Key Contributors update 9 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. Links to further information are in blue. Contact nicola.kay@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 New

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 4th April 2018. 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.
ELIXIR Position Paper on FP9
We welcome your comments on ELIXIRs Position Paper for FP9. The intension is to publish the paper on our website and then update throughout the year as and when the ECs and European Parliaments proposals are made. At this stage, our recommendations focus on funding schemes, particularly for research infrastructures. Please make comments directly into the Google Doc by 16 March and direct any questions to andrew.smith@elixir-europe.org.

For action Ongoing

Please send us an overview of your Node activities in 2017 for the ELIXIR Annual Report 2018. You can add your content directly to this Google doc, where you will also find short guidelines and the relevant content from the 2016 Annual Report. The deadline is today.

As notified in the HoN TC, the HoN are asked to review and agree one document through Written Procedure:

ELIXIRHON/2018/9 - Implementation Study project plans for review and agreement

Please consider if you have:

No further comments and can agree with the proposed plans;

Minor comments (please specify what these are), which you would like to see addressed but can agree with the proposed plan;

Major reservations, which means that you cannot agree with the proposed plan in its current form.

Please provide your feedback and comments on the document to Susanna Repo by 15 March 2018.

Registry Working Group.

Following discussions with the Platform ExCos over the past few weeks, Nodes are invited to nominate participants to join a new ELIXIR Working Group focussed on Registries. Members of the group are expected to directly manage one of the many Registries that the Nodes own or have a key interest in the field.

The group is expected to cover: Mapping the Registry landscape across ELIXIR and more widely; Designing a process whereby key Registries can be selected and linked to other efforts such as EOSC, and more broadly building a strategy for how these key, cross-Platform assets, are managed and developed.

Responses with names of nominees, by March 16th, and any questions should be made to: Jerry Lanfear ELIXIR CTO

For information

Minutes from the ELIXIR HoNs TC held last Friday 2 March are now available on Google Drive. As discussed at the HoN TC, the Hub is working towards finalising project plans for Nodes to join ongoing Implementation Studies. We expect to be able to send you the first batch of project plans for review early next week.

Invitation to attend EFPIA meeting on European Health Futures Collaborations
ELIXIR has been invited by EFPIA to attend a meeting in Brussels on 21 March on a new European Health Futures Collaboration (EHFC). The attached letter provides further information on the purpose of the initiative. No one from the Hub is able to attend the meeting, but it may be of interest to an ELIXIR Node that is focussed on integration with healthcare data. Please reply to niklas.blomberg@elixir-europe.org if you are interested in attending. It is likely there will be only one place, so first come first served rules will apply.

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.

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