EOSC-Life WP14: COVID-19 Repository Data Sharing Policy

EOSC-Life is a 4-year project funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme. It aims to bring together the 13 Research Infrastructures in the Health and Food domain of the ESFRI Roadmap to create an open, collaborative digital space for life sciences in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). In March 2020, after the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and as a rapid response to it EOSC-Life added to its work plan two new work packages to help tackle the pandemic. In EOSC-Life WP14, the European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (ECRIN, https://ecrin.org/) has partnered with the University of Oslo (UiO, https://www.uio.no/english/) in order to commonly design, develop, implement and operate a repository for individual participant data (IPD) from COVID-19 clinical research studies that is compliant with European regulations and in particular with the GDPR. For the storage of the IPD, the TSD infrastructure of the University of Oslo will be used, which is a multitenant remote access system with a strong set of built-in security measures. 

The present document highlights the Data Sharing Policy of the COVID-19 repository under development in EOSC-Life WP14. A model Data Transfer Agreement for further discussions with Data Object Providers can also be made available on request (contact maria.panagiotopoulou@ecrin.org).