Communications

The ELIXIR Communications Group is a community for those in ELIXIR with an interest in communications to work together and share ideas and expertise. This group is also the central repository and reference point for all ELIXIR communications materials. 

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Goals
  • To provide a reference point for all communications materials developed within ELIXIR
  • To coordinate the communications activities across ELIXIR Nodes
  • To provide a platform for the ELIXIR network of communications experts
Current Activities

 

Communications Group meetings - quartely

  • Rolling agenda - with Zoom link and recordings links (where available)
  • Contact the organiser - elaine.harrison [at] elixir-europe.org

2025 Communication Group meetings

Monday 17 March 14-15:00 CET
Monday 16 June 14-15:00 CET
Monday 22 September 14-15:00 CET
Monday 1 December 14-15:00 CET

Past Communications Group meetings

2024 meetings

Monday 9 December 14-15 CET - Branding

Monday 9 September 14-15 CET - Node Communications sharing

Monday 17 June 14-15 CET - Communicating the complexities of ELIXIR

Monday 11 March 14-15 CET - Strategy communications - an overview of the new ELIXIR Programme 2024-28

2023 meetings

Monday 4 December 13:30-14:30 CET - Sharing experiences of generative AI (e.g. text and images)

Monday 18 September 14-15:00 CET - Where next with Twitter/X?

  • Slides Introduction & context, Hub perspective, comms update - Elaine Harrison and Zippy Tseng

Monday 19 June 14-15:00 CET - ELIXIR comms resources + how to write a press release

  • Slides How to write a press release (followed by Q&A) - Francesca De Leo, ELIXIR Italy
  • Slides A guide to communications resources on the ELIXIR intranet - Elaine Harrison

Monday 20 March 14-15:00 CET - Node impact videos - learning from ELIXIR-UK

  • Slides Quick tour of ELIXIR-UK impact videos (Catherine Knox)
  • ELIXIR-UK experience of creating Node videos - learnings and top tips (Catherine Knox), followed by questions
  • Dissemination of ELIXIR-UK videos (Emily Delva), followed by questions

2022 meetings

Monday 5 December 2022 - Building Node capacity in communications 

  • Slides Node development: comms considerations in INFRADEV-3 and ELIXIR Programme 2024-2028 (Andy Smith)
  • Brainstorm to identify comms-related priorities for potential inclusion in the INFRADEV grants

Monday 3 October 2022 - Placing impact at the heart of communications 

  • Slides The ELIXIR strategic implementation study on impact (Christine Stansberg, ELIXIR-NO)
  • Slides Introduction to impact communications at the Hub (Elaine Harrison (Westwick), ELIXIR Hub)
  • Slides Impact in communications at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Marie Dangles, ELIXIR-CH)

Monday 27 June 2022 - Optimising communication with scientific users

  • Oana Stroe, EMBL-EBI slides
  • Zippy Tseng, ELIXIR Hub slides
 

Past Generative AI Discussion Group meetings (2024) - the initial meeting series has now concluded

Rolling agenda - with Zoom link
Contact the organiser - elaine.harrison [at] elixir-europe.org

Membership
This group is for anyone with an interest in or expertise in communications who works in an ELIXIR Nodes or the ELIXIR Hub.
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