Date: January 21st 2021 - April 29th 2021 (Time may vary for each event)
Webinar series: To provide background and introduce theoretical concepts that might be useful during the practical sessions.
Webinar Registration: Registration will need to be done separately for each webinar. Please refer to the webinar table below.
Hackathon: Practical online event to investigate gaps in the application of FAIR principles and facilitate the implementation of FAIR approaches.
Hackathon dates: April 28th-29th, 2021
Hackathon webpage: https://www.cineca-project.eu/news-events-all/how-fair-are-you-hackathon
Hackathon registration: https://redcap.link/cineca_hackathon2021
Location/Format: Online
Contact: Mamana Mbiyavanga & Marta Lloret Llinares
Overview
CINECA’s vision of a federated cloud enabled infrastructure making population scale genomic and biomolecular data accessible across international borders can only be achieved by building on community standards and adhering to FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable).
The “How FAIR are you” webinar series and hackathon aim at increasing and facilitating the uptake of FAIR approaches into software, training materials and cohort data, to facilitate responsible and ethical data and resource sharing and implementation of federated applications for data analysis.
The hackathon will be a practical online event to investigate gaps in the application of FAIR principles to project outputs and facilitate the implementation of FAIR approaches, where possible. The Hackathon will focus on cohort data, software tools including workflows, algorithms as well as web services, and training materials. The hackathon will be preceded by a “How FAIR are you” webinar series to provide background and introduce theoretical concepts that might be useful during the practical sessions. All participants are encouraged to attend or watch the recordings of the webinar series. The series timetable is below:
| Event theme/title | Speaker | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to FAIR principles - Open science through FAIR health data networks: dream or reality? (Webinar) | Kees van Bochove, The Hyve | Thurs 21st January 2021, 3:00 PM GMT / 4:00 PM CET |
| Making Cohort data FAIR (Webinar) | William Hsiao, Simon Fraser University | Wed 17th February 2021, 4:00 PM GMT / 5:00 PM CET |
| FAIR Software tools (Webinar) | Carlos Martinez, Netherlands eScience | Wed 24th February 2021, 3:00 PM GMT / 4:00 PM CET |
| Practically FAIR (Webinar) | Andrew Stubbs, Erasmus Medical Center | Thurs 4th March 2021, 3:00 PM GMT / 4:00 PM CET |
| How to make training FAIR (Webinar) | Sarah Morgan and Anna Swan | Thurs 18th March 2021, 3:00 PM GMT / 4:00 PM CET |
| Ethics/ELSI considerations - From FAIR to fair data sharing (Webinar) | Melanie Goisauf, BBMRI-ERIC | Thurs 15th April 2021, 3:00 PM GMT / 5:00 PM CEST |
| 2-day Hackathon (Online practical sessions) | Stream facilitators | Wed 28th April 2021 - Thur 29th April 2021 |
Other key dates
Hackathon registration deadline: 31 March 2021
About CINECA
The CINECA (Common Infrastructure for National Cohorts in Europe, Canada, and Africa) project aims to develop a federated cloud enabled infrastructure to make population scale genomic and biomolecular data accessible across international borders, to accelerate research, and improve the health of individuals across continents. CINECA will leverage international investment in human cohort studies from Europe, Canada, and Africa to deliver a paradigm shift of federated research and clinical applications. The CINECA consortium will create one of the largest cross-continental implementations of human genetic and phenotypic data federation and interoperability with a focus on common (complex) disease, one of the world’s most significant health burdens. CINECA has assembled a virtual cohort of 1.4M individuals from population, longitudinal and disease studies. Federated analyses will deliver new scientific knowledge, harmonisation strategies and the necessary ELSI framework supporting data exchange across legal jurisdictions enabling federated analyses in the cloud. CINECA will provide a template to achieve virtual longitudinal and disease specific cohorts of millions of samples, to advance benefits to patients. It will leverage partner membership of standards and infrastructures like the Global Alliance for Global Health, BBMRI, ELIXIR, and EOSC driving the state of the art in standards development, technical implementation and FAIR data.