The project will provide European researchers, SMEs, and innovators with a decentralized collaborative network, “UNCAN-CONNECT,” for cancer research. It consists of both technical components, a governance, compliance, and operational framework based on the UNCAN blueprint, with the goal of operationalizing it. The objective is to facilitate access to cancer data, promote open science, and revolutionize cancer research and treatment by co-creating an open-source federation of federations platform. It will be developed using specific use cases focused on six major cancer types: Paediatric, Lymphoid malignancies, Pancreatic cancer, Ovarian, Lung, and Prostate cancers and active collaboration with a diverse range of stakeholders, including researchers, SMEs, industrial end users, and citizens. It will build on existing European RIs such as BBMRI as well as initiatives like EOSC4CANCER, CanSERV, EUCAIM, to enable seamless storage, access, sharing, and processing of data across Member States and associated countries. This approach will foster interoperability and collaboration, accelerating progress in cancer research. This action is part of the Cancer Mission clusters of projects ‘Understanding’ established in 2022.
EGI Foundation role in the project:
EGI contributes to the stakeholders’ engagement, awareness and alignment. Moreover, the Foundation contributes to several activities around the UNCAN.eu platform, in particular by:
- leading the IT SMS preparation and the Software Security Vulnerability of the federated and scalable infrastructure services for the UNCAN.eu platform;
- contributing to setting up infrastructure for the federation and decentralised health research environment;
- contributing to the impact assessment, guidelines and recommendations for further deployment of UNCAN-CONNECT.
Expected results:
The project will:
- create and validate the decentralised collaborative network, UNCAN-CONNECT for cancer research, which overcomes important ELSI, technical barriers and solves capability gaps
that currently hinder cross-border collaboration on cancer research; - make available the UNCAN platform, which will connect cancer research teams and resources (European infrastructures, registries, initiatives) to a central UNCAN hub through national UNCAN hubs, creating a collaborative ecosystem where data, knowledge, and expertise flow seamlessly to promote open science;
- set up an interim governance structure to lay the foundation for a fully-fledged governance structure, in close collaboration with HORIZONCSA 01-02 call, ensuring the establishment and scaling up of national cancer data nodes.
Relevance for EGI:
EGI will strengthen the collaboration with the initiatives working towards a Trusted Research Environment for the Cancer community.
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