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Networking activities

This project focuses on training, dissemination, and interaction with other European/global infrastructures and data initiatives in the field of Structural Biology. It aims to train and engage user communities, promote industry outreach, and collaborate with other initiatives. The project website provides information on publications, outreach activities, and engagement statistics.

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Networking activities

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  1. Networking activities WP2 Training, dissemination and outreach WP3 Interaction with other European/global infrastructures and data initiatives

  2. The role of Networking Activities • The role of NAsistwo-fold • Disseminate and advertise the results of West-Life • Define the position of West-Life in the broaderEuropeanscientificcontext • Thesetwolinesprovideguidance to develop West-Life as a referencepointbeyond the SB community

  3. The roles of WP2 and WP3 • WP2 is dealing with • outreach to the user community of SB • engagement of new user communities and industries • Training of users as well as developers • WP3 isdealing with • Interaction with ESFRIs and other (large) projects • Interaction with data science initiatives • Monitoring the evolution of science policy

  4. WP2: Dissemination, Training and Outreach (INSTRUCT)

  5. Work Package Objectives • Training new and existing communities of users in tools, services and methods offered by West-Life VRE – T2.1 • Training for developers – improving tools, enabling more integrated solutions – T2.2 • Outreach and communication: to the European user community; new user communities; industry – T2.3

  6. Website https://about.west-life.eu • New ‘Publications’ page, with live data pulled from OpenAire (not updated?) • Engagement information detailed on ’Publications’ page and ‘Outreach’ page, with statistics and links on the home page • ‘Project’ page has a breakdown; Deliverables and Milestones more visible Social Media • Twitter - 194 followers, 837 tweets @WestLifeSB

  7. Engagement activities Outreach activities • More than 150 lectures by partners mentioning West-Life • 16 events organized by West-Life • 20 published journal articles until 2017 on OpenAIRE (automatically generated page) • 25 published peer-reviewed articles on Web of Science using project number (675858) in Funding Agency field (of which 9 in 2018)

  8. Industry outreach • I2PC-FEI course on image processing applied to the structural characterization of biological macromolecules, Oct. 2016 (CSIC) – Madrid • Represented at PSDI 2016 and 2017 by Instruct • Instruct workshop on CryoEM Best Practices, May 2017- Harwell • FEI-I2PC Cryo-EM Course on Scipion for Facilities June 2018 (CSIC) –Madrid • Supported “iNEXT meets Industry workshop”, March 2018 – Grenoble • West-Life partners attended various workshops/meetings with industrial participation (D2.4) • Industry Flyer and webpages?

  9. Training events User training: • Instruct Course on Model Building and Refinement for High Resolution EM Maps (4th IcknieldWorkshop) • User Training workshop as a satellite event at Instruct Biennial 2017 • International Symposium on Grids and Clouds 2018, Taiwan (CSIC, UU) • 3rd course on Advanced methods for data integration in SB, 2018 (CIRMMP, CSIC, UU) Developer training: • Hands-On course on Cloud Orchestration - April 2017, Brno (MU) - Developer Training • Practical course on integrating computational techniques into Scipion – 2017 (CSIC) - Developer Training

  10. Deliverables and Milestones • MS5 – Training programme plan –publishedon the website • MS6 – Engagement plan –publishedon the website • MS7 – Foresight Meeting –a series of meetings held with CORBEL partners and others • D2.1 – Interim report on user training – report submitted and publishedon the website • D2.2 – Interim report on developer training – report submitted and published in on the website • D2.3 – Summary report on SB community engagement – report submitted and published in on the website • D2.4 – Report on industrial user engagement –on the website • D2.5 – Engagement report – initial draft available; due by the end of the project

  11. WP3: Interaction with other European/global infrastructures and data initiatives(CIRMMP)

  12. Main objectives • Two main objectives • Identify opportunities for collaboration with European and global infrastructures/initiatives that may leverage Structural Biology data specifically (T3.1) or address scientific datain general (T3.2) • Maintain a watch on science policy initiatives (T3.3)

