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ELIXIR Norway (NMBU - Norwegian University of Life Sciences node) were delighted to host the ELIXIR Industry Engagement Day 2025 in Oslo, bringing together 47 participants from leading aquaculture companies and research institutes to explore how open genomic data can drive innovation in salmon breeding and production. Talks from ELIXIR and EuroFAANG RI highlighted efforts to bridge academia and industry through shared data infrastructures, while presentations and a hands-on salmobase.org session showcased advances in genomics, AI, and phenotyping tools. The event closed with an open forum identifying priorities for improved data access and collaboration.

🙌 Join #ELIXIR’s international and dynamic team as the ELIXIR Head of Operations. Apply now: https://loom.ly/uHj611E As Head of Operations, you will play a pivotal role 💡 in ensuring the smooth and efficient running of ELIXIR’s distributed organisation and take responsibility for the effective delivery of ELIXIR’s governance, planning, financial and administrative frameworks. 🎯 You will shape and oversee ELIXIR’s annual planning and budgeting cycles and drive digital transformation to increase efficiency and reduce administrative burden. #ResearchInfrastructures #hiring

📣 ELIXIR, Euro-BioImaging, Instruct-ERIC and the EMBL have joined forces to establish 🙌 a European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Node - Life Sciences Connect - as part of the newly formed #EOSCFederation. The four organisations have signed a memorandum of understanding outlining their shared commitment to support life science capacity within #EOSC. The EOSC Life Sciences Connect Node brings together 🧬 #biodata expertise and resources to improve access to repositories, software tools, services, standardised workflows and reproducible methods for 🔬 #lifescience researchers. 🤝 It will work with other #EOSC nodes to share expertise and give users access to interoperable, #FAIR, secure and ethically compliant data, services and computational resources across Europe 🌍. Read the news: https://loom.ly/9BLk_tY #ResearchInfrastructure

💡 To celebrate the Open Access Week #OAWeek, today’s #ELIXIRFridayReads we are revisiting the ELIXIR position paper on the importance of #opendata infrastructure for European 🌍 competitiveness in life sciences. In the position paper, 🔍 we look at how open data resources are essential to research and innovation, why open data is a strategic asset and what actions are needed to secure its future. Read the paper 👉 https://loom.ly/ZjbrX2c

✨ #ELIXIR is looking for a Head of Operations to lead the Operations team at the ELIXIR Hub and 🤝 coordinate the implementation of our scientific programme. Apply by 15 November 👉 https://lnkd.in/ex9cKsPZ #ResearchInfrastructures #hiring

Did you know that the EU is actively preparing for the next pandemic through the EVORA project ? EVORA brings together 3 expert Research Infrastructures in viral resource provision (EVA - AISBL), high-containment services (ERINHA) and data management solutions (ELIXIR) to offer virology researchers and public health stakeholders access to an integrated panel of relevant resources and services, through streamlined accesss, during pandemics. 

👀 The BioHackathon Europe 2025 will be in two weeks! 🙌 Let's take a look back at the BioHackathon 2024. Read the BioHackathon 2024 report to see the highlights of the event and the projects 👉 https://loom.ly/NJ_EgDc We look forward to seeing more collaborations and progress of projects in this year's BioHackathon! 💪 #BioHackEU25

🎯 Long-term sustainability of a #DataInfrastructure is challenging but critical. 💡 Today's #ELIXIRFridayReads is a paper focusing on financing models that support #dataresources and associated services in a long-term data infrastructure. The paper also provides recommendations 🙌 for infrastructure providers/creators, infrastructure users, and national and international research funding organisations. Read more: https://loom.ly/9UihRMg ELIXIR-Netherlands Health-RI #ResearchInfrastructure ESFRI - European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures