Project information
Connect and align ELIXIR Nodes to deliver sustainable FAIR life-science data management services (ELIXIR-CONVERGE)

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This project doesn't include Faculty of Science. It includes Central European Institute of Technology. Official project website can be found on muni.cz.
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Project Identification
871075
Project Period
2/2020 - 7/2023
Investor / Pogramme / Project type
European Union
MU Faculty or unit
Central European Institute of Technology
Project Website
https://elixir-europe.org/about-us/how-funded/eu-projects/converge
Keywords
Data Management Plan, FAIR, Data Stewardship, Long Term Sustainability, Research Infrastructure, Impact Assessment, Life Sciences
Cooperating Organization
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the ASCR, v. v. i.
National Center for Scientific Research
University of Cyprus
Tartu Ülikool
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
The Cyprus Foundation for Muscular Dystrophy Research
Swiss Institute Of Bioinformatics Lausanne
VIB
Technical University of Denmark
Barcelona Supercomputing Center

The diversity, complexity and volume, as well as privacy and regulatory considerations, necessitate a collaborative and federated approach to life-science data. For scientists to find and share data across to continuously develop and connect its services. The international ecosystem provided by ELIXIR – with 220 institutes in 23 Nodes, connecting hundreds of bioinformatics services – is globally unique and a competitive advantage for European research. Through our national Nodes ELIXIR has the geographical spread, service portfolio and expertise to fulfil our ambition that every European project uses FAIR data based on common standards, tools and services. The initial operational phase of ELIXIR, supported by the H2020 ELIXIR-EXCELERATE project, focussed on the coordination and delivery of bioinformatics services from national Nodes. This lay the foundation for a coordinated European infrastructure. ELIXIR-CONVERGE will build on these achievements to deliver another critical component: the provisioning, across Europe, of distributed local support for data management based on a toolkit for researchers that enables lifecycle management for their research data according to international standards.
ELIXIR-CONVERGE will develop the national operations of such a distributed research infrastructure to drive good data management, reproducibility and reuse in a heterogeneous funding landscape. Over 36 months and with partners from our 23 Nodes, ELIXIR-CONVERGE takes the next step to realise a European data federation where interconnected national operations, strategically managed via national research infrastructure roadmaps, allow users to extract knowledge from life science’s large, diverse and distributed datasets. By connecting ELIXIR Nodes to provide FAIR data management as a service, ELIXIR-CONVERGE will build national capacity and create a blueprint for operating sustainable Nodes in distributed research infrastructures.

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