Save the date for the upcoming General Assembly and final meeting of the ERIC Forum Implementation Project, which will be held in Brussels on 11-12 October 2022. The draft agenda will be shared soon within July. 

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The ERIC Forum WP5 (Communication and Dissemination) is organising a panel discussion in the frame of ESOF2022 around Research Infrastructures’ contribution to environmental sustainability. The event will be held online (hosted on the ESOF conference virtual platform) on ...

What is an ERIC?

ERIC – The European Research Infrastructure Consortium is a legal framework introduced in 2009 to support the establishment and operation of large-scale research infrastructures of pan-European interest. The ERIC community has been expanding in the last ...

Work Package 3 of the ERIC Forum project (Operations, Administration, HR and Finance of ERICs) organised a 1-hour webinar on May 18^th 2022 to report on the deliverable “Best practices guidance document on contracting, insurance and intellectual ...

The ERIC Forum Work Package 3 (Operations, Administration, HR and Finance of ERICs) is organising a webinar on the RESAVER Pension Fund in collaboration with the European Commission. The event will be held online on 10th June 2022 from ...

Introduction

The ERIC Forum was formed in 2017 and brings together the ERIC community with the aim of strengthening its coordination, advancing ERICs’ operations, collectively responding to common challenges, and effectively interacting with the European Commission and key stakeholders. The ...

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18 May, 11:30 CEST

WP3 of the ERIC Forum project (Operations, Administration, HR and Finance of ERICs) will organise a 1-hour webinar on May 18^th 2022 at 11:30 CEST to report on the deliverable “Best ...

The Second ERIC Forum Policy Seminar on the Socio-Economic Impact (SEI) of ERICs took place virtually on April 29^th 2022. It brought together more than 90 participants from Research Infrastructures and ERICs, with their national, regional and European ...

The ERIC Forum Working Group (WG) on Gender Equality Plan (GEP) and the EU-LIFE Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Working Group are organising a joint seminar on 12th May from 14:30 to 16:00 CEST.

The session is open to ...

The ERIC Forum has launched a webpage grouping ERICs’ collaborations with Ukrainian Institutions and Scientists. It also provides an overview on the current opportunities aiming to support researchers of Ukraine.

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The Executive Board of the Forum of European Research Infrastructures Consortia (ERIC Forum ExBo) condemns the aggression of Russia on Ukraine. The war will have a global impact, with very tragic consequences of the Ukrainian population. We ...

After ten years of development, AnaEE (Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems) is officially created as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). AnaEE entered in the ESFRI Roadmap in 2010, as an RI contributing to both Health & Food and Environment ...

WP3 of the ERIC Forum project (Operations, Administration, HR and Finance of ERICs) organised a 1-hour webinar on 18^th February to report on the deliverable “Best practices guidelines in employment and secondment for ERICs”. The event ...

The first ERIC Forum Meeting 2022 took place virtually on 26-27 January. It brought together more than 145 participants from the Forum’s key stakeholders, including the European Commission, ministries of research, ESFRI, Research Infrastructures (RIs) and ERIC communities, and more.  ...

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The ERIC Forum is pleased to announce the release of its second policy brief.

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This policy brief, entitled ” Scaling-Up Research Projects Through ERICs: Impact of Big Science on The Research Ecosystem” showcases the pivotal role ...

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EGERIC, the Commission expert group to assess the implementation of the ERIC Regulation and identify best practices and potential recommendations, presented its Report and Recommendations to the ERIC Forum community on 17 January 2022. The online session ...

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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. ...

The ERIC Forum took part in the Science Summit around the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA76) on 14 September 2021, to raise awareness about Research Infrastructures’ role and contribution to the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals ...

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 ...

16-17 December 2020, Online

Recently, impact assessment and/or monitoring have been highlighted as an important element of long-term sustainability of research infrastructures by ESFRI, European Commission, Competitiveness Council as well as OECD. This has resulted in an adoption of a ...

Read the interview with Peter Piot, special advisor to the President of the European Commission on the response to the coronavirus and COVID-19, on how science has been feeding into policy-making.

The full article is available here. 

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IV RICH Symposium entitled ‘Research Infrastructures as engines for maximising impact of Horizon Europe’ will take place virtually on 12-13 November 2020.  This Symposium aims to provide a comprehensive view of possibilities that the European RIs offer in terms of ...

Article from the EFIS website, published on 19 October 2020:

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Over the last decade, the EFIS Centre team has built up an in-depth experience on the topic of socio-economic impact assessment of research infrastructures. Our staff have participated ...

In view of the upcoming ERIC Forum Chair and Vice-Chair elections, ERICs are kindly invited to share their views and have their say with regards to the new election rules, as part of the general revision process of the Rules ...

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The ERIC Forum is pleased to announce the release of its first policy brief.

This brief, entitled “Funding models for access to ERIC multinational / transnational services” focuses on the funding instruments that allow ERICs to provide access ...

• May 2019 ► ERIC Forum Position paper on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Research Infrastructures. (Read the paper here. Download it here).

