euCanSHare ("An EU-Canada joint infrastructure for next-generation multi-Study Heart research") is a Research and Innovation Action funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme. The project aims to create a translational research platform to facilitate cardiovascular data sharing among sixteen leading research centres in the European Union and Canada. Once established, researchers will benefit from a consolidated one-stop, data shop to perform efficient and effective research that results in tailor-made patient treatment and better cardiovascular disease outcomes.

euCanSHare ("An EU-Canada joint infrastructure for next-generation multi-Study Heart research") is a 4-year (2018-2020) Research and Innovation Action funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme (grant agreement No 825903), under the call H2020-SC1-BHC-2018-2020 (“Better Health and care, economic growth and sustainable health systems”). The project is also supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé under the framework of Canada‐EU Commission Flagship Collaboration for Human data storage, integration and sharing.

The project aims to create a translational research platform to facilitate cardiovascular data sharing among sixteen leading research centres in the European Union (EU) and Canada. Once established, researchers will benefit from a consolidated one-stop, data shop to perform efficient and effective research that results in tailor-made patient treatment and better cardiovascular disease outcomes.

The project integrates the most well-established data infrastructures, namely the EGA, Euro-BioImaging and BBMRI-ERIC, to enhance and standardise data deposition, harmonisation and sharing procedures. It integrates more than 35 Canadian and European cohorts making up over 1 million records. These cohorts include -omics (genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, just to name a few) cardiac imaging and clinical data. 

The platform will promote the responsible exchange of data and demonstrate the potential for cardiovascular research in personalised medicine. euCanSHare is committed to reducing the cultural, behavioural and technological barriers to Open Science. This will also allow better policy making as data-driven policies unlock the innovation potential and develop better prevention and treatment methods.