Objective
euCanSHare will develop the first centralised, secure and sustainable platform for enhanced cross-border data sharing and multi-cohort personalised medicine research in cardiology. At its heart, the platform will contain the most comprehensive cardiovascular data catalogue ever assembled, which will facilitate data discoverability and exploitation in full alignment with the FAIR principles. The project will implement the interoperability of currently fragmented yet mature IT solutions developed by the consortium members for generating a comprehensive multi-functionality platform. It will also integrate major cardiovascular data sources from Europe and Canada, including the renowned MORGAM, BiomarCaRE and CAHHM initiatives. euCanSHare’s legal framework will be built through detailed ethical and legal interoperability analysis, while investigating innovative solutions for promoting responsible Open Science based on the emerging blockchain technology.
Initially populated with 35 European and Canadian cohorts (corresponding to about one million records), the platform will provide extensive functionalities, including for data deposition, data harmonisation and quality control, which will support the integration of new cohorts beyond the duration of the project, thus ensuring its scalability. Moreover, sustainability will be targeted by leveraging through our multi-disciplinary partners the most established data infrastructures, namely ELIXIR, EGA, BBMRI and euro-BioImaging in Europe, as well as Maelstrom from Canada. The unique features of the platform will be demonstrated and adjusted through several use cases, including for biomarker validation, knowledge discovery, cardiovascular risk assessment, public health research and industry-driven studies. Furthermore, intensive outreach campaigns and hands-on workshops will be organised to attract a range of stakeholders, data providers and end-users from the academic, public health and industrial sectors.
Field of science
- /medical and health sciences/health sciences/public and environmental health
- /medical and health sciences/clinical medicine/cardiology/cardiovascular diseases
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-SC1-2018-Single-Stage-RTD
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
08007 Barcelona
Spain
Participants (16)
H3H 2R9 Montreal
20251 Hamburg
00198 Rome
3015 GD Rotterdam
E1 4NS London
H3A0G4 Montreal
3000 Leuven
08034 Barcelona
08003 Barcelona
06903 Biot Sophia Antipolis
8010 Graz
L8S 4L8 Hamilton
00271 Helsinki
17489 Greifswald
08034 Barcelona
08002 Barcelona