• August 2019 ► ERIC Forum’s written contribution to ERAC ad-hoc working group on

Have you say on EU missions for adapting to climate change, conquering cancer, greener cities and healthy oceans and soils.

How would you tackle adaptation to climate change? Got an idea to make cities greener? Care about healthy oceans, and ...

14 – 15 September 2020, Online

The first ERIC Forum Policy Seminar will be held online on 14 – 15 September. The seminar will focus on funding models for access to ERIC multinational/transnational services. It will provide a unique ...

1st September 2020

The Assembly of Members of the Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC) appointed Professor Jens K. Habermann as new Director General. The distinguished scientist, clinician and recognized expert in biobanking, translational ...

 August 2020 

The ERIC Forum supports the worldwide movement towards open science and looks forward to working closely with EOSC and other research infrastructures to make data (and computational services which generate or validate this data) available through the European ...

03th August 2020. The ERIC Forum submitted its response to the online public consultation launched by the European Commission on the roadmap towards the communication on the future of Research & Innovation and the ERA (European Research Area).

This ...

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The ERIC Forum is pleased to announce the release of its new corporate brochure.
The brochure aims to introduce the general public to the ERIC community, its activities and scope. It is also targeted towards various other stakeholders ...

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ARIE position paper on Horizon Europe Mission

The ARIE (Analytical Research Infrastructures in Europe) Joint Position Paper highlighting how a common, complementary approach by Europe’s analytical RIs will help address the societal challenges of the Horizon Europe Missions framework ...

EPOS-ERIC is hiring its Executive Director to lead EPOS Research Infrastructure aimed at ensuring sustainable use and re-use of multidisciplinary solid Earth science data & products, fostering research and innovation.
Application deadline: 20 September.
Read more about the job ...

ENRIITC (a Horizon 2020 project supporting the establishment of strategic, cross-border partnerships between Industry and Research Infrastructures) is conducting two surveys in the form of questionnaires, addressing Industry Liaison and Contact Officers, located respectively at governmental agencies and research infrastructures, ...

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ERICs as facilitators of excellent science benefiting society 

The legal framework for a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) was introduced in 2009 to facilitate the establishment and operation of large-scale research infrastructures of European interest. The first ERIC was ...

The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) is a step closer to officially becoming an international organisation. The Czech Republic and Hungary, together with Italy and Lithuania, have formally applied to the European Commission to establish the new, pan-European organisation known as ...

The RI-PATHS project team is pleased to invite research infrastructures, funding agencies, policy makers, impact analysts and other potential user communities to three dedicated online webinars tackling the theme “A European framework for socio-economic impact of research infrastructures: A ...

CORBEL presents its final webinar, this time with guest speaker Bogi Eliasen from the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS). Prior to the webinar, CIFS will run a Delphi study with the participation of CORBEL partners for two weeks, facilitating ...

The on-going COVID-19 pandemic has strongly impacted the operations of research infrastructures. To protect their staff, several analytical facilities are closed for operations or strongly limiting their activities while maximizing protection measures, while some others provide limited access to external ...

Between November 2019 and January 2020, the ERIC Forum conducted 4 surveys to collect feedback from ERICs on issues spanning financial reporting, budgeting, procurement, HR, insurance and more.

The aim of the surveys was to gather and analyse ERICs’ input ...

The Communication Toolkit for European Research Infrastructures provides an easy and useful set of tools, guidelines and resources to improve the communication strategy and activities of research infrastructures. Its common use is expected to increase the individual and collective visibility ...

The Association of European-Level Research Infrastructures Facilities (ERF-AISBL), in collaboration with CERIC-ERIC, has set up a page which presents the various services, such as rapid access to instruments, data and other resources, offered by the Research ...

RESOURCES FROM BIOBANKS ACROSS EUROPE AVAILABLE FOR RESEARCH ON COVID-19

COVID-19 represents a great challenge for our healthcare systems. The situation and the working conditions are difficult in many places and direct patient care has the highest priority.

The next ...

In order to facilitate the research on the COVID-19, CERIC has set up a dedicated Fast Track Access to a selected number of instruments.

The dedicated Fast Track Access will allow to access the selected instruments for research related to ...

INSTRUCT-ERIC is offering priority access to groups that need to use its structural biology services for projects directly related to COVID-19 viral proteins. Priority access will ensure a faster review of research proposals relating to COVID-19. 

Read more about the ...

Source: EOSCsecretariat.eu

Through its cluster projects, ESCAPE, ENVRI-FAIR, SSHOC, PaNOSC and EOSC-Life, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) steers the integration and consolidation of thematic e-infrastructure platforms in preparation for connecting them ...

05-06 February 2020, Brussels

The first ERIC Forum meeting of 2020 was held in Brussels on 5^thand 6^thFebruary 2020. It brought together more than 23 different ERIC and ERIC-to-be, as well as representatives from the European ...

29-30 April 2020, Dolní Břežany – Czech Republic

The Extreme-Light-Infrastructure (ELI) is organizing the 4^th European User Office Meeting (EUOM) that will be held at ELI Beamlines in Dolní Břežany in the Czech Republic with the support of ERF ...

