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euCanSHare

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euCanSHare is a joint EU-Canada project to establish a cross-border data sharing and multi-cohort cardiovascular research platform. Specifically, the project will integrate data infrastructures, IT solutions and data sources from EU, Canada and other countries into a web-based data access system with functionalities for increased efficiency in cardiovascular data-driven research. euCanSHare integrates more than 35 Canadian and European cohorts making up over 1 million records and actively seeks to expand to other regions. euCanSHare key objectives are: data sharing, knowledge discovery, legal compliance, and community building
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Members

Investigators Contacts
  • Dr. Katharina F Heil
    Universitat de Barcelona
  • Dr. Karim Lekadir
    Universitat de Barcelona

General Information

Year created
2020
Types of cohorts
  • Population cohort
  • Patient/disease cohort
Countries
  • Germany
  • United Kingdom
  • Finland
  • Estonia
  • Denmark
  • Italy
  • Spain
  • Lithuania
  • Australia
  • Sweden
  • Russian
  • Poland
  • France
  • Norway
  • Canada
Region
Europe; Canada; Australia
Setting
International
Funding
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 825903. All Canadian project partners have been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé
Criteria of cohort's to be included
The project brings together 35 cardiovascular cohorts from EU, Canada* and beyond, including sociodemographic data, biosamples, omics data (DNA/RNA/proteins), cardiac imaging, lifestyle, environmental data, physical measurements and clinical outcomes.
Socio-environmental context
  • NA

Participants

Number of participants

Total
1,000,000

Methodology for harmonization and integration

Strategy of harmonization
Ex-post
Data processing methods
  • Algorithmic
  • Standardisation
  • Latent variable model
  • Others
    • Type of infrastructure
    Some centrally, other locally
    Integrative data analysis
    • Meta-analyses
    • Pooled analyses
    Software
  • OBiBa (Opal/Mica)
  • DataSHIELD
  • Molgenis
    • Supplementary information

    Number of cohorts

    Total
    32
    Will more cohorts be harmonized?

    Access

    Availability of metadata
    Availability of individual data
    Under request