Key Contributors update 15 June 2018

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 joana.wingender@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

Ongoing

Final Reminder! Recently thirteen Member States (including many ELIXIR countries) signed an EU Declaration on providing access to 1 million human 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 have generated a brief survey to gather information on its impact.
This survey is open until today (Friday 15 June) and we would like one reply per Node.

For information

2019-2023 Programme - Nodes' participation

On Monday 18 June, the Hub will send the draft 2019-23 programme and Financial Plan to the ELIXIR Board, in preparation for the extraordinary Board meeting taking place on 2 July in Barcelona.

Shortly after this, the Heads of Nodes will be sent a request to indicate their Nodes' priorities within the tasks in the Programme, as discussed at the HoN meeting in Berlin. The deadline for Nodes to return their preferred activities will be Friday 13 July. Please expect to receive an email from Niklas early next week.

Key dates and meetings

Extraordinary ELIXIR Board meeting

  • 2 July 2018, Barcelona, Spain

SAB Teleconference

  • 21 June 2018

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