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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 set up specific COVID-19 services and responded to travel limitations with a strong shift towards remote ...
Save the date ► the ERIC Forum meeting will be held on 26-27 January 2021
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 new ESFRI Stakeholder Forum, the ERIC guidelines, opportunities for ERICs at the EIC (European Innovation ...
Register now ► 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 bring together Research Infrastructures’ community, policy makers and funders to exchange best practices and explore ...
Workshop on Impact Assessment, Evaluation and Monitoring of Research Infrastructures: The presentations are now available
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 report Monitoring of Research Infrastructures Performance by ESFRI in 2019, and a focus on impact ...
How science has been feeding into policy-making in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic?
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. _ The pandemic has catapulted science to the forefront of policy-making Interview with Peter Piot, Director of the London School of ...
IV RICH Symposium: ‘Research Infrastructures as engines for maximising impact of Horizon Europe’
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 research resources – with particular attention to digital research resources- in order to ensure the maximum ...
EFIS’ Interactive Toolkit on Socio-Economic Impact Assessment of Research Infrastructures
Article from the EFIS website, published on 19 October 2020: – 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 numerous studies covering this focus area both for individual infrastructures as well as at strategic ...
ERIC Forum’s new Chair and Vice Chair elections: A call for ERICs
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 of Procedures (RoP). The draft amendment of the RoP was distributed through the ERIC Forum ...
The ERIC Forum is pleased to announce the release of its first policy brief
– 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 to services and to support multinational research. The recommendations put forth in this policy brief reflect the ...
ERIC Forum Position Papers – Overview
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 the future of the ERA. (Read the paper here. Download it here). October 2019 ► ERIC Forum’s response to the ...
European Research Infrastructure Consortia and COVID-19 Research
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 on environment, the ERICs support researchers to find solutions to the current crisis. Many of ...
EU missions – Call for ideas
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 healthy soils for food, people and the planet? Want to help conquer cancer? Now you can ...
1st ERIC Forum Policy Seminar
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 opportunity for EU and national policy makers to open a dialogue with the ERIC community regarding ...
Press release: Jens Habermann appointed Director General of BBMRI-ERIC
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 cancer research and human genetics will take office in Graz on September 1st, 2020. He ...
Input of the ERIC Forum to the Open Consultation for the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
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 Open Science Cloud. To contribute to the success of EOSC, ERIC Forum members commit to ...
ERIC Forum’s response to the public consultation on the future of the ERA (communication)
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 consultation aims at strengthening the ERA communication to: • make it future-proof, • make it better ...
Euro-BioImaging ERIC is now recruiting its Directorate
– Euro-BioImaging ERIC is now seeking to recruit the Directorate; Expressions of interest are therefore invited for the following roles: Director General, employed by and positioned at the Euro-BioImaging ERIC Statutory seat, Turku, Finland. Med-Hub Section Director, employed by CNR and positioned in Turin, Italy. Bio-Hub Section Director, employed by and positioned at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany. ...
ERIC Forum’s New Corporate Brochure
– 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 of the ERIC Forum, such as policy makers, European Research Infrastructures, Research communities in academia and ...
ARIE position paper on Horizon Europe Mission
– 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 programme was presented today. ► Download here the position paper to which European Spallation Source ...
EPOS-ERIC is hiring its Executive Director
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 description here >> http://epos-eu.org/career ► Download the vacancy notice here. ...
Do you want to improve the way RIs and industry interact? Participate in the ENRIITC surveys
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, with the purpose to map the key elements to enact the envisaged collaborative framework between the ESFRI RIs and industry players ...
The ERIC community and Horizon Europe Mission Areas
– 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 subsequently founded in 2011, in the Netherlands. The ERIC community has been expanding ever since. ...
The Extreme Light Infrastructure passes key milestone to become an ERIC
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 Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC (ELI ERIC). The United Kingdom has confirmed to join as ...
“European Research Infrastructures for a smarter future” Conference
The “European Research Infrastructures for a smarter future” Conference will be held on May 15th 2020, and will be fully digital. The event is open to all participants , and is hosted by the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the EU, as part of the Future of Research Infrastructures in European Research Area event. ...
RI-PATHS Webinars: A European framework for socio-economic impact of research infrastructures: A way forward”.
