ELIXIR organisation is a European intergovernmental organisation that is made up of life scientists, computer scientists and support personnel. ELIXIR main goal is to help researchers take advantage of the huge amounts of data now produced in life science, so that they can gain new insights into how living organisms work in health and disease. In order to accomplish this goal, ELIXIR brings together life science resources from across Europe. These resources include databases, software tools, training materials, cloud storage and supercomputers. ELIXIR includes 21 member countries and over 180 research organisations. In this talk we are going to focus on means in which ELIXIR is contributing to life science research and how researchers can make use of these resources. Also we will discuss how other countries and Ukraine in particular can become an ELIXIR member.