An Active Investment Strategy for EMBnet: AGM workshop report, Oeiras, June 2015

Authors

  • Teresa K Attwood University of Manchester, Manchester

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14806/ej.21.0.867

Keywords:

EMBnet, workshop, AGM

Abstract

EMBnet’s 2015 AGM and associated activities were hosted in Oeiras (PT), from 10 to 12 June. Marking the 27th formal meeting of EMBnet, the event was an opportunityto take stock and carefully consider EMBnet’s future. Earlier in the year, the Operational Board (OB) had agreed that EMBnet would benefit from active investment in specific projects to galvanise its members and drive the community forward. Accordingly, this year, the AGM activities included a full-day OB meeting as a prelude to a one-day workshopfor the new strategy to be discussed and refined, followed by the traditional business meeting, where the investment plans would be presented for formal endorsement by the Board.

The purpose of this report is to set out the background to the workshop, to explain the motivation for creating the new investment strategy, to detail its principal themes, and to summarise the workshop’s main conclusions.

 

Author Biography

  • Teresa K Attwood, University of Manchester, Manchester
    Professor of Bioinformatics in the Faculty of Life Sciences and School of Computer Science, University of Manchester
EMBnet.journal 21

Downloads

Additional Files

Published

2016-04-01

Issue

Vol. 21

Section

Reports

License

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).