For Action

Ongoing

Update -Deadlines for submission of Proposals for Commissioned Services

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OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers: Very Large Research Infrastructures

ELIXIR is featured strongly in the latest OECD report on the common challenge of setting up and running large, global Research Infrastructures across different disciplines.

Check the report

For Action

New

Deadlines for submission of Proposals for Commissioned Services

Nodes wishing to submit proposals for Commissioned Services aiming to begin in January 2024 are asked to submit them to proposals [at] elixir-europe.org by Tuesday, 15 August 2023.

The review process will be as follows:

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New staff in the Hub

Magda Chegkazi joins ELIXIR Hub Human Genomics and Translational Data team as a Programme Manager. She will take responsibility for organising the delivery and impact of our portfolio of projects, ensuring consistency and synergies across the portfolio.

For Action

New

Collaboration with Armenia through Horizon Europe Twinning

We have been approached by the Armenian Institute of Bioinformatics who would like to partner with experts from ELIXIR Nodes in a Horizon Europe Twinning proposal (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02-01). In particular, they are looking for partners with experience in establishing national databanks or with the capacity to support the data stewardship training to build and successfully implement a genomics database. A summary of their idea is here:

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Assessing the performance and impact of research infrastructures An annotated bibliography

This document collates, in the form of an annotated bibliography, a wide range of published works that are relevant to assessing the performance and impact of research infrastructures. This is the first public-facing version of an otherwise internal document, never meant to be exhaustive, yet very likely to be useful to others outside of ELIXIR.

Find out more

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Webinar: Increasing capacity in impact evaluation in a life science research infrastructure

3 October 2023 | 12:00-13:00 CEST | Online

This ELIXIR impact webinar will present the outcomes of the project "Impact evaluation at Node-level - getting it done", funded by ELIXIR-CONVERGE and ELIXIR.

For Information

Outcomes of ELIXIR Heads of Nodes TC, 14 September

We would like to thank Heads of Nodes for joining us for the TC on 14 September.

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New ExCo of the Compute Platform

We are happy to announce that Jana Broncov will be joining us from the Czech Node as our newest ExCo of the Compute Platform. Jana will be replacing Ludk Matyska and will begin in her position on 1 January 2024. We would like to send a big welcome and look forward to working with her!

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All Hands 2023 meeting report published

Two versions of the All Hands 2023 meeting report have been published:

External version - with external links to posters and presentations which have been uploaded to F1000

Internal version - with internal links to all agendas, posters and presentations