Key Contributors update 23 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. Contact andy.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.

The next Key Contributors Update will come out in two weeks, on 6 April 2018.

For action New

Survey to Nodes on the ELIXIR Collaboration Agreement Template

Please fill in this survey by 13 April. We would like to receive one answer per Node, and are especially interested in hearing your practical experiences with the Collaboration Agreement Template and the Annexes.
EXCELERATE WPLs are asked to inform the ELIXIR Hub Project Management Unit (grants@elixir-europe.org) of any amendments you would like to have incorporated in to the 3rd Grant Agreement Amendment. If it has/will have an impact on the current work plan, effort or budget, please also inform the WP Leader(s) affected. Deadline: 5 April.
Following the ELIXIR Equal Opportunity Webinar on Wednesday, 14th 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.
ELIXIR at ISMB 2018

ELIXIR will have a special track and a booth at the ISMB 2018 conference in Chicago on 6-10 July 2018. The ELIXIR track will take place on the last day 10 July (morning and afternoon track). Please let us know if you are planning to attend and if your Node is planning a have booth.

For action Ongoing

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.
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, immediatelly after Easter. 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.
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.
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

ELIXIR FP9 Position Paper
ELIXIRs Position Paper on FP9 is now live and on the ELIXIR website. The document will likely be updated throughout 2018 as and when the European Commission and European Parliament make their formal proposals for the structure and budget of FP9.

NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science consultation

The NIH has opened a consultation on its Strategic Plan for Data Science. The draft ELIXIR response will be developed here. The deadline is 2 April, and the draft will take shape over the coming days.
EOSC roadmap published
The EC has published the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Implementation Roadmap, setting out how it intends to implement the EOSC.

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