IFOMIS Named Part of European Union Network of Excellence

The activities of IFOMIS in the field of biomedical ontology have been acknowledged by a major grant under the European Union's 6th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. IFOMIS thereby constitutes part of the Network of Excellence on Medical Informatics and Semantic Data Mining, which includes sixteen research institutions from throughout Europe and for which in total 5 Mio € have been allocated.

The 6th Framework Programme was established to co-ordinate and integrate research and innovative development in Europe on the national as well as on the community level. The goal is for research in the European Union to be structured in a way that is similar to the common market for goods and services. Information science is one out of seven research areas identified by the Framework Programme as of primary importance.

IFOMIS is a center of research in theoretical and applied ontology. It comprises researchers from philosophy, logic, information science, biology, medicine, and biomedical informatics. They work on an ontology of the biomedical world – a philosophical and logical theory to be tested and applied in the domains of bio- and medical informatics.

October 2003