Concept development for a research infrastructure to manage, integrate and sustain large medical cohort studies

This topic aims at supporting the development of new concepts for a research infrastructure at European level, to manage, integrate and sustain large medical cohort studies. The possibility to extend the scope of already existing infrastructures and/or integrate in a sustainable way existing pan-European and national capacities to cover this need and provide RI services for large medical cohort studies should be assessed as a first option, identifying what is missing and the necessary new developments. Such an infrastructure will also enable an appropriate exploitation of past investments by EU framework programmes or other European funders on the development of medical cohorts.

The numerous and diverse medical cohort studies in Europe, initiated at Member States level or in the context of EU-funded projects, require major resource investments to be set up, mature and serve multiple research queries over long period of times. The research potential (e.g. statistical power or geographical coverage) of