ELIXIR Focus Groups are agile structures that bring interested parties together around a particular topic. Typically they are used to address emerging areas of interest and seek to identify a strategy that ELIXIR can follow.
Establishing a Focus Group may lead to a new ELIXIR Community, but that is not the default intention. In most cases that will not happen. In addition, it will not be a requirement for a proposed new Community to have previously been a Focus Group.
Focus Groups are open to any member of ELIXIR plus, where useful, external parties. They are established by a lightweight approval process, at the discretion of the ELIXIR Director.
You can find the rationale, a more detailed description, and the application form to create a Focus Group, in this Google Doc.
Current Focus Groups
- Biocuration
- Communities Future
- Domestic Animals Genome and Phenome
- Environmental Impact
- EOSC
- FAIR Training
- Health Data
- Learning Paths
- Machine Learning (AI)
- Pathogen Data
- Professionalising Careers in Research Infrastructures
- Research Data Alliance (RDA) Activities
Past Focus Groups
- Biodiversity. In May 2023 this group became the Biodiversity Community
- Cancer Data. In February 2024 this group became the Cancer Data Community
- Systems Biology. In May 2022 this group became the Systems Biology Community
- Registries (2020–22)