Dec-July ongoing

Ondrej Hradil (Instruct-CZ), Dave Stuart (Director), Lucia Banci (Instruct-IT), Jose Maria Carazo (Instruct-ES), Gunter Schneider (Instruct-SE) and Susan Daenke (Hub Coordinator) continued their work within the Instruct Business group. Next meeting will take place in Brussels 8^th of September.

20-22 April

2^nd May

Susan Daenke participated in the CORBEL retreat in Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire “Ensure continued alignment of CORBEL with BMS RI strategic drivers” (Instruct and Infrafrontier co-leads CORBEL WP5).

Narayanan Krishnan joined the Instruct Hub as CORBEL Developer to work on a joint solution for access spanning the BMS Research Infrastructures on the ESFRI Roadmap and the Landmark Projects.

3^rd May

Oxford Particle Imaging Centre utilise facility management services from ARIA by Instruct to manage usage of high-end cryo-EM instruments.

11^th – 13^th May

Lorraine Gough (Finance Officer) participated of the EMTRAIN general assembly

16^th of May

Astbury Biostructure Laboratory, University of Leeds rolled out facility management powered by ARIA to support access to their high-end EM and NMR machines as well as local facility management and booking.

18^th of May

Susan Daenke participated of iNEXT Management Committee

24^th of May

Claudia Alén Amaro (Instruct Project Manager) and Narayanan Krishnan chaired the video conference of West-Life Workpackage 2. West-Life is an initiative to develop a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) in the e-Infrastructure programme (EINFRA-9-2015), of which Instruct is a beneficiary partner.

31^at of May

Susan Daenke and Callum Smith (Instruct Developer) participated of AARC2/CORBEL meeting in Paris to plan a joint workshop in preparation for AARC2, of which Instruct and CORBEL are both beneficiary partner applicants.

31^at of May

Narayanan Krishnan and Susan Daenke participated of CORBEL Workpackage 4 teleconference.

31^at of May

Narayanan Krishnan and Susan Daenke participated of CORBEL Workpackage 5-7-8-9 teleconference.

9^th of June

Narayanan Krishnan and Claudia Alén Amaro participated of West-Life Operational Committee videoconference.

14th June

The Instruct training committee lead by Lucia Banci opened the call for the training courses to be organised in 2017. Instruct offers a range of workshops delivered at Instruct Centres by internationally recognised experts. The committee also approved the opening of the call for the 2016 Internship programme.

15^th of June

Meeting at the Instruct Hub of the Instruct Academic Services Ltd Board of Directors with Susan Daenke and Claudia Alén Amaro supporting.

21^at of June

Narayanan Krishnan and Susan Daenke participated of CORBEL Executive Committee.

28^th of June

Claudia Alén Amaro participated at a stakeholders meeting organised by the European Commission to discuss Horizon 2020 calls management so far.

4^at of July

A new call for proposals for Instruct pilot R&D projects was open with the approval of the Instruct Executive Committee. For more information and to apply please click here.

5^at of July

Claudia Alén Amaro presented a poster on Instruct Research Infrastructure access management at the Oxford Research Support and Innovation Conference

8^th of July

Naranayan Krishnan and Callum Smith participated on a West-Life authentication and authorisation infrastructure (AAI) discussion to present learning from ARIA AAI and discuss options to ensure user-communities are engaged to the virtual research environment (VRE).

11^th of July

Susan Daenke participated at the Portugal Affiliate Centre Meeting (PCISBIO) in Lisbon. Success stories from Instruct users were presented. One of them is summarised here

13^th of July

14^th of July

The UK Host Ministry delegate MRC hosted a meeting of the Ministry representatives of all Instruct Member countries to work towards the preparation of the step 2 application for ERIC status. Harry Tuinder for the European Commission joined by teleconference to express the positive feedback on the Step 1 application submitted in January.

AARC2 grant proposal progressed to the Grant agreement stage on the European Commission participant portal.

21^st of July

Instruct, Euro-BioImaging and CORBEL met to discuss the implementation of ARIA to host the an Open call for pilot multi-RI applications and the opportunity for EuBI application management to be hosted by ARIA through collaborative ongoing development.

8^th September

Instruct Business Working Group

9^th of September

Instruct Executive Committee

10-13^th September

Instruct and iNEXT will have a stand at the EMBO meeting (Tassos Perrakis and Claudia Alén Amaro )

21^st September

Instruct Council videoconference

28^th-30^th September

Digital infrastructure for Research Conference (Callum Smith and Narayanan Krishnan)

3^rd to 5^th October

ICRI 2016 – South Africa (Instruct Director, Prof David Stuart and Instruct Coordinator, Susan Daenke)