Canada – European Commission Joint Data Flagship 

Backgrounder: Canada – European Commission Joint Data Flagship

The volume and complexity of digital health information available to researchers is increasing every day. This means the need for effective and efficient systems to manage data becomes more and more important. Existing repositories were generally developed independently, without shared, compatible data standards. Recognizing the expertise of researchers in Canada and the European Union who have experience building and administering data repositories to support biomedical research, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Fonds de recherche du Quebec Santé—(FRQS) and the Europrean Commission (EC) are proud to jointly support the development of a collaboration of stakeholders in Europe and Canada in the domain of storing, coordinating, integrating and sharing of human data.