Welcome to Q-CoFa

Q-CoFa: Quality assurance at the interface between Core Facilities and their users

Why Q-CoFa?

In 2016 a survey of 1500 scientists published in Nature [1] highlighted that 70% scientists could not reproduce published results. We are now all aware of the importance of quality management, however there is still room for improvements.

Mission of Q-CoFa

This website presents a compilation of practical recommendations to improve research quality and service in your core facility. These are general ideas and principles how to improve research quality. The solutions need to be customized and adapted to the specific needs of your core facility.

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Recommendations based on

• Survey results of 275 Core Facilities (in over 30 different fields) in 2020. Survey about quality and management between CF and users.
• Review of current literature
• Actual guidelines and norms

Recommendations useful for

• improving research quality
• improving efficiency and service
• review your facility (critical self-assessment)
• preparing for an audit
• setting up a new core facility

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Please contribute

This is a wiki website. Please feel free to participate to the dynamic improvement of this site. We welcome your collaboration.