Hub updates
The ELIXIR Board held its spring meeting in Utrecht, Netherlands last week. A full summary from the meeting is available via the ELIXIR website.
The new ELIXIR website design will be put live on Wednesday evening. Thanks to all those who voted on the designs and provided feedback! Feel free to provide more feedback once the site is live (email webmaster@elixir-europe.org). The changes will not affect the content or structure of the site, just its appearance.
If you would like to keep in touch with the latest developments and plans for the site then let Martin Cook know. He sends brief periodic updates about what's happening on the site to a small mailing list.
Updates from Platforms
ELIXIR will be holding a Core Resources for a Data Economy Conference in Brussels on 11 May 2017. The conference will bring together funders, policy-makers and researchers in industry and academia to discuss the importance of data infrastructures for innovation and growth. Representatives from ELIXIR Nodes are welcome to attend. Register here. Applications for the Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastructures are now open. This programme aims at Research Infrastructures managers and leaders, tuition fees will be waived for the first run of this course set to start in September 2017. The AARC project organised an ELIXIR training for service administrators in ELIXIR Nodes who want to use the ELIXIR AAI to manage access to their services. Report from the event is available on the AARC website.
Update from Nodes
NeIC (Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration) extended the Tryggve collaboration into a new three-year project - Tryggve2. The plan is to launch Tryggve2 on 21 October 2017, directly following the current project period.
Job board
The ELIXIR Hub is seeking a Chief Technical Officer, a Head of ELIXIR Project Management Unit and a Scientific Administrator (Administrative Officer) to join the team.
ELIXIR Luxembourg is seeking a Data Steward to join the Node.
ELIXIR Belgium has three openings, for ELIXIR Trainer, Software Developer and for Data Science Cloud Coordinator.
Upcoming events
See the ELIXIR TeSS portal for all events organised by ELIXIR Nodes. ELIXIR events
11 May 2017 | Brussels, Belgium
ELIXIR Core Resources for a Data Economy Conference
22-24 May 2017 | Cambridge, UK
ELIXIR/GOBLET/GTN hackathon for Galaxy training material re-use
30 May - 1 June 2017 | Ghent, Belgium
ELIXIR BrAPI BYOD/hackathon
6-7 June 2017 | Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Genomics, bioInformatics and health - Private-Public partnerships around open data
3-5 July 2017 | Cambridge, UK
EXCELERATE Train-the-Trainer in Clinical bioinformatics and best practices workshop