ELIXIR priority project on ESFRI roadmap

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

Pan-European Imaging infrastructure gains momentum

Recently the Dutch State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science, Sander Dekker, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the participation of the Netherlands in Euro‐BioImaging. Euro‐BioImaging is a large‐scale pan‐European research infrastructure project on the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) Roadmap. Its mission is to build a distributed imaging infrastructure across Europe that will provide open access to innovative… Continue reading