#Coronavirus: la Comissió llança una plataforma per compartir dades per a investigadors

Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Commissioner Mariya Gabriel said: “Launching the European COVID-19 Data Platform is an important concrete measure for stronger cooperation in fighting the coronavirus. Building on our dedicated support for open science and open access over the years, now is the time to step up our efforts and stand united with our researchers. Through our joint efforts, we will better understand, diagnose and eventually overpower the pandemic.”

The new platform will provide an open, trusted, and scalable European and global environment where researchers can store and share datasets, such as DNA sequences, protein structures, data from pre-clinical research and clinical trials, as well as epidemiological data. It is the result of a joint effort by the European Commission, the European Bioinformatics Institute of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI), La Elixir infraestructures i Projecte COMPARE, as well as the EU member states and other partners.

Rapid open sharing of data greatly accelerates research and discovery, allowing for an effective response to the coronavirus emergency. The European COVID-19 Data Platform is in line with the principles established in the Declaració sobre compartició de dades en emergències de salut pública i accentuates the Commission's commitment to open research data and Ciència Oberta, which aims at making science more efficient, reliable, and responsive to societal challenges. In this context, the platform is also a priority pilot, aimed at realizing the objectives of the Núvol Europea de la Ciència Oberta (EOSC), i es basa en xarxes establertes entre EMBL-EBI i infraestructures nacionals de dades de salut pública.  

Pla d’acció ERAvsCorona

On 7 April 2020, research and innovation ministers from all 27 EU member states supported 10 priority actions of the Pla d’acció ERAvsCorona. Building on the overall objectives and the tools of the Espai Europeu de Recerca (ERA), the Action Plan covers short-term actions based on close coordination, cooperation, data sharing and joint funding efforts between the Commission and the Member States. It is centred around the key principles of the European Research Area, which will now be used to achieve towards their maximum effect to help researchers and EU Member States succeed in their fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

In addition to the European COVID-19 Data Platform launched today, the other actions focus on coordinating of funding, extending large EU-wide clinical trials, increasing support to innovative companies and supporting a pan-European Hackathon in the end of April to mobilise European innovators and the civil society. The joint plan listing priority actions will be regularly updated in a co-creative manner between the Commission services and national governments in the coming months.  

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The EU is taking strong action to fight the pandemic. The Commission is also committing hundreds of millions of euros in mesures de recerca i innovació per desenvolupar vacunes, nous tractaments, proves diagnòstiques i sistemes mèdics per prevenir la propagació del coronavirus.

Building on long-term investments made before the coronavirus outbreak (through FP7 & Horizon 2020), including on surveillance and preparedness, the EU has rapidly mobilized €48.2 million for 18 shortlisted research projects that are now working on rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests, new treatments, new vaccines as well as on epidemiology and modelling to improve preparedness and response to outbreaks. The projects involve 151 research teams from around the world.

In addition, the EU has mobilized public and private funding of up to €90m through the Iniciativa sobre medicaments innovadors, and offered up to €80m of financial support to the innovative company CureVac to scale up development and production of a vaccine against the coronavirus.

A més, una recent European Innovation Council Accelerator call of €164m has attracted a significant number of start-ups and SMEs with innovations that could also help tackle the pandemic. At the same time oveure 50 ongoing or completed European Research Council projects are contributing to the response to the coronavirus pandemic by providing insights from several different scientific fields (virology, epidemiology, immunology, public health, medical devices, social behaviour, crisis management).

To strengthen global cooperation, the EU is coordinating international initiatives under the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Diseases Preparedness (GloPID-R), which brings together 29 funding bodies from 5 continents and the WHO. It is also contributing €20m to the Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI). Finally, the Els països europeus i en desenvolupament sobre assaigs clínics (EDCTP) is funding three calls of up to €28m from Horizon 2020 to support research on the coronavirus and strengthen research capacities in sub-Saharan Africa.

Més informació

Plataforma de dades europea COVID-19

Pla d’acció ERAvsCorona

Lloc web EUvsVirus Hackathon

Coronavirus Research and Innovation initiatives

Press release: Coronavirus: EU global response to fight the pandemic

COVID response Seal of Excellence