Weekly Brief, 29 July 2024

This week's highlights

2024 State of Open Infrastructure: Trends in characteristics, funding, governance, adoption, and policy

Invest in Open Infrastructure published a report to review the latest open science policies across Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the United States, focusing on their implications for open digital research infrastructures.

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Recommended reads

Creating cloud platforms for supporting FAIR data management in biomedical research projects

An EOSC-Life paper

Biomedical research projects are becoming increasingly complex and require technological solutions that support all phases of the data lifecycle and application of the FAIR principles. The Berlin Institute of Health developed a flexible and cost-effective approach to building customised cloud platforms for supporting research projects. In this article, the authors present their approach and argue that building customised cloud platforms can offer multiple advantages over using multi-project platforms.


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Purpose definition as a crucial step for determining the legal basis under the GDPR: implications for scientific research

A B1MG | GDI paper

In this article, the authors provide conceptual clarity around GDPR compliance with respect to one core aspect of the law: the determination and relevance of the purpose of personal data processing. To illustrate the practical necessity of purpose specification for GDPR compliance, the authors show how the proposed approach can enable controllers to meet compliance obligations, using the example of the overarching GDPR principle of lawfulness to highlight the relevance of purpose specification for the identification of a suitable legal basis.

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Updates from Nodes

Training course: Design your training material in a FAIR way

18 - 19 September 2024 | Uppsala, Sweden
Application deadline: 23 August 2024

This 2-day course co-organised by ELIXIR Belgium and ELIXIR Sweden is based on the FAIR training handbook and 10 simple rules to make material FAIR publication. The aim of the course is to introduce participants to a theoretical and hands-on approach of how to design FAIR training material.

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SIB Profile 2024 - Data scientists for life

This activity report sets out how SIB contributes to Switzerlands influence in the life sciences, from fighting diseases or supporting innovation to promoting scientific excellence and open science.

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Updates from Platforms

ELIXIR Interoperability Platform face-to-face meeting

25 - 26 November 2024 | Hybrid - Manchester, UK

Join the dynamic and interactive ELIXIR Interoperability Platform face-to-face meeting. Platform members will meet to consolidate the great progress made this year and look to define the direction of the next one. All ELIXIR members are welcome to register.

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Updates from other initiatives

Enhancing biodiversity genomics applications

Biodiversity Genomics Europe has selected 20 projects to be part of the ERGA-BGE call Enhancing Biodiversity Genomics Applications for Ongoing Case Studies. The projects selected are ongoing initiatives that leverage high-quality reference genomes to boost biodiversity conservation or to investigate how sustainably managed species contribute to our economy and health.

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Annual report on research and technological development activities of the European Union and monitoring of Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 in 2023

This report provides a non-exhaustive overview of the EUs key research and innovation activities in 2023 and monitoring of Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020 and the Euratom Research and Training programme.

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Upcoming ELIXIR events & webinars

ELIXIR Training Courses & Webinars

The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes. For more, visit TeSS portal

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

ECCB 2024
16 - 20 September 2024 | Turku, Finland

ELIXIR Single-Cell Omics Community meeting
16 - 17 September 2024 | Helsinki, Finland

ELIXIR Data Platform F2F 2024
1 - 2 October 2024 | Padova, Italy

ELIXIR STEERS WP2 & WP3 workshop
2 - 3 October 2024 | Padova, Italy

BioHackathon Europe 2024
4 - 8 November 2024 | Barcelona, Spain

ELIXIR Federated Human Data Community day
19 November 2024 | Lisbon, Portugal

Job vacancies

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BioFAIR Director

Earlham Institute

Postdoctoral Research Scientist - Gut Cell Atlas

Earlham Institute

Postdoctoral Research Scientist - Engineering plant-beneficial rhizobacteria

Earlham Institute

Career Development Fellows

Earlham Institute

Group Leader in Engineering Biology

Earlham Institute