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ELIXIR-CONVERGE June 29 FAIR hackathon to create lesson plans

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Please register & help us find experts by sharing the invite. We would love to have Dutch Life Sciences & Health data stewards (and alike) on board. Help us create lesson plans for life sciences research organisations to advance their data stewards’ and researchers’ FAIR skills. Audience: Everyone willing to work on joint lesson plans on how to implement FAIR… Continue reading →

Hackathon to integrate the ELIXIR Data Stewardship Wizard with other ELIXIR resources

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On December 4-6, 2018 the ELIXIR Data Stewardship Wizard team (ELIXIR-CZ, ELIXIR-NL) welcomed the FAIRsharing, TeSS (both ELIXIR-UK) and ELIXIR-SI eLearning Platform – EeLP (ELIXIR-SI) teams to the beautiful city of Prague during the “Mikuláš” (Dutch “Sinterklaas”) celebrations, to take part in a hackathon to share information and work towards interoperability and integration between ELIXIR resources. An external services integration framework… Continue reading →

Dutch Ministry of Health sees perspectives for FAIR and Personal Health Train to employ data to serve health

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In close consultation with the health care and research field, Dutch Minister of Medical Care and Sports Bruno Bruins has developed a vision how data can be employed to serve health. November 15th, he has shared his vision with the Dutch Parliament.  <Klik hier voor Nederlandstalige versie> In his letter to the Parliament Bruins writes: “Employing data for health needs… Continue reading →

9 February: ELIXIR Belgium launch

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The ELIXIR Belgium Launch on 9 February 2017 will demonstrate the role of the Belgian ELIXIR node and will showcase the potential of an infrastructure like ELIXIR. In addition, experts in data handling will introduce the FAIR data principles and illustrate data management on the basis of use cases. Speakers include Niklas Blomberg (Director of ELIXIR Europe), Frederik Coppens (ELIXIR Belgium), Richard Finkers… Continue reading →

ELIXIR priority project on ESFRI roadmap

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On May 26, the Council of the European Union adopted the outcome of the ESFRI prioritisation and identified ELIXIR as one of the the three projects ready for immediate action and of strategic importance for Europe. The other ones are the European Spallation Source (ESS) and the Earth Plate Observing System (EPOS). Niklas Blomberg, ELIXIR director, is overjoyed by the outcome, “This is of course of immense value to ELIXIR,… Continue reading →

DTL and ELIXIR endorse Data Citation Principles

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DTL and ELIXIR both actively support the Data Citation Principles created by Force11. Force11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. Their aim is to bring about a change in modern scholarly communications through the effective use of information technology. DTL… Continue reading →

ELIXIR-NL newsflash May 2014

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After formal approval of the Dutch node in ELIXIR (ELIXIR-NL) at the board meeting in Helsinki (7-8 april 2014) a joint meeting of the Heads of Nodes (HoN) and the technical coordinators (TC) of the various nodes and the hub took place in Sandham (Sweden, 6-8 May). In alternating joint and separate meetings, the HoN and TC’s discussed many issues,… Continue reading →

Dutch ELIXIR Node officially established

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ELIXIR-NL was officially approved and formally established at the first ELIXIR Board meeting earlier this month, together with the ELIXIR Nodes of Denmark, Estonia, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, the Czech Republic and EMBL-EBI. The Dutch Node is hosted and coordinated by DTL. During the meeting a template Collaboration Agreement was adopted. This agreement will form the basis for individual… Continue reading →

Netherlands joins international ELIXIR consortium on biological data

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Utrecht, 3 February 2014 On the 28th of January 2014, the Dutch State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science, Sander Dekker, has ratified the international ELIXIR Consortium Agreement (ECA). This makes The Netherlands the seventh country – and eighth formal member of the ELIXIR research infrastructure with the tagline ‘Data for Life’.  Data for Life As the tagline suggests, the… Continue reading →