Instruct – ERIC approval
European Research Infrastructure Instruct, which includes the Czech Integrated Structural Biology Infrastructure (CIISB), was officially ratified by the European Commission as the 17th ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium). An official celebration of ERIC status adoption takes place at the Royal Society, London on the 18th July 2017 , with Jo Johnson, ESFRI President, ESFRI, Giorgio Rossi, and other senior representatives of European scientific institutions. The Czech Republic is among the ten founding members of this European consortium.