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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. ...
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 ...
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
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 discussion on ...
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. ...
