Weekly Brief, 9 March 2020

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IMPORTANT UPDATE
Innovation and SME Forum in the Agritech Sector POSTPONED!
To avoid the risk of attendees being exposed to or infected with Coronavirus (COVID-19), quarantined or restricted in their travel, we have made the decision to postpone the event.

REVERSE TUTORIAL - BRING YOUR IDEAS!
Lesson Development Sprint: Common Workflow Language Tutorial
26 March 2020 | Heidelberg, Germany

CWL is working with EMBL to develop training materials for CWL workflows. This is NOT a training session for end-users, but a course-building session.

If you would like to provide additional input to the course developers, please contact Sirarat.sarntivijai@elixir-europe.org

CLARIFICATION UK PARTICIPATION IN HORIZON 2020
The EC has issued guidance on UK participation in H2020. We dont expect any restrictions to apply to Horizon 2020 calls for proposals in the areas of interest to ELIXIR "General notice for UK applicants: In conformity with the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement, the UK and persons or entities established in the UK continue to be eligible to receive Union funds under actions carried out in direct, indirect or shared management, which implement Union programmes and activities committed under the MFF 2014-2020 until the closure of those Union programmes and activities. Restrictions may, however, apply for security-related reasons or concerning financial instruments. When such restrictions apply, these will be clearly specified in the call for proposals." 

ELIXIR Webinar Scaling-up omics observation - global partnerships to mainstream and sustain molecular biodiversity assessment this week! Pier Luigi Buttigieg from Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Germany) will talk about global partnerships to mainstream and sustain molecular biodiversity assessment. Wednesday 11 March, 15.00 CET 09:37. The link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7175524336596679180

Tip of the Week

Did you know you can visualise and subscribe to many ELIXIR calendars and events here?

Updates from Nodes

Recommended read: BBMRI Newsletter March 2020

Updates from Platforms

Webinar Series on Communication and Event Organisation
12, 19, 27 March 2020 | Online, Remote

Discussing event management, course design and delivery, and effective scientific communication.

Webinar on Data-Integration Platform for Cancer Research
26 March 2020 | Online, Remote

cBioPortal demo. Aimed at data managers, researchers, PhD students and postdocs involved in clinical, translational and biomedical research

Research Data Management Workshop
1 -2 April | Brussels, Belgium

A two-day hands-on workshop on how to manage and publish research data: write data management plans, tidy data, data cleaning, GitHub and Zenodo.

Introduction to openBIS Course
6 May 2020 | Lausanne, Switzerland

OpenBIS helps scientists meet requirements from funding agencies, journals, and academic institutions to publish FAIR data. This 1-day course provides a general overview, followed by a practical training session for wet-lab scientists.
Deadline: 22 April 2020

5th Empowering Biodiversity Research Conference
14 - 15 May 2020 | Africa Museum, Brussels, Belgium

Highlighting the newest developments in the world of biodiversity data standards and tools.

RaukR 2020 Summer Course
7 -18 June 2020 | Gotland, Sweden

2 weeks of advanced topics in R programming in bioinformatics and computational biology.
Deadline: 3 April 2020

Job board

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Upcoming ELIXIR events

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

ELIXIR events

1st International Workshop on Assessing Impact and Merit in Science
25 August 2020 | Lyon, France

ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum
28 April 2020 | London, UK

19th ECCB | European Conference on Computational Biology
5 -9 September 2020 | Sitges, Barcelona, Spain

BioHackathon Europe 2020
9 - 13 November 2020 | Barcelona, Spain