The overall objective of EUCAN-Connect is to enable large-scale integrated cohort data analysis for personalized prevention and healthcare by enhancing long-term collaboration between European and Canadian cohort and research networks, maturing and standardising federated cohort metadata sharing, data deposition and access, data curation/harmonization, and exchange procedures and to facilitate pooled analysis of high-value cohort data on environmental factors and omics measures that affect health over the human life course with the aim to facilitate personalized prevention and treatment of disease.
The specific objectives of EUCAN-Connect are:
- to deliver an open, federated data platform to deposit, curate and analyse cohort (meta)data that meets FAIR principles
- to create a sustainable framework for long-term collaboration that enables better data-reuse and increased benefit to scientific communities worldwide
