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IBiSA — Infrastructures en Biologie Santé et Agronomie

Overview

IBiSA is a Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique (GIS) founded in 2007 under the impulsion of the MESR, the major French research organisations, and France Universités. Its core mission is to identify, label, and fund technological platforms and biological resource centres (CRB) of regional or national significance across all domains of biology, health, and agronomy. IBiSA is the unique instrument of shared financing common to all its partner institutions in life sciences.

IBiSA played a foundational role in shaping the current French research infrastructure landscape: its labelling and structuring actions between 2007 and 2013 directly enabled the emergence of the first Infrastructures Nationales en Biologie-Santé (INBS), and the vast majority of platforms now listed on the MESR national roadmap carry the IBiSA label.

Structure and Governance

IBiSA operates as a GIS (Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique), a contractual consortium with no legal personality of its own, governed by its eight member institutions: CNRS, INSERM, INRAE, CEA, INRIA, INCa (Institut National du Cancer), France Universités, and the MESR (via DGRI and DGES). The GIS is administered by a secretariat based in Paris and coordinated by a steering committee drawn from its member organisations.

Missions

IBiSA runs annual competitive calls (appels d’offres Plateformes and CRB) to award its label to platforms and biological resource centres demonstrating scientific excellence, openness to the community, and quality management. The IBiSA label is a nationally recognised mark of quality for French life sciences platforms and is a prerequisite for membership in most INBS. IBiSA also provides direct financial support to labelled platforms for equipment investment and methodological or technological development projects, and is the only funding instrument shared across all member institutions in the life sciences. A third strand of activity covers quality management and certification, including ISO-aligned approaches and training workshops on quality practice and ecological footprint. Finally, IBiSA acts as intermediary and facilitator between the full network of 27 INBS and their supervising institutions, participating in the INBS club, advising on structural and operational optimisation, and supporting the creation of regional governance structures and disciplinary networks.

Relationship to INBS

All platforms within the INBS ecosystem are typically IBiSA-labelled. IBiSA thus operates one level below the INBS tier: where INBS are the federated national infrastructures (e.g. France BioImaging, France Life Imaging, IFB), IBiSA is the body that individually labels and funds the constituent platforms that make up those infrastructures.

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