The Swedish Ministry of Education launched in 2000 what was one of its strongest support for basic science in Sweden - 16 research schools covering widely divergent topics. The Swedish National Research School in Genomics and Bioinformatics is one of them and it is hosted by Göteborg University with partners at 4 other universities in south-western Sweden. Key-words in this initiative were university collaboration and multidisciplinarity. Scientific projects were initially selected to which 170 students from 17 different countries applied. Many projects have a pair-student design; a theoretician and an experimentalist working together within the same research project. All in all there are currently 55 PhD students who are part of the Research School.
  The Research School has a defined core curriculum that all students, independent of their discipline, should complete. These mainly represent courses and activities that are intended to widen the student's understanding of other disciplines and enhance their communication skills over discipline boarders. One of these compulsory activities are the Open Days in Genomics and Bioinformatics, which is a one-day symposium with a mix of presentations from invited speakers and students and supervisors in the school. Another compulsory activity is the summer school that has been arranged with international leaders on the themes "Phylogenomics" (2003), "Systems Biology" (2004) and "Phenomics" (2006). More specific information about the research school activities and supported projects can be found at http://www.cmb.gu.se/research_school .