Key Contributors update 16 March 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. Links to further information are in blue. Contact nicola.kay@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

HoN are asked to review and agree one document through Written Procedure:

ELIXIRHON/2018/11 - Implementation Study project plans for review and agreement

HoN should consider if each attached project plan:
  • is ready to be approved as is;
  • needs minor modifications and with these modifications the Nodes may join the Implementation Study starting from 1 June 2018 (please specify required modifications);
  • needs major revisions and therefore the Node cannot join the study.
Please provide your feedback and comments on the document to Susanna Repo by 29 March 2018.
Please note that all Heads of Node, or substitute deputy HoN, will need to Register for the Core Data Resource Consensus Ranking meeting on 9th May (Schiphol airport) at which attendance is expected; the link for Registration can be found here (Draft Agenda here). The deadline for Registration is 21 April.

For action Ongoing

Heads of Nodes have been assigned their roles in the review process for the second round of Core Data Resource selection. Those HoN generating reviews are reminded that the deadline for return of reviews is 4 April 2018. The weekend preceding the deadline is a public holiday in many countries. Hence this note to keep the CDR process in your mind, as you plan your next few weeks. Please contact rachel.drysdale@elixir-europe.org with any questions, or if you anticipate being unable to meet the deadline.
EXCELERATE WPL are asked to complete a sustainability survey, the deadline is 16 April 2018. For more details see the minutes of the WPL meeting.

For information

The document ELIXIRHON/2018/9 - Implementation Study project plans for review and agreement has now been agreed with no further comments.
ELIXIR Scientific Administrator, Nicola Kay, will leave ELIXIR next week. Her replacement, Joana Wingender, will start at the ELIXIR Hub 16 April. In the meantime, please contact Andrew Smith with any queries.

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