  13. Interaction with RDA • Session of the Structural Biology Interest Group at the Ninth RDA Plenary in Barcelona, Spain (April 2017) • Attended the Eleventh RDA Plenary in Berlin, Germany (March 2018) – poster presentation • Continued collaboration with the Group of European Data Experts (GEDE) Interaction with EGI & EOSC • Panelist at the EOSC Stakeholders’ meeting • Participated in DI4R 2017 (West-Life demo & flash talk) • Participation in various EOSC-Hub (formerly EGI-Engage) meetings

  14. Organization of a Round Table involving ESFRIs • ESFRIs are large Research Infrastructures listed in the Roadmap of the European Strategy Forum. Their users are a potential user basin for us • West-Life and iNEXT co-organized a round table on the occasion of the annual meeting of iNEXT in Brno (CZ), on May24th, 2017 (D3.2) The following participated as panelists: ESFRIs: EATRIS, ECRIN, EuroBioImaging, EuOpenScreen, INFRAFRONTIER, INSTRUCT, ISBE H2020 projects: PhenoMeNal, Edison Other initiatives: IMI

  15. Highlights from the RT discussion • RIs ensure high data quality. They should team up with the EOSC to stimulate similar quality levels from the whole community • Related to the above, the development of validation tools for large data sets (this has a long tradition in SB and is addressed in WP7) • There is a common need for more data stewardship

  16. Follow-up of the Round Table • West-Life and INSTRUCT co-organized a follow-up meeting on the occasion of the annual meeting of CORBEL in Amsterdam (NL) on October 2017 Since the previous RT, a database of all the services of the BMS RIs was developed by MiUF – to be used initially for ERA-NET proposals: http://www.corbel-project.eu/services.html Agreed to work as a group – wrote a charter (MS10)

  17. From the RI charter • Develop promotional material to allow publicity of all BMS RIs already at the level / by the staff of a single RI node • Actively encourage funders to put banners directing to relevant RI services on the occasion of calls for projects • Promote the dissemination of infrastructure services in a cross-disciplinary manner to the whole scientific community Advocate the use of a voucher system by the European Commission as well as international and national funding bodies to access research infrastructures • In general, foster the usage of research infrastructures

  18. D3.5 Publication of a joint document on the usage of structural data in different biomedical Research Infrastructures • Largely drafted by CSIC • Uploaded to Zenodo by CORBEL as a briefing document (doi:10.5281/zenodo.1026294) • Defined the context for the use of structural biology data in biomedical ESFRIs

  19. On science policies • Wemaintained a closewatch on science policiesaffecting SB throughparticipation in: • Meetings of ESFRI SWG H&F • Meetings of the reflection group of INROAD • National BMS discussion panels • RDA conferences (national and plenary) • EC Info Day on INFRAEOSC calls (CIRMMP, CSIC) • Meetings of several scientific advisory boards involving West-Life partners • West-Life is well positioned to address the link between RIs and Open Science policies by providing procedures and technical solutions, initially validated by the ESFRI Instruct and the structural biology community, and subsequently disseminate these achievements to other RIs, particularly within the biomedical sciences.

  20. Upcoming deliverables/milestons • D3.6 Update of the Report on requirements by other RI (working draft)

  21. Metrics (KPI) • Joint publications/position papers involving authors from infrastructures beyond the current partnership • Document from the Round Table in Brno • Document on the usage of structural data in different biomedical RI's • Number of round tables and joint meetings • One West-Life session was included in the first annual meeting of iNEXT • One RT held in Brno • One RT held at the Annual Meeting of CORBEL • Number of sessions at plenary meetings of RDA and other relevant organizations/initiatives • One at the RDA meeting • Workshop at ISGC 2017 - 2018 • Several interactions and talks/demos at EGI and EOSC-Hub conferences • Participation in data-related meetings and initiatives • Participated in Digital Infrastructures for research (DI4r) 2016 and 2017 • Participated at some RDA national initiatives • Involvement in GEDE (RDA spin-off)

  22. What about the future (beyond the project) • Do we want to develop a common «marketing» strategy • What are the main West-Life outcomes to be advertised • How shall we exploit/further the interaction with other RIs (CORBEL, EOSC, ...)

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