On November 22, 2019, Prof. Dr. Neşe Atabey, national coordinator of BBMRI.tr, gave a seminar titled “The Role of Biobanks in Medical Research and European Research Infrastructures: BBMRI-ERIC” on the campus of İzmir Katip Çelebi University Faculty of Medicine. The seminar was attended by the provincial health director, the chief physician of the hospital and the former rector of the university. As a result of this seminar, biobank awareness was raised and the significance of biobanks in research was explained. Moreover, the positive effects of BBMRI-ERIC guided harmonization on both research quality and the national economy was underlined.