www.elixir-europe.org/excelerate ELIXIR-EXCELERATE is funded by the European Commission within the
Research Infrastructures programme of Horizon 2020, grant agreement number
676559.
A perspective from ELIXIR on ESFRI Monitoring
Andrew Smith, Head of External Relations
Milan, 19 November 2018
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A distributed infrastructure of data-related services
Bioinformatics tools: Bio.tools, software development
Databases Deposition, knowledge-bases, data management support
Compute: Secure data transfer, cloud computing, AAI
Interoperability: Standards, Identifiers, FAIR, Ontologies
Training: Training registry, face to face courses, eLearning
ELIXIR’s Landmark Pilot review submission
• ELIXIR happy to volunteer • Submission prepared in early
2017 • 20 pages in length – many
questions and lengthy answers • Not all questions easy to
complete • No accompanying form to give
feedback on the wording of questions
A landscape of many roadmaps and evaluations!
• Assessment of roadmaps by ESFRI and G7 GSO
Implementing ELIXIR: current review processes
National activities
• National roadmap reviews and applications
MS-funded activities • Approval of Financial
Plan and Scientific programme
EU-funded activities • Periodic reports • Mid-term review • Final review
Reviews by Governance Committees
Meets twice annually
F-2-F & TC Meets twice annually
F-2-F
Meets twice annually
F-2-F & TC
Meets four times annually
Two TC and two F-2-F
• Project-specific monitoring
o Linked to operation of specific grants such as EXCELERATE
o KPIs set out in grant applications and monitored by Project Managers
• Programme-specific metrics and KPIs
o Linked to ELIXIR Programme (2014-2018)
o Metrics monitored by Programme Manager
o Reports to ELIXIR Board
• Longer term socio-economic impact
o What are the long-term benefits of ELIXIR?
Monitoring and tracking KPIs within ELIXIR
ELIXIR timeline – KPI lifecycle
• 2006 - Added to ESFRI roadmap
• 2007-2011 - Prep Phase grant
• 2012-2013 - Interim Phase (non-binding MoU)
• 2014 - Established as Permanent entity (ELIXIR Consortium Agreement)
• 2014 - Prioritised by ESFRI and European Council
• 2014-2018 - Implement first 5 year Scientific programme
• 2015-2018 – EXCELERATE grant awarded (20m EUR)
• 2016 - Became ESFRI landmark
• 2018 - Celebrate Fifth Anniversary in December
• 2019-2023 - Implement Second Scientific Programme
RI framework development – refining the process
• Examples of other initiatives/projects aimed at developing common framework for RIs
• InRoad project - two-day interactive workshop and discussions
• G7 GSO global roadmap - extensive testing, dialogue between delegates and RIs, TCs, wording for framework extensively discussed in meetings
• OECD SEIRI – RI’s could give written input on the framework questions, workshops with breakouts, written comments on final suggestions
Final thoughts
• Communicate clearly the purpose and the expected outcomes
• Consider the timing of any reviews or submissions
• Monitoring should utilize existing processes and materials
• Utilize subject experts from ESFRI and each RI
• Communicate the format of the review
ELIXIR Fifth Anniversary
• 11 December 2018 @Crowne Plaza Hotel - Le Palace, Brussels
• 150 attendees expected – ELIXIR representatives, funders, policy-makers, industry
• Mixture of external talks, ELIXIR talks and panel discussion on innovation
• Speakers include European Commission, national funding agencies and ERC Scientific Council
• Registration link
www.elixir-europe.org/excelerate ELIXIR-EXCELERATE is funded by the European Commission within the
Research Infrastructures programme of Horizon 2020, grant agreement number
676559.
A perspective from ELIXIR on ESFRI Monitoring
Andrew Smith, Head of External Relations
Milan, 19 November 2018
Questions to address
• How to do it without generate extra working load to RIs?
• How to define a way to use the internal RIs evaluations run by the owners of the RI in the periodical update (confidentiality)?
• How to introduce the update in the culture of the RIs as part of their planning?
• How to define and use KPI?
• Differences in the approach depending on the type of RI, thematic and single site vs distributed
• How to take into account in the methodology the different position of the landmark lifecycle
