HoNs and EXCELERATE WP leaders' meeting
All documents related to the HoNs and EXCELERATE WP leaders' meeting, including presentation slides are available in the Google drive folder. (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4WQQq4hwmbQfnYwTlA0MlJLVXZvRUp…) The minutes will be circulated for your review and approval next week.
EXCELERATE
* All WP folders and the EXCELERATE project documentation are available for 'view' in the EXCELERATE Google drive folder (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7btK9HAXhx1flN3ek9uV05hTUVsb2ZMX1VDT…) .
* 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.
CORBEL
* The CORBEL cluster project has started this week (http://www.elixir-europe.org/news/corbel-sets-out-establish-common-infr…) . The kick-off meeting is planned for 19 November 2015 in Hinxton, following the BioMedBridges symposium (http://www.biomedbridges.eu/news/symposium-open-bridges-life-science-da…) .* ELIXIR Hub has appointed Friederike Schmidt-Tremmel as Project Manager. Friederike will take over the responsibilities for the management of CORBEL and BioMedBridges including monitoring of project delivery and budget. More information (http://www.elixir-europe.org/news/elixir-appoints-friederike-schmidt-tr…) .
Other updates
France to become ELIXIR Provisional Member
* The ELIXIR Board has approved the changes to the Provisional Membership Scheme, and thus effectively France's application to join ELIXIR as a Provisional Member. Once France completes some final administrative steps it will become a Provisional Member.Rob Hooft (TeC in ELIXIR Netherlands) is running for the Technical Advisory Board of RDA
* Rob Hooft is a candidate for the Technical Advisory Board of the Research Data Alliance (RDA). If you or your colleagues are RDA members, you can support Rob and vote for him in the upcoming elections. More information (https://rd-alliance.org/meet-candidates-rda-technical-advisory-board-20…) .Planned changes to the weekly updates from the Hub
* This is the last HoNs weekly update in its current format. Starting next week, the all-at-nodes update will go out on a weekly basis, to ensure everyone involved in ELIXIR is kept up to date with ongoing activities. These updates will in principle replace the current 'HoNs updates'. However, action items specifically for HoNs will still be circulated in a separate email.
Upcoming events
ELIXIR-GOBLET workshop on e-learning: 15 September 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The aim of the workshop is to provide an overview of e-learning systems used within ELIXIR and GOBLET and to define a common e-learning 'language' for the GOBLET and ELIXIR trainer communities. More information. (http://www.elixir-europe.org/events/elixir-goblet-workshop-defining-e-l…)
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Workshop - Capacity Building in Genome Assembly and Annotation, 9 October 2015, Uppsala, Sweden
* ELIXIR Sweden is hosting the first workshop in EXCELERATE task 10.3, 'Capacity Building in Genome Assembly and Annotation'. More information. (https://bils.se/div/assembly-annotation-ws-15.html)Two instructor workshops in life science computing
* ELIXIR-UK and Software and Data Carpentry are organising two instructor (train the trainer) workshops to provide insight into how to train life science researchers in computing: 8-9 October, London and 23-24 November, Manchester. More information (https://www.elixir-europe.org/news/elixir-uk-and-software-and-data-carp…)
Reminder of Key Meetings/Dates
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…)