Two new Communities have been formed in ELIXIR, representing the fields of systems biology and single-cell omics. Both fields of research are rapidly developing and have great potential to help with challenges in health, climate change and food security.
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Workshop applications for the AHM need to be submitted by 23 January 2023 (Monday). Submissions should be made through Oxford Abstracts and should be of interest to more than one ELIXIR group.
More details and the link for submissions
Kelly Tunstall joined ELIXIR last week as Commission Services Portfolio Manager in the Project Managment Team.
Minutes of the Heads of Nodes TC
The minutes from the Heads of Nodes Teleconference from 8 December are now available in the shared folder on Google Drive.
We invite you to submit comments to Joana Wingender (joana.wingender [at] elixir-europe.org). The minutes will be considered agreed upon on Friday, 6 January.
Final Reminder! HoN Written Procedure
Following the discussion at the Heads of Nodes TC on 8 December, we hereby share with Heads of Nodes the following two documents for agreement by Written Procedure:
- ELIXIRHON/2022/25 - Ambitions and outcomes & Part A version3 of the 2024-28 ELIXIR Programme
This is the final Weekly Brief newsletter of 2022. The ELIXIR Hub will be closed for the week 26-30 December 2022. Thank you all for making 2022 such an excellent year for ELIXIR. We hope you have a wonderful, restful, and healthy Christmas break.
The Weekly Brief will resume on 9 January 2023, please continue to send updates for inclusion in the newsletter to info [at] elixir-europe.org
HoN Written Procedure
Following the discussion at the Heads of Nodes TC on 8 December, we hereby share with Heads of Nodes the following two documents for agreement by Written Procedure:
- ELIXIRHON/2022/25 - Ambitions and outcomes & Part A version3 of the 2024-28 ELIXIR Programme
Niklas Blomberg, Director of ELIXIR since its formation in 2013, announced that he will be stepping down from the role at the end of 2023, coinciding with the completion of the 2019-23 Scientific Programme. The ELIXIR Board has initiated the search for a new ELIXIR Director and appointed a search committee with recruitment opening shortly.
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Extension of deadline - Request for nominations for open ExCo position
Heads of Nodes (HoNs) were informed via e-mail on 6 April that due to limited gender balance in the nominations received for the one open ExCo position in the Compute Platform, we have extended the deadline for nominations until Monday, 1 May.
ELEAD aims to increase the number of women in ELIXIRs upper management and to support them to develop leadership skills in line with the values of the ELIXIR community. The ELEAD pilot consists of a mentoring scheme, professional training and guidance in key leadership skills. It builds on ELIXIR Spain experience of the Bioinfo4Women programme (B4W).