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Watch now ► Webinar on Procurement Rules, VAT Exemption Practices and Economic Activities

 

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

New ERA conference summary report and recommendations

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 ...

Survey: Assessment of ERICs’ Socio-economic Impact

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 ...

EGERIC Report: Assessment on the implementation of the ERIC Regulation

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 ...

Read now ► ERIC Forum report on Quality Management and Reproducibility in Academic Research

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. ...

How ERICs Contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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 ...

Save the date and Register now ► ERIC Forum at the new ERA Conference session on ‘ERA for Research Infrastructures’

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

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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BBMRI, EATRIS and ECRIN will launch EU-AMRI, the European Alliance of Medical Research Infrastructures

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 ...

How BBMRI-ERIC supports the biobanking community during the pandemic?

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 ...

Overview: ERIC Forum at the Stakeholders’ Workshop on ERICs

 

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 ...

ECRIN supports paediatric clinical research and personalised medicine

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 ...

ERIC Forum at the Science Summit (UNGA76): Science Capacity Building | 29 Sept


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.

 

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Presentations available► Stakeholders’ Workshop on European Research Infrastructures Consortia (ERICs)

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. ...

CERIC users presented the first evidence of microplastics in the Antarctic terrestrial food web.

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 ...

Instruct Centre NeCEN collaborates with Janssen Vaccines & Prevention B.V in the development of a new SARS-CoV-2 vaccine 

Figure: Cryo-EM structure of the most abundant trimer class of S-closed-Fd-a closed S protein trimer on the left (PDB accession code: 7A4N) and the less representative open trimer class on the right (PDB accession code: 7AD1). Colored by local resolution

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5,429 academic publications based on European Social Survey data


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 – ...

Discover LifeWatch ERIC EcoPortal, the repository of semantic resources for the ecological domain

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

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. ...

How the COVID-19 pandemic changed Research Infrastructures: An interview of Jan Hrušák, ESFRI Chair

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 ...

Overview ► Planning for Sustainability of Research Infrastructures

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 ...

Watch now ►ERIC Forum Webinar: Guidance on Accounting Principles for ERICs

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 ...

Register now ► Planning for Sustainability of Research Infrastructures

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, ...

Workshop “Common Challenges and Actions for Distributed Research Infrastructures in Europe”

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. ...

RI-VIS publishes three white papers on international cooperation between Research Infrastructures

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 ...

ERIC Forum builds on achievements during 2020 and
 re-confirms Womersley and Ussi as Chairs

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 ...

ERIC Forum Cross-Domain Workshop on Research Quality and Reproducibility

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 ...

Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Working Practices of Analytical Facilities II

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 ...

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