Subject: FOR ACTION - Save the date: 13-14 November 2025. Meeting for the OCPs for Bioinformatics in Stockholm, Sweden
From: "ECDC Microbiology" <[email-masked]>
To: Ákos Tóth <[email-masked]>, "Anke Wienecke" <[email-masked]>, "Anna Margret Halldorsdottir" <[email-masked]>, "Brendan Denis Kinahan" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, "Carina Brehony" <[email-masked]>, "Javier Castro Alvarez" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>,Dragan Jurić <[email-masked]>, "Emanuela Giombini" <[email-masked]>,Emre Umut Gürpınar <[email-masked]>, "Erika Lindh" <[email-masked]>, "Esther Walser-Domjan" <Esther.Walser-Domjan
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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:24:45 +0300

Tähelepanu! Tegemist on väljastpoolt asutust saabunud kirjaga. Tundmatu 
saatja korral palume linke ja faile mitte avada.

Dear Operational Contact Points for Bioinformatics,

Please save the date for an upcoming hybrid meeting for the OCPs for 
Bioinformatics in Stockholm, Sweden and online on 13-14 November 2025. From 
noon on the 13th, to the afternoon of the 14th, including a dinner on the 
13th.

Each Member State can nominate one OCP for Bioinformatics to attend the 
meeting in person, while any further OCPs for Bioinformatics from your 
country can attend online.

The main themes of the meeting will be:

*	Information sharing and networking among the network members
*	Identification of areas of collaboration
*	Consultation on the direction of ECDC within the field of Bioinformatics

We also extend an invitation for country presentations, if you are 
interested in presenting on bioinformatics activities, systems, methods, 
opportunities, or challenges in your country/institute, please reply to this 
email or contact [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]> 
and we can discuss. If we do not get any volunteers in this round, we will 
reach out actively in the coming weeks.

According to the Rules of Reimbursement (Rules for reimbursement of expenses 
incurred by invitees invited by ECDC 
<https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/rules-reimbursement-expenses-incurred-invitees-invited-ecdc> 
 ), ECDC will organize and cover the costs of your flight (including travel 
insurance) and accommodation according to the meeting agenda and provide you 
with meals. You will also be entitled to claim the daily subsistence 
allowance and public transportation to/from the airport after attending the 
meeting by completing and submitting a Reimbursement application. No 
reimbursements are foreseen for participants based in Stockholm.

Best wishes,

Erik Alm on behalf of the ECDC Microbiology team

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

Gustav III:s boulevard 40, 169 73 Solna, Sweden

Phone +46 (0)8 58 60 10 00

www.ecdc.europa.eu

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