CORBEL and EOSC-Life organize the webinar series "Engaging with your community through events and training". This is the last webinar of the series and will be an interactive discussion where you can ask questions and get tips about your training events and communication. You can send your questions in advance when you register or by sending them to Marta Lloret (marta.lloret@ebi.ac.uk). In this way, we can discuss the most interesting topics for you.

You should attend or watch the 3 previous webinars of the series if you want to attend this one.
Webinar 1: https://www.corbel-project.eu/webinars/event-management.html

Webinar 2: https://www.corbel-project.eu/webinars/course-design-and-delivery-guidance-and-tips-for-impactful-training.html

Webinar 3: https://www.corbel-project.eu/webinars/practical-tips-for-stepping-up-your-science-communications.html

Note that this webinar will not be available for posterior viewing.

Register now in the CORBEL webinar section.

CORBEL and EOSC-Life organise the webinar series "Engaging with your community through events and training", presentated by Sarah Morgan (EMBL-EBI) and Gabriella Rustici (University of Cambridge).

This webinar will provide a practical look at course design and delivery, giving guidance on the key elements you need to consider to ensure your training meets the needs of your intended audience. It will also provide some tips for successful delivery and a brief look at how you can assess the impact your training has in the short and long term.

The webinar includes an audience Q&A session during which attendees can ask questions and make suggestions. Please note that all webinars are recorded and available for posterior viewing.

Register here in the CORBEL webinar section.

The ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum is a unique opportunity for researchers from academia and industry to come together to discuss challenges and opportunities relating to data creation, storage, use and analysis in the agritech sector. Further details, programme and registration: https://elixir-europe.org/events/sme-2020-lyon

The RI-VIS project brings together Research Infrastructures – organizations created to serve particular research communities – in order to work together more efficiently and effectively. Our 13 partners come from the life sciences, climate science and social sciences to better coordinate research on national and institutional levels.

Now we are looking to exchange know-how with research organizations beyond Europe. Our Africa-Europe symposium, held at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, 23-24 March 2020, will bring together staff from the European infrastructures and South African and other African research infrastructures and institutions who might be interested in collaborations. We also invite representatives from relevant funding agencies as well as policy makers to join and discuss opportunities for working together. By bringing together the right people we hope to create collaborations and initiate networks in a sustainable way so that all stakeholders benefit.

Interested in attending? For more information and to register please see https://ri-vis.eu/network/rivis/events/ri-vis-africa-europe-symposium or contact coordinator(at)ri-vis.eu.

CORBEL and EOSC-Life organise the webinar series "Engaging with your community through events and training". The series continues with a panel discussion between Caitlin Ahern (BBMRI-ERIC), Katri Ahlgren (ICOS ERIC), Stefan Swift (European Social Survey), and Luiza Fundatureanu (ZN Consulting).

Join us for an interactive discussion with science communicators who will share concrete examples and tips for improving your scientific communications – especially when budget and time resources are limited! The speakers come from a range of fields and will have plenty of time for Q&A and discussions.

This webinar includes an audience Q&A session during which attendees can ask questions and make suggestions. Please note that all webinars are recorded and available for posterior viewing.

Register here in the CORBEL webinar section.

CORBEL and EOSC-Life organise the webinar series "Engaging with your community through events and training". The series continues with a presentation by Sarah Morgan (EMBL-EBI) and Gabriella Rustici (University of Cambridge).

This webinar will provide a practical look at course design and delivery, giving guidance on the key elements you need to consider to ensure your training meets the needs of your intended audience. It will also provide some tips for successful delivery and a brief look at how you can assess the impact your training has in the short and long term.

The webinar includes an audience Q&A session during which attendees can ask questions and make suggestions. Please note that all webinars are recorded and available for posterior viewing.

Register here in the CORBEL webinar section.

CORBEL and EOSC-Life are running a webinar series on communication and event organisation. In this series we will discuss about event management, course design and delivery, and effective scientific communication. You do not need to watch all of the webinars. You can dip in and out and watch only the webinars you are interested in. You can watch them live or catch up on the recordings. If you attend the last webinar of the series, we recommend that you have attended or watched the three previous webinars. You will need to register for each of the live webinars that you wish to join by using the registration in the webinar section.

Audience: This webinar series is aimed at anyone involved in scientific communication, training or event management who wants to learn more about how to deliver effective communication and successful events.

The 1st annual general meeting (AGM) of the EOSC-Life project will take place on 3-4 March 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. EOSC-Life is the new cluster project of the European life science RIs within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), aiming at creating an open collaborative space for digital biology in Europe. The 1st EOSC-Life AGM will comprise one day open to selected stakeholders and a second internal day for the consortium.

The meeting will be organised back-to-back with the final CORBEL meeting (2 March 2020).

