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Informed: ELIXIR Newsletter - Summer 2016

With ELXIR-EXCELERATE in full swing, there are many activities currently taking place in ELIXIR. In this issue we present an overview of recent activities in our Training and Interoperability Platforms. You can also read reports from the launch of the ELIXIR Data Nodes Network and from our latest Innovation and SME Forum in Oslo, Norway.The ELIXIR Board held its fifth meeting in Prague in April and approved the application of three more countries to join ELIXIR: Germany, Ireland and Luxembourg will become ELIXIR members once they ratify the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement.Finally, we have launched a Call for ELIXIR Posters at ECCB 2016 in the Hague, this September. Alongside the ELIXIR Applications track, the ELIXIR Poster session will present the full scope of ELIXIR technical and scientific activities.