• BBMRI.at is centrally involved in the development of ISO and CEN standards for sample, data and quality management and establishes them in BBMRI.at (e.g. for the handling of tissue, blood, microbiome samples, or digital pathology slides). BBMRI.at performs cross-audits of its biobanks, offers advise and courses particularly in the field of quality management (www.bbmri.at/for-researchers/quality-management/).
• BBMRI.at further develops approaches to make it easier for researchers from universities and industry to access biobanks and establish research collaborations using quality-defined samples and data, and to create a “trusted data environment”.
  Learn about the biobank access procedure and the central contact/access point to Austrian and European biobanks on the BBMRI.at website (www.bbmri.at/for-researchers/).
  Special biobank sample cohorts and lighthouse collections are described at www.bbmri.at/biobank-cohorts.
• BBMRI.at and partners have expertise and infrastructures for highly infectious pathogen investigation (BSL-3 laboratory) and for the digitization of stained tissue sections to whole slide images e.g. for artificial intelligence applications.
• For the involvement of various stakeholders – above all citizens and researchers – BBMRI.at regularly conducts interviews, group discussions or surveys, as well as biobank tours and children’s university workshops and participates in the Long Night of Research, where every two years, BBMRI.at gives insight into the work of biobanks and pathology institutes.

Networking and cooperation with various stakeholders, such as biobanks, researchers, citizens, sample donors, authorities, healthcare organizations, the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries, legal and ethics experts and other national BBMRI nodes (e.g. DE, CH, IT, SLO, CZ, CY) are very important to BBMRI.at. BBMRI.at participates and has leading roles in multiple (inter)national projects, i.e. SPIDIA4P, MICROBE, INSTAND, GenomeMET, canSERV, ISIDORe and SCIBIOEU. For more information about these and other projects, visit www.bbmri.at/projects.