The ambition of EUCAN-Connect is to maximize exploitation and capitalization of population cohorts for the European and Canadian community in an optimal scientific and cost-efficient way: existing cohorts should closely collaborate and be made accessible to the global scientific community. Therefore, EUCAN-Connect will develop and deploy a ground-breaking FAIR data sharing, data harmonization, and analysis platform with a sustainable governance framework that is cost-efficient to sustain by the participating cohorts and networks and which facilitates a long-term collaboration between the EU and Canada.
This platform aims to grow an active community to attract new users to share the tools and infrastructure, to ensure better use of existing data, and to build on new methodologies. The project contributes to the three main strategic priorities of the EC, so called ‘3 Os’: Open Science, Open Innovation and Open to the World.
