Weekly Brief, 7 February 2022

This week's highlights

ELIXIR has provided 5.1 million in funding to 29 new projects, known as Commissioned Services, that launched 1 January 2022.

The projects advance ELIXIR services, resources, and Platform and Community activities.

See the full list

Closing 3 March

We are looking for a dynamic and accomplished manager to join us as Head of Operations to drive operational efficiency and lead the resourcing and implementation of ELIXIR's programme. Please share amongst your networks.
Find out more and apply

BY-COVID communications material released

Factsheet

Getting started with impact evaluation webinar

10 March 2022 | 09:00-11:30 CET

Registration is open for a repeat webinar for the fully subscribed evaluation training event, there is no limit to the number of attendees. Anyone interested in impact (of research infrastructures) is welcome to join, you do not need to be part of ELIXIR.

Read the programme and register

Call for new member of the ELIXIR Industry Advisory Committee (IAC)

Candidates from life science companies are invited to join the ELIXIR Industry Advisory Committee (IAC).

Applications are particularly encouraged from experts in the fields of plant and crop, food and nutrition sciences, as well as scientific publishing, AI and machine learning in life sciences.

Find out more and apply

Updates from Nodes

Data Stewardship training program for life sciences

The BioData.pt | ELIXIR PT Data Stewardship Program for the Life Sciences is the first training programme dedicated to data stewards in life sciences.

The ideal trainee

has a PhD in life sciences
has a permanent position and an interest in data
can commit to the whole training program
will use the training to support their institution in data management, FAIR data and open science policies

Find out more

Two new ELIXIR-LU Node services

ELIXIR Luxemburg have two new Node Services:

Disease Maps Development and Hosting
FAIR Cookbook (joint Node service with ELIXIR-UK)

Find out more (scroll down to Services table)

Slides on software intellectual property for programmers

Rob Hooft presented at a workshop organised by the European Joint Programme for Rare Diseases (EJP-RD) on the intellectual property and licenses for programmers.

View the slides

Updates from Platforms

Register for the Training Platform meeting

16-18 March 2022 | Brussels, Belgium and virtually

Registration deadline (for in-person attendance) - 16 February
After two years, the Training Platform, including all of ELIXIR's Training Coordinators, will meet to share updates and work on open training related aspects and ELIXIR Training Platform tasks as part of the 2022-2023 programme.

There is a limit of 25 in-person participants but none for virtual attendees. If the in-person component can't go ahead, the meeting will be fully virtual. Please contact Katharina Heil for any questions.

Read the programme and register (login required)

Updates from Communities

Emerging Systems Biology Community workshop

Tuesday February 8 | 14:00 - 17:00 CET

Last call! White paper writing workshop - register here

ELIXIRs Microbial Biotechnology Community meeting

Thursday February 10 | 14:00 - 17:00 CET

Last call! Microbial Biotechnology Community meeting, register here

Updates from Focus Groups

Open call for ELIXIR RDA steering committee

Nomination deadline - 15 February
The ELIXIR Research Data Alliance Focus Group invite ELIXIR stakeholders to nominate members for the steering committee.

E-mail Si rarat Sarntivijai with your nomination and a short-bio. A two-week open anonymous consultation will follow.

The ELIXIR RDA Focus Group is open to ALL ELIXIR members to participate.

Join the next RDA Focus Group meeting

Doodle poll deadline - 22 February
The RDA Focus Group will meet in March 2022 to confirm the Steering Committee and discuss the next steps.

Fill out the doodle poll to record your availability for the meeting.

Updates from other initiatives

Call for members of two new International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC) task forces

Disregarded Rare Diseases Task Force Deadline: February 11th
Find out more
Drug Repurposing Guidebook Task Force Deadline: February 25th
Find out more

EJP RD and C-PATH collaboration

The European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) has formed a collaboration with the Critical Path Institute (C-Path) to further global rare disease research and drug development.
Find out more

Upcoming ELIXIR events & webinars

ELIXIR Training Courses & Webinars

The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes. For more, visit TeSS portal

Getting started with impact evaluation

10 March | 09:00-11.30 CET

3D Bioinfo Community Webinar: Protein Engineering
15 February | 14:00 CET

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

Emerging Systems Biology Community: white paper writing workshop

8 February | 14:00 - 17:00 CET

Microbial Biotechnology Community meeting

10 February | 14:00 - 17:00 CET

Training platform meeting

16-18 March 2022 | Hybrid - Brussels, Belgium

ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2022

7-10 June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Job vacancies

All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website (also including those from industry). If you need our help communicating your new open positions, you can submit a job advertisement and it will automatically appear on our newsletters. Go to our vacancy page to submit a job

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