Due to travel restrictions in northern Italy because of the Corona virus, the location of the CORBEL Final Meeting (as well as the EOSC-Life AGM) has been changed to Brussels, Belgium.

We realise that a short-notice move is inconvenient and might incur extra costs, nevertheless we believe it is important to not cancel or postpone the project AGMs. Especially for CORBEL, with the project ending at the end of May, it would be very challenging to find a new date, venue and start from scratch with the organisation.

We would ask you therefore to please state whether or not you will attend by FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY via this new Eventbrite page https://meetings_in_brussels.eventbrite.co.uk (THE HOTEL)

Travel and accommodation information can be found in Eventbrite too.

The Agendas stay the same: CORBEL and EOSC-Life

Please accept our apologies for the last minute move, but we hope to see as many of you next week nevertheless! Many thanks for your understanding!

CORBEL Final Meeting Date: 2 March, 2020

EOSC-Life AGM Date: 3 – 4 March, 2020

Venue: BRUSSELS, The Hotel Brussels (https://www.thehotel-brussels.be/en/home.htm)

Due to travel restrictions in northern Italy because of the Corona virus, the location of the CORBEL Final Meeting (as well as the EOSC-Life AGM) has been changed to Brussels, Belgium.

We realise that a short-notice move is inconvenient and might incur extra costs, nevertheless we believe it is important to not cancel or postpone the project AGMs. Especially for CORBEL, with the project ending at the end of May, it would be very challenging to find a new date, venue and start from scratch with the organisation.

Amsterdam plays host to the next ARIA workshop that will be held on the 25th of February 2020. The workshop will be a series of talks that will give a background to the ARIA software and introduce some of its core features. We will be demonstrating the newly released features around visit and session management, including the financial reporting module developed in collaboration with EU-OPENSCREEN. There will also be an interactive feedback session for feedback and ideas gathering to help shape the future of ARIA. We hope that you will be able to join us at the event, supported by CORBEL and iNEXT with the room provided by the NKI.

Learn more & register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aria-workshop-corbel-inext-instruct-eric-tickets-78013220643

The CORBEL Innovation Helpdesk team is organizing a best practice workshop on the theme of public-private research collaboration on 13-14 February 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal. This 2-day event will focus on all relevant aspects of setting up such collaborations, from initial contacts through planning and negotiation to completion of legal agreements and project implementation. In addition to plenary lectures covering various aspects there will be a use case for participants to work on in teams.

The workshop is aimed primarily at representatives of research infrastructures and academic institutions who are or expect to be involved in the organization and implementation of such collaborative research programmes. More information, the registration link and the agenda can be found here.

The CORBEL Innovation Helpdesk team is organizing a best practice workshop on the theme of public-private research collaboration on 13-14 February 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal. This 2-day event will focus on all relevant aspects of setting up such collaborations, from initial contacts through planning and negotiation to completion of legal agreements and project implementation. In addition to plenary lectures covering various aspects there will be a use case for participants to work on in teams.

The workshop is aimed primarily at representatives of research infrastructures and academic institutions who are or expect to be involved in the organization and implementation of such collaborative research programmes. More information, the registration link and the agenda can be found here.

The FAIRplus Innovation and SME Forum is a unique opportunity for researchers from academia and industry to come together to discuss challenges and opportunities relating to making data created by the private sector Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). Further details, programme and registration: https://elixir-europe.org/events/fairsme-2020-hinxton

This joint CORBEL/EOSC-Life workshop is meant to assess technical solutions for anonymisation and pseudonymisation of data and their GDPR compliance. It will complete the CORBEL data sharing toolkit by providing researchers with guidance on which tools are suitable for which purpose and context. In addition, a possible link to the EOSC will also be discussed, to explore what type of de-identification services would be needed and for which applications (use cases).

The 4 day workshop is organized in collaboration with Leica Microsystems and is meant for people that do not have experience with the Tokuyasu technique. Experience in resin sectioning is not necessary, but is definitely an advantage. The workshop is primarily practical in nature, although some topics will be dealt with in lectures.

Date: January 20-23, 2020, and an optional extra day (24th) focused on Correlative Light and Electron microscopy

Location: UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands

More information: http://www.cellbiology-utrecht.nl/electron-microscopy-courses/cryosectioning-and-immuno-electron-microscopy.html

The 3 day workshop organized in collaboration with Leica Microsystems is meant for people that do not have experience with standard preparation techniques for transmission electron microscopy. This workshop is primarily practical in nature, although some topics will be dealt with in lectures.

