• Rationalization of resources, through avoiding duplication of:
  
  • physical assets such as vessels, instrumentation, equipment, laboratories, aquaria.
  
  
  • effort, through shared contributions to research and teaching.


• Achievement of goals that are beyond the scope or resources of a single organization, such as:
  
  • major capital investment in plant and facilities.
  
  
  • large and/or interdisciplinary research programs.


• Raising the overall quality of research and teaching within the consortium by:
  
  • enabling each organization to occupy a 'niche' in which the highest possible quality can be achieved.
  
  
  • giving a coherence and completeness to the aggregate research or teaching capability, so that the range and standards of the 'service' provided to the community or to user-groups can be maximised.

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