PRISC | Portuguese Research Infrastructure for Scientific Collections
Scientific collections - rocks, fossils, minerals, botanical gardens, historical scientific instruments and medical instruments, herbaria, zoology specimens, ethno-botanicals, soil and ice cores, DNA, seed & tissue banks, sound archives and specific documental sources - are invaluable sources for the national and international scientific system in a wide range of cross-disciplinary fields. They can only be used, however, if collections are preserved and made accessible according to international standards. PRISC brings together expertise and resources to transform a heterogeneous and dispersed landscape into a coherent and sustainable national infrastructure of scientific collections for national and international users from the sciences and humanities. Through its services, PRISC delivers wellpreserved and accessible collections that may be increasingly used in current and future research, post-graduate teaching and science communication for general audiences.
Coordinating Institution | Universidade de Lisboa, throught its Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência (MUHNAC-UL).
Partners Institutions | Universidade do Porto,through its Museu de História Natural e da Ciência (MHNC-UP), e Universidade de Coimbra through its Museu de Ciência (MCUC) e Jardim Botânico (JBUC).
Services
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Public and open access to scientific collections.
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Storage space for scientific collections.
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Conservation of scientific collections, consulting on scientific collections, training in scientific collections, and outreach activities.