Key Contributors update 20 April 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 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

Ongoing

The draft ELIXIR 2019-23 Programme was shared with the ELIXIR Board 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.
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

Final Reminder! - 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 tomorrow on 21 April 2018.

IMI Call 14 open


The Innovative Medicines Initiative has four topics currently open within Call 14. The Topic on the 'Development of a platform for federated and privacy-preserving machine learning in support of drug discovery' may be of interest to ELIXIR Nodes. Full details are available on the IMI website.

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