Canada-EU Commission Flagship Collaboration for Human data storage, integration and sharing
Information and Communication Technology
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: Inquire with Unit
Memorial Deadline: Friday 13th, April 2018
External Deadline: Wednesday 18th, April 2018
Description
The goal of this funding opportunity is to build a collaboration of stakeholders in Europe and Canada in the domain of repositories storing and sharing human –omics data that will create a framework for long-term cooperation. In order to do so, this program aims to enhance and standardize data deposition, curation and exchange procedures thus ensuring better data reuse and increased benefit to the scientific communities worldwide.
Projects should develop approaches that integrate data from disparate sources and include one or more of the following elements:
- Data models that guarantee the interoperability of human health research data from different repositories and integrate different types of –omics data and, where relevant, clinical research and lifestyle data. The data models should take into account sex/gender differences where relevant. The projects should build on existing research infrastructures such as –omics repositories, biobanks and registries.
- Reference architecture for data and process interoperability.
- Technologies and methodologies for data harvesting, data access, data transfers, and archiving complex datasets.
- Bioinformatics toolbox to support the analysis and management of data on diseases from a personalized medicine standpoint.
- International ethical and legal governance model for a research data management and storage infrastructure and an associated data management plan compliant with the required level of data security and privacy that is aligned with the recent recommendations of the OECD Council on Health Data Governance.
For complete information on the challenge to be addressed, scope, expected impact, and cross-cutting priorities, please refer to the European Commission funding opportunity.
International Linkages
In order to facilitate the establishment of international, collaborative teams, CIHR and the European Commission are providing the following tools:
Partnering Tool: In order to assist the establishment of international, collaborative teams, CIHR encourages the use of the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) Partnering Tool. The ICPerMed Partnering Tool offers you to search for partners and to present your expertise to the personalized medicine research community. It is not an obligatory step in the application process and does not confer any advantages for the applicants.
Funds Available
CIHR and partner(s) financial contributions for this initiative are subject to availability of funds. Should CIHR or partner(s) funding levels not be available or are decreased due to unforeseen circumstances, CIHR and partner(s) reserve the right to reduce, defer or suspend financial contributions to grants received as a result of this funding opportunity.
- The total amount available to Canadian researchers for this funding opportunity is CAD $5,500,000, enough to fund up to 7 grants from all Canadian funding sources. This amount may increase if additional funding partners participate. The maximum amount per grant is $200,000 per year for up to 4 years for a total of $800,000, per grant. Approved applications may receive an across-the-board cut to their budget, if necessary, to maximize the number of funded applications.
- Of this $5,500,000:
- $500,000 is available from FRQS to support applications relevant to their mandate.
For additional information, please visit CIHR’s website.