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League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources

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LEAPS-INNOV Workflow Co-Working Sprint

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We are delighted to announce the “LEAPS-INNOV Workflow Co-Working Sprint” which will take place beginning from 10 February 2023 virtually.

The key idea of workflow tools (e.g. nextflow or snakemake) is that they allow to build scalable automated data processing workflows incorporating different software packages, and then make them portable to different computing environments, making it easier to share with other beamlines and facilities.

For this workshop and mentoring program, which is organized by the LEAPS-INNOV Work Package 7 (Data), a call for abstracts is available and open until 31 January 2023. Beamline scientists, software engineers and others who have software that they would like to share with the wider community are welcome to apply as teams. In the mentoring program, the goal is to pair scientists/engineers with people experienced in using a workflow engines that fosters reproducibility. By working together (remotely) over the course of 6 weeks, starting with the kick-off workshop on 10 February, the teams will facilitate an automated workflow (e.g. that is fit for HPC execution) which will ideally be published on platforms like WorkflowHub so that the community can reuse it.

Further information and the call for abstracts can be found here.

If you have further questions, please directly contact Peter Steinbach.

EVENT NEWS: LEAPS for the Present and Future Grand Challenges in Brussels

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Hosted by MEP and Vice-Chair of the Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) Committee of the European Parliament, Lina Gálvez, LEAPS invited its partners and stakeholders to an in-person event on 31 May 2022, at the premises of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Brussels.

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LEAPS at S|B “HE: the first assessment” event

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Caterina Biscari, LEAPS outgoing Chair and Director of ALBA, participated today, February 9th 2022 in the panel discussion on “Innovation futures: is Europe putting the right building blocks in place?” within the frame of Science Business Annual Conference “Horizon Europe: the First Assessment”.

Together with Jean-David Malo (EISMEA) and Nina Kopola (CEO of Business Finland), Biscari reflected on whether the Horizon Europe program is doing all the right things regarding innovation, employment and additional urgent topics to ensure a successful future for innovation.

Large-scale research infrastructures have an increasingly important role to play in Europe, not only in driving technological innovation, but also in supporting high-growth start-ups and innovative SMEs that depend on the advanced science being conducted in their laboratories.

Biscari mentioned that LEAPS is planning to implement a new type of access named “targeted challenge-driven access” to answer the emerging challenges, linking academy and industry, model that can be greatly boosted if supported by HE programs. To this point, Caterina Biscari also added how essential it is to attract talents and find ways to bring experts in RIs to companies. “We need to bridge research centers and Industry through training and mobility programmes supported by dedicated grants,” explained Biscari.

Finally, she stated that national facilities could collaborate more effectively if brought together under the EU umbrella in order to be ready to answer current societal challenges. “European support is indispensable at this stage to enable technological development for the future with joint forces “concluded Biscari.