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, June 7, 2021 - 10:30 AM

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

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

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

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

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

11:05 AM Speech by Edith Heard, Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
11:15 AM
11:15 AM - 1:15 PM
Contributions

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

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

11:30 AM 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 AM Q&A

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:20 PM Break

12:30 PM Panel discussion (Keynote speakers and panellists)
1:15 PM Break
Break
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Session Chair - Paulo Quaresma (FCT)

2:05 PM Introduction by the European Commission: Research data interoperability in the European policy context - Michel Schouppe (EC)

2:10 PM ELIXIR efforts towards data interoperability in the Life Sciences (RDM efforts, core resources, galaxy workflows, helpdesk for researchers, etc.) - Niklas Blomberg (EOSC-Life)

2:20 PM 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)

2:30 PM The Portuguese experience in enabling interoperability frameworks for scientific data - Ana Portugal Melo (Biodata.pt/ELIXIR PT)

2:40 PM 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)

2:50 PM 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)

3:00 PM Break

3:10 PM Panel discussion (involving the above speakers)
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Declaration by the PT Presidency on advancing data interoperability at EU and international levels

4:15 PM Session Chairs - Closing remarks