The ERIC Forum, which brings together 21 leading European Research Infrastructures, has a new leadership.The aim of the ERIC Forum is to advance operations of ERICs and to strategically contribute to the development of ERIC-related policies.

The new Chair ...

05-06 February 2020  |  Renaissance Hotel, Brussels – Belgium

The upcoming ERIC Forum meeting will take place on 05 – 06 February 2020 at the Renaissance Hotel in Brussels, Belgium.

The meeting will bring together representatives from ERICs and the ...

ICOS announced that the Kingdom of Spain plans to join the ICOS research infrastructure during 2020.

Spain estimates it will bring in eight greenhouse gas measurement stations: two Ocean stations, two Ecosystem and four Atmosphere stations. These stations will extend ...

VACANCY NOTICE

Post of the Director General of BBMRI-ERIC.

The pan-European Biobanking and BioMolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI) is a distributed biomedical infrastructure, which operates under the European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) legal framework. With 19 countries and one intergovernmental ...

Press Release from EMBL

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October 2019

Note by the ERIC Forum on the input paper for the second hearing on the subject of the ERA OBJECTIVES and ERA PRIORITIES

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The ERIC Forum responds herewith to the request, by the ERAC WG, to address ...

16 October 2019, Amsterdam – The Netherlands

The Directors and representatives of the ERIC Forum members gathered in Amsterdam on 16th October to discuss and design common rules for the new governance model of the ERIC Forum.

The Forum ...

05 December 2019 – Munich, Germany

CERIC is organising a workshop focused on in-kind contributions within Research Infrastructures, in particular in ERICs. The aim of the event is to increase the awareness among the existing and future ERICs and with ...

01-02 October 2019, EMBRC-ERIC headquarters (Paris, France)

Communication experts from the ERIC Forum project and other European Research Infrastructures (RIs) took part in the RI-VIS Communication Workshop on 01-02 October 2019.

The event was hosted by EMBRC-ERIC at its ...

02 October 2019 – Berlin, Germany

WP4 partners of the ERIC Forum project met in Berlin on 2nd October 2019 to discuss the progress of the WP, its future steps and to explore potential collaboration opportunities with RI PATHS to ...

DARIAH’s September newsletter is out > Read it here.

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August 2019 

Introduction 

What is the ERIC Forum? 

The ERIC Forum brings together all European Research Infrastructure Consortia (ERICs). 

ERICs are legal entities based on the COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 723/2009 of 25 June. They are set-up by the European ...

In the framework of the horizon2020 project ACCELERATE, a series of webinars are taking place each month in which one of the key aspects related to Innovation, Industrial Liaison and Technology Transfer is presented by experts and discussed with ...

BBMRI-ERIC’s Directory gives access to over 600 biobanks and 100,000,000 samples across Europe. How can you use its tool to find samples quickly and effectively? That’s what Erik Steinfelder, Director of BBMRI-ERIC, will explain on Monday 30 September, 15:00 CEST.  ...

06 September 2019 – Brussels, Belgium

On 6th September, a delegation of the ERIC Forum met with Mr. Adam Tyson, the Head of Unit of the Research Infrastructures unit at DG RTD (European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation) to ...

24 – 25 October | Gothenburg, Sweden

The Nordic ICOS Symposium is a bi-annual joint venture of the Nordic ICOS RI national networks ICOS Denmark, ICOS Finland, ICOS Norway and ICOS Sweden. In 2019, it will be hosted by Sweden. ...

CERIC-ERIC Call for Proposals is now open

CERIC-ERIC offers access through a single entry point to more than 50 different and complementary state of the art techniques and support laboratories, distributed in 9 countries, with the submission of single or ...

Panel discussion webinar, where data protection experts from across Europe will give their views on what changes the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) brought for research, data archiving and data sharing and how researchers and institutions have implemented the GDPR. ...

Join BBMRI-ERIC’s Director General, Erik Steinfelder, on Wednesday, June 26 at 14:00-15:00 CEST for a live webinar answering more in-depth questions on how to use the BBMRI-ERIC Directory. He’ll show you how to utilize this service in order to find ...

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL Data FAIRness in Environmental & Earth Science Infrastructures: theory and practice

Lecce, 01 – 05 July 2019

In recent years, one of the major challenges in the Environmental and Earth Science has been managing and searching larger ...

Call to take part in the second round of RI-PATHS workshops: As a follow-up to the scoping workshops held in November-December 2018, RI-PATHS project team kindly invites the RI community to express interest in joining the second round of participatory ...

Amsterdam, February 1st, 2019.

On Thursday 31 January, 23* European Research Infrastructures, based in 11 different countries with national nodes in all European Member States, met in Amsterdam to launch the ERIC Forum project, co-funded by the European Commission’s Horizon ...

07 – 08 May 2019, Research Council of Norway

On May 7^th, representatives of current and future ERICs will come together for the 4^thERIC Forum meeting, which will take place at the Research Council of Norway ...