Euro-Australian research infrastructure collaboration in the molecular life sciences

An insight into the Partnership between the Australian BioCommons and ELIXIR

Friday 6 December, 9:00 – 1:30pm – Arrival from 8:30am, lunch from 12:30 – 1:30pm

Room 0M14, UQ Brisbane City, 308 Queen St, Brisbane 4000

Delivery format: Hybrid

Zoom Meeting ID: 893 2402 5800
Passcode: 177920

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Event Description

Relationships and partnerships facilitate successful research infrastructure outcomes. Hubs and projects that manage research infrastructure face the challenge of bringing together distributed facilities and institutes to service their communities. These challenges can be shared when relationships and partnerships are nurtured.

Positive relationships with infrastructure and informatics providers at local and global scales have yielded successful outcomes in the life science research infrastructure community. Australian BioCommons – a digital infrastructure enhancing Australia’s research capabilities across environmental, agricultural, and biomedical science, and ELIXIR – a European intergovernmental organisation dedicated to helping researchers leverage vast amounts of life science data, exemplify such successful collaborations. In the last five years, both ELIXIR and Australian BioCommons have prioritised partnerships with national informatics and infrastructure providers to the benefit of multiple national molecular life science audiences. At a global scale, Australian BioCommons and ELIXIR are into their fourth year of an AUS-EU collaboration agreement, which is an example of a successful global partnership that has yielded fruitful outcomes for the global community of practitioners

See more: (https://www.biocommons.org.au/elixir-collaboration)

This interactive side meeting is an opportunity to showcase some examples of project outcomes that have emerged from partnerships and relationships locally (across Europe and Australia) and globally. We will highlight the collaboration agreement and provide examples of successes to date including key outcomes, and future plans. We plan to discuss common themes, and emergent strategies that have led to this collaboration’s success and partnerships more generally.

The ambition is to produce a short paper outcome which describes the ‘shape’ of a successful collaborative partnership in this space. In presenting these successes, we aim to share good practice with other research infrastructures in attendance from any domains that are looking to establish their own global partnerships and collaborations.

Schedule

Time (AEST)	Description
8:30 – 9:00	Welcome coffee
9:00 – 9:15	Welcome and introduction (Steven Manos, Associate Director of Cyberinfrastructure, Australian BioCommons)
9:15 – 10:00 10:00 – 10:30	Session I: Global collaboration in life science research infrastructures Presentations / talks (10 mins each): ● Ondřej Hradil, Masaryk University, Permanent Expert of the Czech delegation to the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) ● Kelly Scarlett, Manager Partnerships and Engagement, for Bioplatforms Australia, and the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) ● Jeff Christiansen, Co-Director, for the Australian BioCommons ● Tim Hubbard, Director, for ELIXIR Panel discussion (30 mins) (Chair: Steven Manos, Associate Director of Cyberinfrastructure, Australian BioCommons)
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 11:45 – 12:15	Session II: ”In practice” Presentations / talks (15 mins each): ● Nigel Ward, Global development of systems to harness omic informed approaches in biodiversity conservation, for the Australian BioCommons ● Fotis Psomopoulos, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) & ELIXIR Training Coordinator, for ELIXIR Greece ● Gerry Reilly, Interim Director, for BioFAIR, UK Panel discussion (30 mins) (Chair: Joana Wingender, ELIXIR Governance and International Partnerships Officer)
12:15 – 12:30	Concluding remarks (Andrea Guzmán Mesa, ELIXIR International Relations Officer)
12:30 – 13:30	Networking lunch & coffee

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