Name: Riding the Next Wave of Research Data: Leveraging the COVID-19 response towards advancing data interoperability
Start: 2021-06-07T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2021-06-07T16:30:00+02:00
Location: LNEC

Riding the Next Wave of Research Data: Leveraging the COVID-19 response towards advancing data interoperability

Monday 7 June 2021 - 10:30

Monday 7 June 2021
10:30
10:30 - 11:15
Contributions

10:30 Speech by Manuel Heitor, Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education, Government of Portugal

10:40 Speech by Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, European Commission

10:49 Speech by Simona Kustec, Minister of Education, Science and Sport, Republic of Slovenia

10:57 Speech by Michael Meister, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Federal Republic of Germany

11:05 Speech by Edith Heard, Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
11:15
11:15 - 13:15
Contributions

11:15 Session Chair - André Peralta-Santos (DGS)

11:20 Data exchange for pandemic preparedness and management in the Union - Marion Koopmans (Erasmus MC)

11:30 The European COVID-19 Data platform: Mobilising open and FAIR data in Europe and beyond: Lessons learnt and challenges - Kostas Glinos (EC) Rolf Apweiler (EMBL-EBI)

11:45 Q&A

11:50 Towards a Portuguese COVID-19 data portal - Mário Silva (Biodata.pt/ELIXIR PT) Patrícia Calado (AICIB)

11:55 The Swedish COVID-19 data portal: From leveraging infrastructure investment to brokering Public Health submission - Johan Rung (Uppsala University)

12:00 The Spanish COVID-19 data portal: connecting to clinical data in hospitals - Alfonso Valencia (BSC)

12:05 The UK use case: Making health data research more accessible - Susheel Varma (HDR UK)

12:10 Genomic data user perspective & wastewater surveillance initiative - Guy Van den Eede (EC-JRC)

12:15 The data challenge for ECDC: monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic and assessing the risk to the EU - Mike Catchpole (ECDC) (ECDC)

12:20 Break

12:30 Panel discussion (Keynote speakers and panellists)
13:15 Break
Break
13:15 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Session Chair - Paulo Quaresma (FCT)

14:05 Introduction by the European Commission: Research data interoperability in the European policy context - Michel Schouppe (EC)

14:10 ELIXIR efforts towards data interoperability in the Life Sciences (RDM efforts, core resources, galaxy workflows, helpdesk for researchers, etc.) - Niklas Blomberg (EOSC-Life)

14:20 EOSC vision and activities towards data interoperability (including the EOSC Interoperability Framework, legal interoperability across Member States and Associated Countries (co-creation study outcome) - Oscar Corcho (EOSC-Association/UPM)

14:30 The Portuguese experience in enabling interoperability frameworks for scientific data - Ana Portugal Melo (Biodata.pt/ELIXIR PT)

14:40 The RDA’s role in the pandemic: The COVID-19 recommendations and guidelines for data sharing and management; the need for community-driven international standards to address interoperability - Ingrid Dillo (RDA)

14:50 GO-FAIR/VODAN data visiting use case: The FAIR data points. Lessons learnt from addressing interoperability of data for data that does not leave its jurisdiction. Harnessing AI - Barend Mons (CODATA and GO-FAIR)

15:00 Break

15:10 Panel discussion (involving the above speakers)
16:00
16:00 - 16:30
Contributions

16:00 Declaration by the PT Presidency on advancing data interoperability at EU and international levels

16:15 Session Chairs - Closing remarks