ELIXIR is committed to expanding its global influence through strategic collaborations. By strengthening existing partnerships and establishing new ones, ELIXIR aims to enhance its contributions to the global life sciences community, ensuring bioinformatics resources and expertise with broad and impactful reach.
ELIXIR's International Strategy
Our International Strategy is a comprehensive framework that guides ELIXIR’s engagement and collaborations beyond Europe. It focuses on increasing global visibility, fostering strategic partnerships and contributing to international policy development. It also aims to raise the profile of ELIXIR’s flagship resources, strengthen bioinformatics services through global collaborations and actively support the development of open science and open data policies worldwide.
The strategy outlines ELIXIR’s plans for engagement with countries, regions and global organisations. It also provides examples of collaborative efforts with international initiatives, illustrating its commitment to building a cohesive global ecosystem for life science data. The objectives are as follows:
- Increase awareness of how ELIXIR’s flagship resources enable and support international research communities
- Enhance ELIXIR’s services through strategic collaborations with international bioinformatics initiatives and organisations
- Reinforce ELIXIR’s global impact by jointly shaping international policy on open science and open data
International engagement and collaborations
Use the interactive map to explore our key engagements and partnerships across different regions.
Africa×
Australia×
Our engagement with Australia and Australia BioCommons involves collaborative efforts in bioinformatics and data science to advance research capabilities and infrastructure in the life sciences.
Australian BioCommons
- Ongoing collaboration: collaboration strategy and renewal
- Milestones: visits
Asia and the Middle East×
ELIXIR collaborates with Asia and the Middle East through initiatives like bioinformatics webinars and global events like BioHackathon Europe. This BioHackathon was inspired by similar events in Japan, promoting international cooperation in the life sciences.
- Outreach webinar (India)
- BioHackathon Europe (Japan)
- ELIXIR for ASEAN researchers – slides and recording
Latin America×
ELIXIR strengthens bioinformatics ties with Latin America through initiatives like staff exchanges, collaborative training programs and outreach webinars. These efforts aim to enhance data management, training and research infrastructure across the region.
- STEERS International
- Brazil: Staff exchange and training
- ECCB 2022 outreach webinar
- Argentina: ELIXIR-STEERS Outreach Event
United States×
Canada and the United States×
ELIXIR collaborates closely with Canada and the United States through initiatives such as staff exchanges with the NIH and joint projects with Canadian institutions. These efforts aim to strengthen bioinformatics, data sharing and research infrastructure across the continent.
United States
Global organisations×
ELIXIR actively engages with a number of global organisations, initiatives and projects.
- Joint Training Strategy with GOBLET
- Research Data Alliance
- Strategic Partnership with GA4GH
- Global Biodata Coalition
Get involved
ELIXIR supports strategically-relevant interactions beyond Europe, through funding instruments such as our Staff exchange projects and Travel grants. Please reach out if you would like to know more or if you want to collaborate.
Andrea Guzmán Mesa
ELIXIR International Relations Officer
andrea.guzmanmesa@elixir-europe.org