains administrative and organisational documents concerning the annual meeting of new and current EMBO members, as well as material from the meetings such as photographs, programmes, and lists of participants.

The EMBO Membership Lists series contains annual lists of EMBO members published by the organisation.

This collection comprises materials relating to the establishment of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) by the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO).

This collection comprises materials relating to the relationship between the European Cell Biology Organisation, and the European Molecular Biology Organisation. It contains correspondence, newsletters and information bulletins, meeting documents, working group documents reports and copies of ECBO’s founding constitution.

Materials related to EMBO’s role in the founding of ISE and the organisation of its activities.