Date: January 15-17, 2020

Location: UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands

More information: http://www.cellbiology-utrecht.nl/electron-microscopy-courses/resin-electron-microscopy.html

Are you interested in learning how to file a request and respond to a request in the BBMRI-ERIC Negotiator in the most effective manner? Do you want to hear about the recent usability improvements implemented in the Negotiator service? In this talk, BBMRI-ERIC IT and Data Protection Manager Petr Holub will provide an overview of the Negotiator architecture and its integration with findability services and shows practical examples of how to interact with it as a biobanker as well as a researcher. Michael Hummel, Coordinator of GBA and Director of CS IT, will also speak. More information here.

The joint meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) will focus on cell biology as the fundamental basis of biology, and will offer sessions on emerging topics such as nontraditional model organisms, and the use of computational modeling and biophysics.

More information: https://www.ascb.org/2019ascbembo/

The next meeting of the CORBEL Medical Infrastructure Users Forum (MIUF) will be held on 6 December 2019 in Brussels. The main topics will be the progress made so far in building a collaborative framework between medical research communities and pan-European Research Infrastructures; and how to get ready for the future European Open Science Cloud. A draft agenda is available here.

The CORBEL MIUF (WP3.1) is designed to promote close collaboration, at the pan-EU level, between medical research communities, funding bodies, and medical research infrastructures. In particular, its mission consists of

• promoting the establishment of pan-European scientific communities, providing the scientific content and access to patients
• clearly defining the respective roles of infrastructures vs. scientific communities, avoiding gaps, overlaps and fragmentation
• capturing the needs of the scientific communities and of the funders in terms of infrastructure services
• ensuring the appropriate development and deployment of these services by one or multiple research infrastructures.

The Event management webinar will focus on practical aspects of event organisation within EU research projects and will guide you through some of the most important considerations and criteria for events funded from EU projects. It will also present a step-by-step guide for event organisation to help you plan and organise your events, while avoiding common mistakes which may lead to many stressful situations. The webinar will also cover communication and promotion and will give you practical tips to promote your event and efficiently communicate its outcomes. At the end of webinar you will be able to download the practical guidelines for your future events.

Speaker: Dana Cernoskova (Scientifika - events for science)

Date: 3 December 2019

Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM CET

More informatione is available here.

Interested in discovering the landscape of Translational Medicine? Want to learn about the job profiles of scientists in Industry?

Then join the 2019 Winter school "Translational Medicine Explained (TMex)" which will be held in the beautiful Palau Macaya in Barcelona from November 11th – 15th. The fee of 450 Euro includes the 5 day course in Barcelona, catering during the course, one dinners and the e-learning. For more information see here. Review of application documents will be on a first come, first serve basis.

The TMex winter school 2019 builds on the experience of the C-COMEND and ENLIGHT-TEN courses on translational research and medicine development which in 2016, 2017 & 2018 delivered three highly valued courses. This what the students say:

• If you have the opportunity to take part in this course – do it. It will fundamentally change your view on how your work as a research scientist can make a difference in the real world outside your lab (Konstantin Kuhne)
• Very interactive course with a non-traditional approach. The course reflects the reality of translational medicine: getting a lot of people with different backgrounds to work together as a team (Miriam Ayuso)
• My expectations to the course were very high, and they were fulfilled (Sandra Heckers)
• It was a difficult decision to leave the lab for 5 days but it absolutely worth it (Kevin Ferreira)

Confirmed speakers:

• Bob Harris, Professor Immunotherapy, Karolinska
• Keith Williams, Director, KW Drug Developments
• Mike Hardman, independent (formerly AstraZeneca)
• Toni Andreu and Anton Ussi, Directors EATRIS
• Joaquin Sáez Peñataro, Clinical Pharmacologist and Spanish correspondent for ECRIN

Find out more:

rosanvegter@eatris.eu

Registration site: https://www.cognitoforms.com/EATRISERIC/TMexCourseInTranslationalMedicine

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlOcRYIcels

Date: November 11-13, 2019

Location: Fisciano Campus, University of Salerno, Italy

Deadline for submitting abstracts for oral communications is July 15, 2019.

More information: http://www.igst.it/nettab/2019/ https://www.bbcc-meetings.it/

The Europe Biobank Week 2019 will take place in Lübeck (Germany) from 8-11 October 2019. Registration is possible here. Additional practical courses and pre-conference workshops will take place on 7 and October, respectively. Check out the extensive programme and social events here. Lufthansa Group Partner Airlines is partnering with the organisers to offer discounted flight rates for EBW 2019 attendees - find out more here.

The 2nd CORBEL Service Operator and User Meeting at the EMBL in Heidelberg, organised by CORBEL WP4, will bring together European scientists who have been supported by CORBEL, and the research infrastructure Service Operators for exchange of experience. Project presentations by participants will illustrate how CORBEL support advanced their projects. Special requirements of industrial partners in accessing RI resources as well as future developments in the field of scientific collaborations and data sharing will be discussed.

BASEL LIFE: Showcasing Europe's Excellence in Life Sciences

More information: https://www.basellife.org/2019.html