Review of Activities (Jan1990 – Aug 2001) see original version

The global network of Microbial Resources Centres, actually existing academic and/or research institutes in the developed and developing countries participate in a global collaborative networking effort for the harnessing of the beneficial applications of the microbial world for human progress through the vehicle of international scientific co-operation. Research and training programmes, within the framework of UNESCO's regular, participation and extrabudgetary programmes, are carried out in co-operation with the concerned National Commissions of Member States and governmental authorities.

NETWORK OBJECTIVES

The objectives of the world-wide MIRCEN network are to:
 

• a) provide a global infrastructure which would incorporate national, regional, and inter-regional co-operating laboratories geared to the management, distribution, and utilization of the microbial gene pools;
• b) reinforce the conservation of microorganisms, with emphasis on Rhizobium gene pools, in developing countries, with an agrarian base;
• c) foster the development of new inexpensive technologies native specific regions;
• d) promote the economic and environmental applications of microbiology; and
• e) serve as focal centres in the network for the training of manpower.