Congratulations ELIXIR Norway and Inge jonassen
On June 26th the Research Council of Norway announced its continued funding to ELIXIR Norway - and 18 other infrastructure funding proposals submitted October 2016
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ELIXIR Norway is lead by professor Inge Jonassen, professor at the Department of Informatics and the head of the Computational Biology Unit at the University of Bergen. ELIXIR Norway includes as partners also the Universities in Oslo, Trondheim, Tromsø and at Ås.
- The funding is for the period 2017-2022 and will allow us to continue and strengthening of our infrastructure solutions - including NeLS (http:/nels.bioinfo.no), our national help desk and training activities, and not the least our role as Node in the European ELIXIR Infrastructure (www.elixir-europe.org), says Jonassen.
Read more about the announcement from the Research Council here (in Norwegian)