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Work Package 3 of the ERIC Forum Project (Operations, Administration, HR and Finance of ERICs) organised a 1-hour webinar on December 16^th to report on the deliverable “Procurement rules, VAT exemption practices and economic activities ...

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The upcoming ERIC Forum meeting will be held online on 26-27 January 2022. It will bring together the ERIC community and key stakeholders to discuss, among other topics, ERICs’ sustainability and role in the European Research & Innovation panorama, ...

The new ERA conference was built around stakeholders’ involvement with the aim to identify and voice existing needs, and formulate realistic recommendations that would facilitate implementation of the renewed ERA policy objectives. The Conference’s goals were to improve understanding of ...

The Call for Proposals for the 2022 edition of the EuroScience Open Forum is now open. Until 30 November 2021, the ESOF2022 submission platform will be available to receive proposals for sessions and posters.

About ESOF 2022  ...

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Call to the ERIC community (established ERICs and ERICs-in-preparation):

Task 4.3 of the ERIC Forum implementation project (Socio-Economic Impact Assessment Practices) is mapping out how the assessing of socio-economic impact of established ERICs and those in the preparatory ...

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The Council Regulation on the Community legal framework for a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (the ‘ERIC Regulation’) adopted in 2009 and amended in 2013 aims to facilitate the establishment and the operation of large European Research Infrastructures. As of ...

The ERIC Forum report on Quality Management and Reproducibility in Academic Research provides an overview of the factors limiting reproducibility and the quality of academic research, and presents possible solutions and change in research practices that could lead to improvements. ...

Overview:

Research Infrastructures are considered one of the success stories of the European Research Area (ERA), and have transformed the way science is done as they facilitate access to large-scale facilities to perform excellent and ground-breaking research.

The ERIC community ...

27 October 2021, Online / Brdo Congress Center, Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia

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The ERIC Forum Chair will be taking part in the new ERA conference on 27 October 2021, at the breakout session 1 ”ERA for Research Infrastructures”.

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About EU-AMRI:

The European Alliance of Medical Research Infrastructures (EU-AMRI) is the result of the collaboration between three European research infrastructures, namely EATRIS-ERIC (focused on translational medicine), ECRIN-ERIC (focused on multinational clinical research) and BBMRI-ERIC (focused ...

When the pandemic hit Europe in spring 2020, BBMRI-ERIC, the European research infrastructure for biobanking and biomolecular resources, responded quickly. BBMRI understood the responsibility not only to its community of 21 member states but also to those working in ...

The Stakeholders’ workshop on ERICs was held on 13-14 September 2021, it was organized by the European Commission (DG RTD) and EGERIC (the Commission expert group to assess the implementation of the ERIC Regulation and identify best practices and ...

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ECRIN coordinated projects PedCRIN and PERMIT support researchers working in both paediatrics and personalised medicine through the development of tools, support of clinical research projects or the development of recommendations to ensure scientific excellence.

About PedCRIN (Paediatric Clinical ...

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Save the date for the ERIC Forum’s presentation at the Science Summit where ERICs’ contribution to the UN SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) will be presented. The session will be held on 29 September at 10:00 CEST.

About the ...

Stakeholders’ Workshop on European Research Infrastructures Consortia (ERICs)

13-14 September 2021, Online

Since the entry into force of the Regulation on European Research Infrastructures Consortia (ERICs) in 2009, the Commission granted the ERIC legal status to 22 research infrastructures. ...

The General Assembly of the DARIAH ERIC recently voted unanimously to accept Bosnia and Herzegovina’s application for full membership in the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities.

“It’s a real pleasure for me to welcome Bosnia and ...

Microplastics are plastic fragments below 1 millimeter in size, which can result from a variety of sources such as clothing, cosmetics, industrial processes and degradation of plastic items. They have been detected in air, water, and even in food. While ...

Preliminary analysis of Google Scholar indexing has established that almost 5,500 academic publications include substantial use of European Social Survey (ESS) data (2003-20).

Bibliographic monitoring of English-language publications only – undertaken annually by researchers at the University of Ljubljana – ...

In the last decade, ecological research groups and infrastructures have contributed to the production of core and domain ontologies, as well as controlled vocabularies to increase data discovery, integration and interoperability.

To make the discovery and use of all these ...

Using the EU-OPENSCREEN bioactives library: Identification of Inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 3CL-Pro Enzymatic Activity Using a Small Molecule in Vitro Repurposing Screen:

Compound repurposing is an important strategy for the identification of effective treatment options against SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 disease. ...

