The Portuguese Blue Biobank (BAP) is integrated in Portuguese Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) as a transversal Work Package (WP9) of the Consortium. This project is financed by the PRR (Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência) by the Portuguese Republic and the European Union.
The Portuguese Blue Biobank centralizes on a single website the information of specimen and strains of marine collections for use in scientific and industrial fields.
Vision
Put Portugal on the forefront in regards to knowledge and the preservation of its marine bioresources contributing to its economic valorisation.
Mission
Create a digital network of national marine biobanks in order to facilitate the sustainable and regulated access to the available marine biodiversity for both scientific and industrial users.While at the same time promoting their conservation and conformity with the regulations of the Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) derived from the Nagoya Protocol.
Objectives
Centralize and improve the quality and tracking regarding sample harvesting of marine organisms and isolations in culture collections. Serving as supplier of marine samples for scientific and industrial studies specially between the vertical elements of the “Pacto da Bioeconomia Azul”.
Create a high value-added solution for marine samples derived from monitoring, scientific projects, fishing, and other forms of obtaining marine samples ( ex: stranding of marine animals)
Prepare a legal text for regulating marine bioprospecting activities and the use of collected resources and developed from the harvest, as well and the use of resources collected and developed from harvests, as well as the use of samples already collected and stored and their development. Aiming to be the source of the most innovative and promoting law of investing in blue biotechnology worldwide.
Be the national repository for marine biodiversity, creating and organising collections of living cultures, in order to contribute to programs for the conservation and recuperation of marine ecosystems.
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