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

Monday Jun 7, 2021, 10:30 AM → 4:30 PM Europe/Brussels

LNEC

10:30 AM → 11:15 AM Session 1: Sharing is caring: first anniversary of the European COVID-19 Data Platform

Sharing is caring: first anniversary of the European COVID-19 Data Platform

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

1. Video - Session 1 - 2105 GW - PStM - Riding the next wave - inkl. UT.mp4

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

11:15 AM → 1:15 PM Session 2: Scientific data exchange in public health emergencies: what we learned from the COVID-19 outbreak

Scientific data exchange in public health emergencies: what we learned from the COVID-19 outbreak.

11:15 AM Session Chair

Speaker: André Peralta-Santos (DGS)

11:20 AM Data exchange for pandemic preparedness and management in the Union

Speaker: 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

Speakers: Kostas Glinos (EC), Rolf Apweiler (EMBL-EBI)

European COVID-19 Data Platform - Rolf Apweiler.pdf

Kostas Glinos - COVID-19 PT Event 070621.pdf

11:45 AM Q&A

11:50 AM Towards a Portuguese COVID-19 data portal

Speakers: Mário Silva (Biodata.pt/ELIXIR PT), Patrícia Calado (AICIB)

Session 2 - Patrícia Calado - Apresentação - Covid-19 Data Portal Portugal_070621_v1.pdf

11:55 AM The Swedish COVID-19 data portal: From leveraging infrastructure investment to brokering Public Health submission

Speaker: Johan Rung (Uppsala University)

Session 2 - Swedish COVID-19 Data Portal - Johan Rung.pdf

12:00 PM The Spanish COVID-19 data portal: connecting to clinical data in hospitals

Speaker: Alfonso Valencia (BSC)

Session 2 - Spanish COVID.19 Portal Alfonso Valencia.pdf

12:05 PM The UK use case: Making health data research more accessible

Speaker: Susheel Varma (HDR UK)

Session 2 - HDR UK - Susheel Varma.pdf

12:10 PM Genomic data user perspective & wastewater surveillance initiative

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Mike Catchpole (ECDC) (ECDC)

12:20 PM Break

12:30 PM Panel discussion (Keynote speakers and panellists)

1:15 PM → 2:00 PM Break

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM Session 3: Challenges towards a more inclusive interoperability framework for scientific data

2:00 PM Session Chair

Speaker: Paulo Quaresma (FCT)

2:05 PM Introduction by the European Commission: Research data interoperability in the European policy context

Speaker: 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.)

Speaker: 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)

Speaker: Oscar Corcho (EOSC-Association/UPM)

Session 3 - Oscar Corcho - EOSC-InteroperabilityFramework.pdf

2:30 PM The Portuguese experience in enabling interoperability frameworks for scientific data

Speaker: Ana Portugal Melo (Biodata.pt/ELIXIR PT)

Session 3 - Ana Melo - Interoperability ELIXIR PT.pdf

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

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Barend Mons (CODATA and GO-FAIR)

3:00 PM Break

3:10 PM Panel discussion (involving the above speakers)

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Conclusions

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

4:15 PM Session Chairs - Closing remarks