[NHCOLL-L:251] Systematics collections: EC TMR/LSF Grant Programme: MNHN-PARSYST

[Nicolas Bailly]

Dear European Colleagues,

EC provides some facilities to access biological collections in some large
museums through Europe (sorry for scientists of other countries).

For the MNHN in Paris, the grant programme is called PARSYST.


European Community TMR programme
 " Access to Large Scale Facilities "
	" PARSYST "

Access to Systematics collections, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle,
Paris, France

Grants are available for Botanists, Zoologists, Paleontologists,
Environmental Biologists from the European Community , the Associated
States (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway) and Israel for research projects
involving access to the Paris Museum Systematics collections.

The next closing date for application receipt is: Monday 25 October 1999.

Application form and informations are available on the Web site:

http://www.mnhn.fr/progsc/

fax: +331 40 79 35 80


Daniel Goujet - Paleontology (goujet at mnhn.fr) is the coordinator of the
programme.

After the granting is accepted, four people can assist you to prepare your
visit, during and at the end of your stay for technical problems
(computers, optical material, ..., enter result data in collection
databases, ...):
Nicolas Bailly - Ichthyology (bailly at mnhn.fr)
Bruno Bordenave - Phanerogamy (bordenav at mnhn.fr)
Christophe Daugeron - Entomology (daugeron at mnhn.fr)
Jean-François Ducroz - Mammalogy (ducroz at mnhn.fr)

Note that all the biological collections in the MNHN may be visited and
that the
laboratory list above is not restrictive.