European Research Infrastructures, many of them organised as ERICs, are essential resource to the researchers studying the many aspects of the pandemics. Addressing issues such as development of the vaccine and medicines, insights into the social challenges, and the impact ...
Questionnaire – Research Infrastructures and COVID-19 Research
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 ...
BBMRI-ERIC response to the Coronavirus Pandemic
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 ...
CERIC-ERIC offers free Fast Track Access to COVID-19 related research
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 offers priority access for COVID-19 related research proposals
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 ...
ESFRI cluster projects-Position papers on expectations and planned contributions to the EOSC
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 ...
ERIC Forum Meeting 2020, Brussels
05-06 February 2020, Brussels
The first ERIC Forum meeting of 2020 was held in Brussels on 5thand 6thFebruary 2020. It brought together more than 23 different ERIC and ERIC-to-be, as well as representatives from the European ...
European User Office Meeting 2020
29-30 April 2020, Dolní Břežany – Czech Republic
The Extreme-Light-Infrastructure (ELI) is organizing the 4th European User Office Meeting (EUOM) that will be held at ELI Beamlines in Dolní Břežany in the Czech Republic with the support of ERF ...
Press Release: The ERIC Forum announces new Chair and Vice Chair
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 ...
ERIC Forum Meeting 2020 | Registration and Program
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 ...
BBMRI-ERIC is hiring a Systems Administrator
Job title: Systems Administrator – full-time
Job location: The Central Executive Management Office of BBMRI-ERIC in Graz, Austria
Job Purpose: The Systems Administrator is responsible for supporting all office operations regarding IT and the infrastructure operations of
... Job location: The Central Executive Management Office of BBMRI-ERIC in Graz, Austria
Job Purpose: The Systems Administrator is responsible for supporting all office operations regarding IT and the infrastructure operations of
Spain to join ICOS in 2020
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 ...
BBMRI-ERIC is hiring its Director General
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 ...
Euro-BioImaging is officially an ERIC
Press Release from EMBL
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Euro-BioImaging established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium for state-of-the-art imaging services in biological and biomedical research
The European Commission has officially established Euro-BioImaging – which provides life scientists with open access to a broad
ERIC Forum’s response to the ERAC working group on ERA priorities and goals
Note by the ERIC Forum on the input paper for the second hearing on the subject of the ERA OBJECTIVES and ERA PRIORITIES
CONTEXT:
The ERIC Forum responds herewith to the request, by the ERAC WG, to address four questions ...
ERIC Forum Directors’ meeting about the Governance Model
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 ...
In-kind Contributions in the life of an ERIC
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 ...
ERIC Forum at the RI-VIS Communication Workshop
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 ...
ERIC Forum WP4 meeting on KPIs and Monitoring
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 ...
Towards Key Performance Indicators of Research Infrastructures
Authors: Jana Kolar, Marjan Cugmas, Anuška Ferligoj (Submitted on 1st October 2019)
In 2018, the European Strategic Forum for research infrastructures (ESFRI) was tasked by the Competitiveness Council, a configuration of the Council of the EU, to develop a common ...
ERIC Forum members’ written contribution to ERAC ad-hoc working group on the Future of the ERA
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 ...
ACCELERATE Webinars on Innovation
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 ...
Webinar IV: Using BBMRI-ERIC’s Directory
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. ...
ERIC Forum meeting with DG RTD
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 ...
2nd Nordic ICOS Symposium ”Sources and Sinks of Greenhouse Gases”
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. ...
European Research & Innovation Days
European Research & Innovation Days, Brussels, 24-26 September 2019
European Research and Innovation Days is the first annual policy event of the European Commission, bringing together stakeholders to debate and shape the future research and innovation landscape.
Speakers will include
CERIC-ERIC Call for Proposals now open!
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 ...
ERIC Forum Position Paper on the Development of KPIs for Research Infrastructures
ERIC Forum Position Paper on the Development of KPIs for Research Infrastructures
Research infrastructures (RI) represent public investments. As such, they need to be accountable to their funders by demonstrating expected performance and impact. In its conclusions on “Accelerating Knowledge ...
ERICs’ regulation and operational issues discussed at the 1st Italian ERIC Forum
In the framework of the Horizon2020 project ACCELERATE, CERIC-ERIC organized the first Italian ERIC Forum on 27 June 2019 at CERIC’s headquarters in Trieste.
The meeting was organized in line with Work Package 1 of the project, which has ...
CESSDA Webinar: The GDPR and research one year on: experiences across Europe
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. ...
BBMRI-ERIC DIRECTORY: WEBINAR II
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 ...
Data FAIRness in Environmental & Earth Science Infrastructures: theory and practice
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 ...
RI-PATHS Workshops
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 ...
ERIC Forum Implementation Project: Kick off meeting
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 ...
4th ERIC Forum Meeting – Oslo, Norway
07 – 08 May 2019, Research Council of Norway
On May 7th, representatives of current and future ERICs will come together for the 4thERIC Forum meeting, which will take place at the Research Council of Norway ...