EUCAN-Connect
A federated FAIR platform enabling large-scale analysis of high-value cohort data connecting Europe and Canada in personalized health
- Durada
- 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2023
- Coordinador
- Morris Swertz
- Finançadors
- H2020-EU and BBMRI-ERIC
- Pàgina web
- http://www.eucanconnect.eu
Rapid progress in information and biotechnologies offers the promise of better, personalized health strategies using rich phenotypic, environmental and molecular (omics) profiles of every individual. To capitalize on this great promise, key challenge is to relate these profiles to health and disease while accounting for high diversity in individuals, populations and environments. Both Europe and Canada have long-term investments in population-based prospective cohort studies providing essential longitudinal data. These data must be analysed in unison to reach statistical power, however, presently cohort data repositories are scattered, hard to search and integrate, and data protection and governance rules discourage central pooling.
EUCAN-Connect will enable large-scale integrated cohort data analysis for personalized and preventive healthcare across EU and Canada. This will be based on an open, scalable data platform for cohorts, researchers and networks, incorporating FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) for optimal reuse of existing data, and building on maturing federated technologies, with sensitive data kept locally and only results being shared and integrated, in line with key ELSI and governance guidelines. Widespread uptake will be promoted via beyond state-of-the-art research in close collaboration with leading cohort networks, focused on early-life origins of cardio-metabolic, developmental, musculoskeletal and respiratory health and disease impacting human life course.
To address challenges of sustainability and curation, we will deliver innovative solutions for distributed, low-cost data harvesting and preservation, community curation/harmonization, privacy protection, open source bioinformatics toolbox development, and international governance. EUCAN-Connect platform and collaborations will be coordinated through BBMRI-ERIC (EU) and Maelstrom Research (Canada) to sustain long-term benefits to science and citizens worldwide.
Total funding
€ 6,399,030.00
Our Team
Coordinator
- Morris Swertz
ISGlobal Team
- Anne-Claire Binter Investigadora postdoctoral
- Amanda Fernandes Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Mònica Guxens Associate Research Professor
- Martine Vrijheid Research Professor
Altres projectes
Veure projectes passatsProjecte INMA - Infància i Medi Ambient
Born in Bradford
EGG/EAGLE
Early Genetics Growth/Early Genetics and Lifecourse Epidemiology
HBM4EU
APACHE
Air Pollution, Autism spectrum disorders, and brain imaging in CHildren amongst Europe
ELFES
LIFECYCLE
Early-life stressors and LifeCycle health
STOP - Childhood Obesity
Science and Technology in childhood Obesity Policy
BiSC (Barcelona Life Study Cohort)
HERA
Integrating Environment and Health Research: a Vision for the EU
ATHLETE
Advancing Tools for Human Early Lifecourse Exposome Research and Translation
MOOD-COVID
Pre- and post-natal Maternal mental health and newbOrn neurOdevelopment during the COVID-19 panDemic
OBERON
An integrative strategy of testing systems for identification of EDs related to metabolic disorders