Key Contributors Update 14 July 2017

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

Registration for ELIXIR HoNs meeting in Basel

Registration is now open for the next ELIXIR HoNs meeting which will take place alongside the BC[2] conference in Basel, Switzerland on 13 September 2017. Registration and further information regarding the meeting can be found here. Please register for the meeting as soon as possible and by 28 August at the latest if you plan to attend.

External reviewers needed - Request for Proposals - Integration of Data Resources from ELIXIR Nodes

A reminder to please pass on the names of people you feel would be appropriate for the External Review panel to review proposals for the integration of Data Resources from ELIXIR Node to proposals@elixir-europe.org, by 10 August. Any queries please contact Rachel Drysdale.

For information

Report from ELIXIR SAB summer TC

The general report issued by the ELIXIR SAB following its summer teleconference is now available here.

Horizon 2020 planning

The ELIXIR Hub has been collating the draft 2018-2020 Work Programmes for various themes in Horizon 2020. They are available in a HoN Google Drive folder here along with the slides from the H2020 planning session at the HoN retreat last month. Over the summer we will prepare and then share a H2020 Planning Document with you, summarising the topics that are likely to be of interest, including an indication of which Platform and Use Case they may be of interest to. This will form the basis for a discussion on individual topics at the Sept HoN meeting in Basel. After that, the Planning Document will be finalised and turned into a report. Please note that at present the draft Work Programmes have not been finalised, and hence may still change further before the Calls start opening at the end of the year. Please do not share the drafts outside your Node.

Report from ELIXIR RDA group

A new report from the ELIXIR RDA group from the Ninth RDA Plenary Meeting can now be found via the ELIXIR Intranet. We would like to acknowledge the members of ELIXIR's RDA Group, who actively represent ELIXIR in RDA meetings! The group can be contacted via rda-contact@elixir-europe.org.

Key dates and meetings

2017

Heads of Node meeting (to review the 2018 Work Plan and Budget)

  • 13 September 2017, Basel, Switzerland

Heads of Node TC

  • 5 December 2017, 13.00 - 16.00 UK time/14.00 - 17.00 CET

2018

ELIXIR SAB meeting

  • 1-2 February 2018, Hinxton, UK (ELIXIR HoNs welcome to attend by open invitation)

Heads of Node TC

  • 2 March 2018, 13.00-16.00 UK time /14.00-17.00 CET

Heads of Nodes meeting @ ELIXIR All Hands

  • 6-7 June 2018, Berlin, Germany

Heads of Nodes meeting @ ECCB 2018

  • to be held alongside ECCB conference taking place 9-12 September 2018 in Athens, Greece. Time/date TBC.

Heads of Node TC

  • 7 December 2018, 13.00-16.00 UK time /14.00-17.00 CET