Deadline: 25-Jan-22
European Commission is calling for proposals for Action grants for developing a pilot project for an EU infrastructure ecosystem for the secondary use of health data for research, innovation, policy-making, and regulatory purposes.
The EU cross-border provisions and means to access to health data is fragmented which makes particularly difficult the reuse health data collected during healthcare. There is a need to incentivise and fund a pilot project on EU-wide reuse of health data, taking advantage of national authorities’ legal basis and capabilities to facilitate access to health data sources through common rules, means and procedures.
Objectives
- This consortium will design, develop, deploy and operate a network of nodes (representing different data brokers, holders and data consumers) federated by central services that may be provided by the European Commission.
- This pilot will investigate and establish the value of an infrastructure and data ecosystem for the reuse of health data and assess the ability to scale towards a Union-wide infrastructure, as a core component of the European Health Data Space.
Funding Information
- Available budget for this topic: EUR 5 000 000
- Proposals to be awarded under this topic: One single proposal
- The duration of proposals should range between 12 and 24 months
Expected Results
The expected results of this action are the following:
- Candidate requirements, architecture and specifications for the technological building blocks for an IT and data infrastructure to enable EU-wide reuse of health data;
- Deployment of a working IT infrastructure consisting of, at least, 5 nodes (that can be national authorities empowered by national mandate and legal basis to enable access to health data, ERICs and Research Infrastructures); to these nodes, one could add EU agencies and connection with central services enabling Union-wide reuse of health data;
- Report of the assessment performed on the proposed standards and technological building blocks, including findings and lessons learnt on effectiveness and potential to scale towards a Union-wide solution;
- Report on candidate legal and governance arrangements for a digital infrastructure for efficient cross border reuse of health data;
- Demonstrate the added value of cross-country health data reuse on specific use cases (e.g. scientific research, policy making and regulatory activities).
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible for funding, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies) created under Union law or an international organisation, or
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories linked to it (OCTs)
- eligible non-EU countries:
- EEA countries and countries associated to the EU4Health Programme (third countries, candidate countries and potential candidate countries, neighbourhood countries) or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature.
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