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Collaboration with Armenia through Horizon Europe Twinning

We have been approached by the Armenian Institute of Bioinformatics who would like to partner with experts from ELIXIR Nodes in a Horizon Europe Twinning proposal (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02-01). In particular, they are looking for partners with experience in establishing national databanks or with the capacity to support the data stewardship training to build and successfully implement a genomics database. A summary of their idea is here:

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Assessing the performance and impact of research infrastructures An annotated bibliography

This document collates, in the form of an annotated bibliography, a wide range of published works that are relevant to assessing the performance and impact of research infrastructures. This is the first public-facing version of an otherwise internal document, never meant to be exhaustive, yet very likely to be useful to others outside of ELIXIR.

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Webinar: Increasing capacity in impact evaluation in a life science research infrastructure

3 October 2023 | 12:00-13:00 CEST | Online

This ELIXIR impact webinar will present the outcomes of the project "Impact evaluation at Node-level - getting it done", funded by ELIXIR-CONVERGE and ELIXIR.

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Outcomes of ELIXIR Heads of Nodes TC, 14 September

We would like to thank Heads of Nodes for joining us for the TC on 14 September.

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New ExCo of the Compute Platform

We are happy to announce that Jana Broncov will be joining us from the Czech Node as our newest ExCo of the Compute Platform. Jana will be replacing Ludk Matyska and will begin in her position on 1 January 2024. We would like to send a big welcome and look forward to working with her!

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All Hands 2023 meeting report published

Two versions of the All Hands 2023 meeting report have been published:

External version - with external links to posters and presentations which have been uploaded to F1000

Internal version - with internal links to all agendas, posters and presentations

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ELIXIR team visits Australia

Over the summer, a team of 14 ELIXIR experts visited Australia for a month to coincide with the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2023), hosted by the Australian BioCommons. The presence of ELIXIR experts brought a European perspective to the global meeting.

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ELIXIR training team builds closer bioinformatics links with Brazil

In June 2023, members of ELIXIR Portugal and ELIXIR Switzerland visited Curitiba, Brazil, to collaborate on training in data management and FAIR data with Brazilian research and innovation organisations.

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Core Data Resources Review meeting

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Contribute to ELIXIR 10 years anniversary social media campaign!

ELIXIR Hub is planning a social media campaign for ELIXIR 10 years anniversary. In October, we would like to have a series of posts dedicated to members from ELIXIR Nodes. Please fill in the following questions by 22 September (Friday), we will select up to 10 responses to post on social media as part of the campaign.

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