Figure 2. To fulfil their mission of enabling cutting‐edge research, core facilities have to join forces with other core facilities, research groups, institute administration, as well as building alliances across institutes.

Teamwork between core facilities is required to combine technologies and applications into new cross‐facility workflows. Technology development efforts are usually most effective when a research group and a core facility engage in a joint project. Building alliances across institutes is extremely valuable for exchanging knowledge and expertise and working on common strategies for training, technology scouting, etc.