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BY-COVID: A new EU project for pandemic preparedness
Today marks the launch of a new €12 million Horizon Europe funded project, BeYond-COVID (BY-COVID), which will tackle the data challenges that currently hinder effective pandemic response. The primary aim of the project is to ensure that data on SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious diseases can be found and used by everyone across Europe.
Lygature, together with 52 partners from 20 countries, will build and expand upon the successful COVID-19 Data Platform, a resource initiated in the early stages of the pandemic and led by EMBL-EBI. Since its launch, many countries have established their own national data hubs which ensures that data produced locally can be instantaneously connected and shared with the main COVID-19 Data Portal. A successful example in the Netherlands was initiated by HEALTH-RI. To facilitate and stimulate an integrated health data infrastructure, Health-RI launched the Dutch COVID-19 Data Support Programme which includes the COVID-NL portal.
BY-COVID will run for 36 months and focus on:
- Mobilising data: Ensuring data from around the world can easily be submitted to core data hubs.
- Connecting diverse data sources: not only patient data, but also virus (variant) data.
- Standardising data: Providing recommended data management best practices and standards for sharing data across Europe.
- Exposing and analysing data: Providing data analysis methods and protocols.
Jan-Willem Boiten, Program Manager at LygatureWe are proud to be involved on behalf of the Health-RI COVID-NL portal to link our national efforts to the European network to improve our European pandemic preparedness.
For more information, please visit the BY-COVID website