For Action Ongoing
Emerging Toxicology community white paper
The emerging Toxicology community is presenting its white paper draft for consultation. We welcome everyones feedback on the white paper. Please send your comments (as comments in the pdf document) to Katharina (katharina.heil@elixir-europe.org) no later than Thursday, 10 June 2021.
If you would like to join the Toxicology Community once the white paper was accepted, please reach out to Katharina Heil to speak about the details.
Agro-Ecological Transitions Proposal
As we have previously announced, the ELIXIR Hub, together with the Plant Community are currently involved in the preparation of the INFRA-SERV 2021 call (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-SERV-01-03): Research Infrastructures services for a sustainable and resilient agriculture and agro-ecological transitions (draft call on Google Drive).
If you have not yet been approached by or reached out to Cyril, Kristina, Sebastian (Plant Community co-leads) or Katharina Heil (Communities Coordinator), there is still an opportunity to show interest. If you or anyone else in your Nodes would like to explore possibilities to contribute to this proposal, please take this last opportunity to let Katharina know via katharina.heil@elixir-europe.org.
For more information / next steps you can also:
Join the Data and interoperability for plant sciences workshop (Tuesday, 1 June 2021, 13.00 - 15:00 CEST)
(Registration for All Hands meeting required)
Join the Plant Community call on Monday, 14 June at 16:00 (CEST)
(Please contact Katharina Heil to receive connection details).
For Information
Update on EOSC Association
We recently requested that Nodes register the status of their institutions and individuals as members, or intending members of the EOSC Association during 2021. As previously stated ELIXIR is unable to become a Member since EMBL, which lends its legal entity to ELIXIR, is already a Member in its own right and the same legal entity cant become a member twice. However, we can use the information provided by Nodes to help ELIXIR engage and shape discussions taking place within the EOSC Association.
This document remains open to further additions from our Nodes. We will have an update from EMBL on the Association during the forthcoming All Hands EOSC Mini Symposium on 2 June. A second call for Task Force membership will be opened by the EOSC Association shortly and is expected to close on 16 June. The Task Forces will be grouped under 5 Advisory Groups covering: Implementation of EOSC; Technical Challenges in EOSC; Metadata and Data Quality; Research Careers and Curricula; Sustaining EOSC. The full list of Task Forces is provided in the Node Association sheet linked above.
For further enquiries and information please contact Jonathan Tedds (jonathan.tedds@elixir-europe.org) at the Hub.
Key Dates and Meetings
Heads of Nodes TC
9 September 2021 | 11:00-14:00 (CEST)
Heads of Nodes TC
9 December 2021 | 11:00-14:00 (CET)