We often explain and communicate the impact of work funded by, and through, ELIXIR using categories of impact.
Discover ELIXIR's impact categories
Literally any activity done under the umbrella of ELIXIR can be attached to one or more of these impact categories:
We make infrastructure, bioinformatics resources and processes faster, easier to use and more integrated.
We create and disseminate new knowledge on research infrastructure, bioinformatics resources and related guidelines
We facilitate knowledge sharing and cooperation
We raise awareness of socio-economic and societal benefits of bioinformatics and open science
We shape policy in the area of open science
We raise awareness of diversity and inclusiveness
We upskill resource users and service providers
We work to increase ELIXIR’s visibility with its funders
We work to increase resource usage and appreciation by users
Slides and icons are freely available for reuse and may be cited as Figure 1 in Demonstrating public value to funders and other stakeholders—the journey of ELIXIR, a virtual and distributed research infrastructure for life science data (Martin et al, 2021). The article also includes, as supporting information, an initial set of indicators for monitoring ELIXIR’s performance and impact. An updated version of these indicators is now available.
ELIXIR members can access further resources on performance and impact evaluation in the Documents section of the Impact Focus Group.