This update is sent weekly on Friday afternoon and goes to ELIXIR key stakeholders. It contains requests for actions regarding operations and developments within ELIXIR. Contact andrew.smith@elixir-europe.org for any questions.
An ELIXIR HoNs shared folder including meeting materials from HoN meetings, reference documents, slides & graphics archive can be found on google drive.
For action
New
The draft ELIXIR 2019-23 Programme was shared with the ELIXIR Board this week, in preparation of the Board meeting taking place 24-25 April in Tel Aviv. We welcome Nodes to submit feedback on the draft. Please send compiled feedback from your Node to susanna.repo@elixir-europe.org by 4 May.
Implications of Member State Declaration on access to a million European Genomes
Thirteen Member States (including many ELIXIR countries) signed a declaration this week on providing access to 1 million genomes by 2022. ELIXIR is referenced as a key infrastructure in the Declaration itself and whilst the national implementation of this may vary between countries, ELIXIR Nodes should at least expect to be seen as a part of the picture. We would like to build an understanding of what the Declaration means for Nodes, so the topic will be discussed further in the monthly ELIXIR Human Data Communities Teleconference on Tuesday 17 April at 11am BST (12pm CEST). Please notify gary.saunders@elixir-europe.org if you, or a Human Data expert from your Node, would like to join the TC. If you cant join the TC, you can still add short summary of what you think it means to your Node directly into the agenda.
For action
Deadline approaching
Final reminder! Thank you to the Heads of Node/substitute Deputy HoN registered for the Core Data Resource Consensus Ranking meeting on 9th May. We now have most but not all Nodes represented, and attendance of all HoN (or Deputy) is expected; the link for the Registration can be found here (Draft Agenda here). The deadline for Registration is 21 April.
For action
Ongoing
Following the ELIXIR Equal Opportunity Webinar on Wednesday, 14 March, HoNs are asked to review the ELIXIR Equal Opportunity draft strategy document and provide feedback to grants@elixir-europe.org and Catherine Gater at cgater@ebi.ac.uk including answers to the questions which feature throughout the document. Slides from the webinar are available here. Deadline: 27 April.
For information
Node Posters at All Hands 2018
All ELIXIR Nodes are invited to present a poster at the ELIXIR All Hands 2018 in Berlin. This would be a great opportunity to present recent work and results from your Node and showcase the breadth of ELIXIR activities throughout our Nodes. We plan to accept all submitted posters and then publish them on the ELIXIR F1000R channel.
Please submit your posters via EasyChair, the submission deadline is 21 April 2018.
Key dates and meetings
ELIXIR Board meeting
- 24-25 April 2018 | Tel Aviv
ELIXIR Core Data Resource selection - Consensus Ranking meeting
- 9 May 2018 | Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Heads of Nodes meeting @ ELIXIR All Hands
- 6-7 June 2018, Berlin, Germany
Heads of Nodes meeting @ ECCB 2018
- 13 September 2018, Athens, Greece.
ELIXIR Board meeting
- 12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR 5th Anniversary event
- 11 December 2018, Brussels, Belgium
Heads of Nodes meeting
- 12 December 2018, Brussels, Belgium