The update to ELIXIR Heads of Nodes is sent weekly on Friday afternoon. Training and Technical Coordinators are also copied in. Contact nicola.kay@elixir-europe.org for any questions.
Action items
We would like your assistance in finding dates for HoNs meetings and teleconferences for the remainder of 2017. Please help us by completing the following doodle polls by Monday 16 January:
- Doodle poll for HoNs TC in
March 2017
- Doodle poll for ELIXIR HoNs retreat in June 2017
- Doodle poll for one day meeting to review the 2018 Work Plan and Budget in September 2017
- Doodle poll for a HoNs TC in December 2017
Dates for the meetings will then be confirmed in due course.
ELIXIR Platform Leads are also invited to take part in ELIXIR HoNs meetings and teleconferences by open invitation.
We also expect that there will be a opportunity for HoNs to meet briefly as part of the ELIXIR SAB meeting being held alongside the ELIXIR All Hands on 20 March, if required.
Registration for this meeting and the next ELIXIR HoNs meeting on 6 Feb can be found below.
Registration for HoNs meeting to review Core Data Resources
Registration is now open for the next ELIXIR HoNs meeting to be held at Heathrow, UK on 6 Feb 2017, to review ELIXIR Core Data Resources. The meeting will be held in close proximity to Heathrow airport and timed in order that most people should be able to travel in and out of the meeting within one day. A full agenda for the meeting will be made available in due course.
Registration for SAB meeting at ELIXIR All Hands
HoNs are invited to attend the ELIXIR SAB meeting to be held alongside the ELIXIR All Hands on 20 March 2017, 12.00 - 18.00. It is expected that there will be opportunity for HoNs to meet briefly as part of this meeting, if required (when the SAB meets in closed session). Please register if you plan to attend.
Sign up for the ELIXIR All Hands meeting is by separate registration. Register for the ELIXIR All Hands meeting here.
ELIXIR draft responses to EC and NIH consultations
ELIXIR's draft Position Paper for the Horizon 2020 Interim Evaluation and its draft response to the NIH consultation on Data Management are now available for comment. Please send any comments, in Track Changes, to Andrew Smith by 13 January 2017. We will incorporate any comments as best we can before final formatting of references etc and submission by the respective deadlines (15 January for H2020 and 19 January for NIH).
For information
Minutes from HoNs TC, December 2016
The minutes from the ELIXIR HoNs TC on 8 December can be found on google drive.
Key dates and meetings
Heads of Node meeting (to review submissions to the ELIXIR Core Data Resource Process)
- 6 February 2017, Heathrow, UK
ELIXIR All Hands meeting
- 21-23 March 2017, Rome, Italy (preceded by ELIXIR SAB meeting, 20 March 2017)
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE midterm review
- 10 May 2017, Brussels, Belgium
ELIXIR Policy event:
- 11 May 2017, Brussels, Belgium, Time and agenda TBC