Key Contributors update 6 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 Deadline Approaching

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.

For action Ongoing

Thank you to the Heads of Node/substitute Deputy HoN who have registered for the Core Data Resource Consensus Ranking meeting on 9th May (Schiphol airport). Currently half the Nodes are represented in this meeting, at which attendance of all HoN (or Deputy) is expected; the link for the Registration can be found here (Draft Agenda here). The deadline for Registration is 21 April.
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.
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.
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

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 21 April 2018.

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