• BBMRI-ERIC Annual report 2020: here
• CERIC-ERIC Annual report 2020: here
• CESSDA-ERIC Annual report 2020: here
• CLARIN-ERIC Annual report 2020: here
• DARIAH-ERIC Annual report 2020: here
• EATRIS-ERIC Annual report 2020: here
• ECRIN-ERIC Annual report 2020: here
• ECCSEL-ERIC Annual report 2020: here

ESFRI release, 01.07.2021

ESFRI is pleased to announce the election of Jana Kolar as the Forum’s next chair. Jana’s Term of Office will commence in January 2022 with a two years duration. After an in-depth analysis of her application and ...

Jan Hrušák, Chair of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), was recently interviewed by Science Business, and dicussed the impact of the new circumstances imposed by the coronavirus pandemic on Research Infrastructures (RIs), among other pressing ...

Tells us about your Research Infrastructure’s needs for the ERIC Forum toolbox on best practices:

The ERIC Community (both established ERICs and ERICs-in-preparation) from different fields of expertise (finance, management, human resource, communication etc.) is invited to take part ...

Research Infrastructures are considered one of the success stories of the European Research Area (ERA), and have transformed the way science is done as they facilitate access to large-scale facilities to perform excellent and ground-breaking research. Moreover, Research Infrastructures support ...

The ERIC Forum has recently established a partnership with Gender Equality Academy (GE Academy) to offer an introductory training to ERICs on GEP, free of charge. GE Academy is a Horizon 2020 project developing and implementing a high-quality capacity-building programme ...

The establishment of the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) ERIC opens the door for researchers, industry and countries to gain access to the world’s largest collection of super powerful and ultra-fast lasers for science.

The European Commission has taken a long-anticipated ...

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The ERIC Forum WP3 (Operations, Administration, HR and Finance of ERICs) had organised a webinar on April 28th from 10:00 to 10:45 CET to provide guidance on accounting principles for ERICs. The webinar brought together the ERIC community (both ...

In the frame of the Horizon2020 projects ACCELERATE and the ERIC Forum Implementation Project, the event ”Planning for Sustainability of Research Infrastructures” will be held online on 25 May 2021.

The event will bring to the fore the policy views, ...

The ERIC Forum is pleased to announce the election of Francisco Colomer, Director of JIVE ERIC, as the new Chair of the ERIC Forum.  

The new Chair, with the support of members from the Executive Board, will be in charge ...

As of March 12 2021, Italy has become a member of the JIVE ERIC, joining the Netherlands (represented by NWO), the UK (STFC), Sweden (VR), France (CNRS), Spain (IGN) and Latvia (MES). JIVE is also supported by institutes in South ...

EATRIS has recently joined the EU Health Coalition as its 41st partner. EATRIS shares a common vision with the EU Health Coalition: to accelerate the translation of scientific discoveries into the best benefits for patients; the need for multi-stakeholder engagement ...

The European landscape of research infrastructures has evolved significantly over the past decades, namely by witnessing an increasing number of institutions, facilities and laboratories that have organized and consolidated their operations and services offered to the research community across countries. ...

The RI-VIS project has just published three white papers that provide recommendations on how to increase collaboration between European research infrastructures and counterparts from Africa, Latin America and Australia. The papers are targeted at funders, policy makers and research infrastructure ...

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first ERIC Forum Meeting 2021 took place virtually on 26-27 January. It brought together more than 170 participants from the ERIC community, ESFRI, the European Commission (DG RTD), the European Innovation Council, and ...

PRESS RELEASE (Download here the press release)
26.01.2021

BRUSSELS, 26TH JANUARY 2021
The leadership group that led the ERIC Forum through 2020 has been reconfirmed, following the results of the ERIC Forum internal election process, published on the ...

As part of the ERIC Forum Implementation Project, the European Research Infrastructure for Translational Medicine (EATRIS) is organising a cross-domain workshop on February 10-11 2021 on the subject of quality and reproducibility in the research process. The workshop aims to ...

COVID-19 has a substantial impact on the operations of analytical facilities that serve external users.At the end of April 2020, only a third of the surveyed research infrastructures (RIs) reported that they maintained such user access activities; however, several had ...

The upcoming ERIC Forum meeting will be held online on 26-27 January 2021. It will bring together the ERIC community and its stakeholders to discuss, among other topics, ERIC’s role in the new ERA (European Research Area), ERICs and the ...