ELIXIR-NL organization

Governance of ELIXIR-NL

ELIXIR Europe has two main governance bodies with representatives from each Node: the Heads of Nodes and the board with both a scientific and administrative delegate. In addition, a coordinator triangle structure is in place.

Board members

• Board member - administrative delegate: Ana de Castro, NWO
• Board member - scientific delegate: Ruben Kok, Health-RI

Heads of Node:

• co-Head of Node: Magnus Palmblad, LUMC
• co-Head of Node: Auke Damstra UU/CropXR

Coordination Triangle

• Technical Coordinator: Rob Hooft, Health-RI
• Training Coordinator: Celia van Gelder, Health-RI
• Node Coordinator: Julia Bongers, Health-RI

ELIXIR-NL organizations

Host organization

As of 2023, the Dutch ELIXIR Node is hosted by Health-RI. 
Previously, 2014-2022, the Node was by the Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences (DTL).  As of 2023 DTL and Health-RI joined forces, and became Health-RI the host of ELIXIR-NL.

Member organizations

ELIXIR Netherlands (ELIXIR-NL) is a distributed node with many academic institutes in the country participating:

• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)
• Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC)
• Maastricht University (UM)
• Wageningen University & Research (WUR)
• SURF
• Center for Information Technology (CIT)
• Erasmus MC
• Leiden University (LEI)
• Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen (UMCG)
• Lygature
• Utrecht University (UU)
• TNO "Healthy Living"
• Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology
• Amsterdam UMC
• Radboudumc
• Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI)
  
   

ELIXIR-NL representatives in ELIXIR Platforms, Communities, and Focus Groups

ELIXIR Platforms

ELIXIR Platforms bring together experts from Nodes to develop ELIXIR’s technical vision and coordinate activities in defined technical areas. There are five Platforms, and ELIXIR-NL is active in most of them:

ELIXIR Communities

ELIXIR Communities are groups of experts across ELIXIR Nodes and externally that represent a scientific or technological domain, and drive the development of standards, services, and training in and across ELIXIR. They provide an opportunity to be a part of a wide-reaching network, and also offer a mechanism for long-term collaboration with other ESFRIs and large-scale initiatives.  Over 15 different Communities exist, and ELIXIR-NL is active in many of them:

ELIXIR Focus Groups

ELIXIR Focus Groups are more time-limited structures that bring interested parties together around a particular topic.  Typically they are used to address emerging areas of interest and seek to identify a strategy that ELIXIR can follow.