• BBMRI.at is involved in the development of uniform, internationally valid procedures and (ISO, CEN) standards for sample, data and quality management and establishes them in BBMRI.at (e.g. for the treatment of tissue, blood, microbiome samples, or digital pathology). BBMRI.at advises and offers courses in the field of quality management (www.bbmri.at/quality-management).
• BBMRI.at 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”. For example, a database for recording and searching for biobanks, human/animal samples and data was (co-)developed (www.bbmri.at/catalog). Special sample cohorts are described at http://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 for e.g. 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.

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. IT, SLO, CZ, CY) are very important to BBMRI.at. For examples of (inter)national cooperation, see www.bbmri.at/projects).