Health: Data ingestion capacities and data services for the European Genomic Data Infrastructure in the European Health Data Space: data storage and processing capacity

Yes. Targeted stakeholders for this topic are public and private entities such as (but not limited to): public administrations (national, regional and local level), Health Data Access Bodies, hospitals, research institutes, biobanks, research agencies, research infrastructures, European Digital Infrastructure Consortia (EDIC). Targeted stakeholders and participants’ eligibility conditions are detailed in the call documentPDF.

The procurement plan for storage will be defined in the storage optimisation strategy and it can include a single or multiple procurement procedures.

The required consortium composition is minimum 5 independent applicants from 5 different eligible countries. See section on eligibility in the call documentPDF.

Consortium partners are not required to be members of the EDIC.

The action supports the design, purchase and set-up of the storage and processing capacity for the 1+MG data infrastructure. It does not include the operation of that capacity after its set-up.

Costs linked to information security certification of the secure processing environments (SPEs) can be covered in this action as part of the architecture and specifications of SPEs to be established by the project in alignment with EHDS requirements.

Information on the Genomic Data Infrastructure can be found here: gdi.onemilliongenomes.eu

The understanding of “processing capacity” is not limited to pre-processing and storage-related processing. The project can decide to rely on new or existing compute resources to establish the “Secure federated data storage and processing capacity for 1+MG data infrastructure” in line with the “1+MG data storage strategy”.

The technical requirements for the tender procedure will be prepared by the selected project.

The call document specifies that this action builds on the outputs and results of the 1+Million Genomes Initiative implementing projects. A direct collaboration with other ongoing projects is recommended. The results of relevant projects explicitly mentioned in the call must be considered and links with them are to be explained in the proposal.

Yes. This topic is restricted according to Article 12.6 of the Digital Europe Programme. All participants to the consortia need to submit with the proposal an ownership control declarationWord for the assessment by the Commission. Private sector entities registered in the eligible countries which will be deemed non-EU controlled, will be able to participate in the project, if they provide a security guaranteeWord accepted by the relevant national authorities and the Commission. The guarantees are not required at the proposal stage. They will be requested during the grant agreement preparation phase.