Action items
HoNs and EXCELERATE WP leaders to review the final agenda and pre-reading materials (https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4WQQq4hwmbQfndWMjB3cE9Dc0pZMUR…) for next week's HoNs/EXCELERATE WP leaders meeting.
* EXCELERATE partners to ensure they transfer their payment information as soon as possible. As per Stephanie Suhr's email dated 19th August.
From last week's update:
* EXCELERATE Project Partners to ensure your Legal Signatory signs the EXCELERATE Grant Agreement in the Participant Portal (http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html) as soon as possible, and by 10 September at the latest. Pre-payment can only be transferred once all signatures are in place.
* All to ensure this spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DBWDy04VM9zHCbNgx2I32vW_hDO2CTT…) on specific personnel involved in EXCELERATE activities from your Node is completed as necessary, and forwarded within your Node as required.
* Platform and User Community Work Package leaders to prepare for the HoNs/EXCELERATE WP leaders' meeting next week and complete this slide template (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4WQQq4hwmbQbUQ4WEpDWkNzNzQ/view) . Any questions regarding the template should be sent to susanna.repo@elixir-europe.org (mailto:susanna.repo@elixir-europe.org) .
HoN and EXCELERATE WP leaders' meeting (2-3 Sept)
The final agenda, pre-reading materials and assignment of each participant to a breakout session group for this meeting can now be found in the meeting folder on google driv (https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4WQQq4hwmbQfnYwTlA0MlJLVXZvRUp…) .Platform and User Community Work Package leaders are asked to complete this slide template (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4WQQq4hwmbQbUQ4WEpDWkNzNzQ/view) in preparation for the meeting. Any questions regarding the template should be sent to susanna.repo@elixir-europe.org (mailto:susanna.repo@elixir-europe.org) .
Planned changes to the weekly updates from the Hub
To coincide with the launch of the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE project next week, we would like to start making our all-at-nodes updates more frequent, with updates to go out on a weekly basis, in order to ensure everyone involved in ELIXIR is kept up to date with ongoing activities.These updates will in effect replace the current 'HoNs updates', however, action items specifically for HoNs will still be circulated by separate email each Friday.
Dates confirmed for Capacity Building Workshop on Node organisation & governance
A 2-day WP10 workshop on capacity building focusing on Node organisation and governance has now been confirmed to take place in Brussels on 3rd and 4th of November 2015. The exact location of the meeting will be confirmed in due course. In the meantime please make a note of the dates in your diaries.
Reminder of Key Meetings/Dates
HoN and EXCELERATE WP leads meeting (2-3 Sept) (https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4WQQq4hwmbQfnYwTlA0MlJLVXZvRUp…)
ELIXIR Board meeting, Hinxton, Cambridge (22 - 23 Oct)Symposium: Open bridges for life science data, Hinxton, UK (17-18 Nov) (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-bridges-for-life-science-data-regis…)CORBEL Kick off meeting (19 Nov)ELIXIR SAB (8-9 Dec)/EXCELERATE kick off meeting (10 Dec)
ELIXIR all-hands meeting (8-9 Mar 2016)Key dates for EXCELERATE including details of upcoming Work Package meetings will be added to the EXCELERATE project calendar (http://elixir-europe.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=751beffce2e491f…) , as they become available. If you have any dates to add to the calendar please let us know (mailto:nicola.kay@elixir-europe.org) .Information on upcoming TrCG meetings can be found here (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rbab3GKN-Scx1nct4TlC5kaRHLLt1mn5Wks…)