Financing is provided by the European Commission, Sixth Famework Programme: Structuring the European Research Area Specific Programme Project title: An open-access system for developing and supporting distributed knowledge centres for taxonomic data - a pilot study targeting EU phytoplanktonProject Acronym: PLANKTON*NET

Co-financing is provided by the Alfred Wegener Institut for Polar and Marine Research

Co-financing is provided by the Helmholtz Gemeinschaft

Further Funding was provided by the Bremerhavener Gesellschaft für Investitionsförderung (BIS)

Co-financing by the European Union