Action items
This weeks actions:
EXCELERATE Project Partners to ensure your Legal Signatory signs the EXCELERATE Grant Agreement as soon as possible, and by 10 September at the latest. For further details see below.
From last week's update:
* Platform /Community Work Package leaders to complete this template (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4WQQq4hwmbQbUQ4WEpDWkNzNzQ/view) in advance of the HoNs/EXCELERATE WP leaders meeting in September. Any questions regarding the template should be sent to susanna.repo@elixir-europe.org (mailto:susanna.repo@elixir-europe.org) .
* All to ensure this spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DBWDy04VM9zHCbNgx2I32vW_hDO2CTT…) on specific personnel involved in EXCELERATE activities from your Node is completed as necessary, and forward it within your Nodes as required.
Update on preparations for ELIXIR-EXCELERATE
The EXCELERATE Grant Agreement has now been counter-signed by the European Commission and the Participant Portal is sending out automated messages to all beneficiaries to countersign the agreement.Please make sure that your Legal Signatory signs the agreement as soon as possible.One of the legal signatories (PLSIGN) of each beneficiary must:
* go to the Participant Portal* log in using his or her ECAS account* select the "My Area" tab* go to the "My Project(s)" page* select the action for which an accession form is to be signed
* and sign the form online.(Additional information: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/… 2020-guide-gap_en.pdf)
PLEASE NOTE: If a beneficiary does not sign the accession form within 30 days of the grant agreement entering into force, the Commission or agency reserves the right to terminate the grant agreement. This means that each beneficiary must have signed their accession form NO LATER THAN 30 days from EC signature on 11 August, i.e. Thursday, 10 September 2015.Contact EXCELERATE Project Manager, Stephanie Suhr, (mailto:stephanie.suhr@elixir-europe.org) if you have any questions.We are also still missing some Consortium Agreement signatures, we will be in contact with those partners directly.Upcoming events and opportunities which may be of interest to ELIXIR Nodes
Registrations closing soon for the SIB workshop "Bioinformatics in the Chalet", September 6-11, 2015
This workshop is a rather special learning experience for PhDs and postdocs from the ELIXIR Nodes. They will learn how to come up with an original bioinformatics research project with a few ELIXIR-CH faculty, in a charming place with a breathtaking view.More information about it can be found here: http://www.isb-sib.ch/training/sib-phd-training-network/phd-bioinformat… circulate this information to anyone to whom it may be of interest.
Reminder of Key Meetings/Dates
HoN and EXCELERATE WP leads meeting (2-3 Sept) (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elixir-heads-of-nodesexcelerate-work-pac…)
ELIXIR Board meeting, Hinxton, Cambridge (22 - 23 Oct)
Symposium: Open bridges for life science data, Hinxton, UK (17-18 Nov) (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-bridges-for-life-science-data-regis…)
CORBEL Kick off meeting (19 Nov)
ELIXIR SAB (8-9 Dec)/EXCELERATE kick off meeting (10 Dec)ELIXIR all-hands meeting (8-9 Mar 2016)
Key dates for EXCELERATE including details of upcoming Work Package meetings will be added to the EXCELERATE project calendar (http://elixir-europe.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=751beffce2e491f…) , as they become available. If you have any dates to add to the calendar please let us know (mailto:nicola.kay@elixir-europe.org) . Information on upcoming TrCG meetings can be found here (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rbab3GKN-Scx1nct4TlC5kaRHLLt1mn5Wks…)