Photos and presentations from the second annual general meeting of the BioMedBridges partners and external experts and stakeholders, which took place on 10-11 March 2014 in Florence, Italy, are now available.
Under the umbrella of BioMedBridges, the biomedical sciences research infrastructures involved in the project plus AnaEE, ISBE and MIRRI as well as LifeWatch developed a document on the Principles of data management and sharing at European Research Infrastructures. The document makes key recommendations on how data management and sharing via the research infrastructures can be supported and encouraged:
With a launch event in Brussels on 18 December, ELIXIR celebrated assuming its legal entity and entering its permanent phase after Estonia joined the United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in ratifying the Consortium Agreement.
The BioMedBridges Executive Steering Committee met on Friday, 13 December 2013 in Hinxton. The steering committee, hosted by ELIXIR, came together to review the achievements from the first half of the project and discuss the strategy and priorities for the second.
The interactive HandsOn Biobanks conference will take place on 21 – 22 November 2013 in the World Forum, The Hague and will zoom in on questions such as:
Shortly after its Inaugural Conference (find a short Highlights Report here), EATRIS received the status of an ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium). This European legal status is intended to facilitate and support the work of international research infrastructures in Europe.
EU-OPENSCREEN is holding its 3rd stakeholder meeting on 20 November in Oslo, Norway. More information and how to registerhere.
Learn more about the Euro-BioImaging infrastructure model (one of the biomedical sciences research infrastructures involved in BioMedBridges) and about the next steps Euro-BioImaging is taking towards the implementation phase at this upcoming Stakeholder meeting.
More information and how to register here.
The BBMRI-ERIC Inauguration Conferencetook place on 16 September 2013 in Graz, Austria. BBMRI, together with ELIXIR, coordinates the Standards Description and Harmonization work package (WP3) of BioMedBridges.
The conference program highlighted how biobank data can be utilised within personalised medicine and provided a thorough overview of the BBMRI nodes in the research infrastructure's 14 member states. The importance of BBMRI's coordination efforts were stressed.
The scope of BioMedBridges and the Phenobridge Work Package (WP7) were discussed at a recent webinar titled "Databridges enhance access to research data in INFRAFRONTIER". The webinar (held in German) was part of a series on "Open Access to Research Data" hosted by the Helmholtz Association's Open Access Coordination Office. Information on the webinar and the presentation given are available here.
