b'NBIC is actively addressing this need by establishingMembership of the British Standard Institute (BSI), networks and collaborations and engaging in a variety ofcontributing to the CH/216 committee on Chemical initiatives and research projects: Disinfectants and Antiseptics, where NBICs CEO Mark The International Biofilm Standards Task Group, a multi- Richardson will be chairing a newly established working centre collaboration between NBIC, USA Center for Biofilmgroup on biofilms, set to explore possible new areas of Engineering, the Singapore Centre for Environmental Lifestandardisation work.Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), and an EU CooperationResearch collaborations with the UKs National in Science and Technology (COST) action AMICI wasMeasurement System institutes. formed in 2020 to guide the international developmentThese include: and acceptance of standardised biofilm models and test methods in healthcare, environment and industry. (1) The development of biofilm reference materials with We were successful in our application for a UKRI BBSRC- LGC, funded by the NBIC POC4 programme.funded partnering award. (2) Collaboration with National Institute for Biological Participation in the EU COST action: Euro-MIC EuropeanStandards and Control (NIBSC), part of Medicines and Microbially Influenced Corrosion NetworkNew PathsHealth Regulatory Agency (MHRA), on development of for Science, Sustainability and Standards and is alsobiofilm preservation technologies.co-developing a proposal for a COST action tackling the(3) Department for Business, Energy and Industrial reproducibility of biofilm-related methods. Strategy (BEIS) funded project, in the first quarter of 2021, Co-organisation of a focus session on biofilmcarried out together with the National Physical Laboratory, standardisation, at the 18th International Biodeteriorationpiloting the development of reproducible biofilm models.& Biodegradation Symposium (IBBS) at Montana State University, USA in September 2021.23'