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 way forward”. 22 June (10:00-13:00) – Panel discussion with RIs: “Advances in the field of socio-economic impact ...
Webinar – Supporting European Research: Communicating the Value of Life Science RIs in Times of Crisis and Beyond
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 a qualified interaction related to the top challenges, opportunities and priorities of Life Science Research Infrastructures ...
ERF’s Review of Working Practices of Analytical facilities During the Pandemic
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 researchers (users), primarily for COVID-19 related research. Yet, the crisis is likely to last months ...
Overview of ERICs’ surveys on Administrative and operational issues
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 regarding their topics of interest, current challenges, and collect current practices to solve these challenges. ...
Communication Toolkit for European Research Infrastructures is now Online
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 of research infrastructures, by aligning key-messages and improving how different stakeholders perceive them. Led by Centro ...
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 Infrastructures in Europe as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The page aims to facilitate research related to Coronavirus ...
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 challenge will be to support those who are finding a cure for COVID-19. The document ...
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 the COVID-19, without the necessity to undergo the regular evaluation procedure, and be scheduled within ...
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 application procedure and view Instruct’s technology catalogue here. ...
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 to EOSC. The need to leverage domain expertise and better drive the innovation which research communities require can be found in these position ...
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 Commission (DG RTD), Ministries of Science, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), Research councils and more. The ...
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, the Association of European-Level Research Infrastructures Facilities. The workshop continues a series of successful meetings dedicated to the User ...
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 is John Womersley (Director General, European Spallation Source ERIC), and he will work together with the ...
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 ERIC Forum project partners to discuss, among other topics, the ERIC Forum governance model, ERICs’ ...
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 Common Service IT. Application deadline: January 31, 2020 Read more here about the job description, requirements and application ...
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 the standardised ICOS measurement networks to the Spanish mainland, the Canary Islands and to the ...
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 organisation as members and observers, BBMRI-ERIC is today one of the largest infrastructures for health in the EU ...
Euro-BioImaging is officially an ERIC
Press Release from EMBL — 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 range of technologies and resources in biological and biomedical imaging – as a European Research ...
ERIC Forum’s response to the ERAC working group on ERA priorities and goals
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 CONTEXT: The ERIC Forum responds herewith to the request, by the ERAC WG, to address four questions on future ERA Objectives and ERA Priorities as a follow up of the ...
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 currently functions on basis of a common Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and the goal is to ...
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 the EC about the emerging best practices and find the best approach to solve the pending issues ...
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 premises in Paris and focused on the development of a communication toolkit for Research Infrastructures. This ...
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 showcase the impact of research infrastructures and their value for society. The meeting brought together representatives ...
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 approach for monitoring of Research Infrastructures’ performance. To this end, ESFRI established a working group, which ...
DARIAH Newsletter September 2019
DARIAH’s September newsletter is out > Read it here. ...
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 Commission upon request by a Member State and at least two other countries that are ...
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 the participants. Click here to watch the past webinars. ...
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. He’ll guide you through, step-by-step, how to utilize this service in order to find samples and datasets ...
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 present the goals of the forum and discuss various topics ranging from the role of the ERIC ...
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. ICOS stations observe greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere as well as carbon fluxes between ...
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 ministers, commissioners, members of European Parliament, researchers, as well as surprise guests each day. The ...
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 multi-technique proposals. More information cane be found here. ...
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 Circulation in the EU”, the Council of the European Union: “INVITES Member States and the ...
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 as objective, among others, to develop policies and methodologies for advanced operational aspects of ERICs through a set of ...
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. Brief presentations will be followed by an interactive panel discussion responding to questions from the ...
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 samples and datasets quickly and efficiently. 100 million samples are waiting – learn how to ...
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 volumes of data, collected across multiple disciplines. Many different standards, approaches, and tools have been developed ...
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 2020 programme (Grant Agreement No 823798). The project will run until December 2022. About the ...
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 workshops on socio-economic impact assessment. Different from the first round of workshops where the emphasis was ...
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 2020programme (grant agreement N. 823798). The project will run until December 2022. About the ERIC ...
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 in Oslo. The first day of the meeting will include presentations and updates from some of the project’ stakeholders. ...
