The CINECA consortium was formed in response to the EU call ‘Better Health and care, economic growth and sustainable health systems’ (H2020-SC1-BHC-2018-2020) with a proposal for an international collaboration with Canada and Africa for a federated cloud enabled infrastructure making population scale genomic and biomolecular data accessible across international borders. The CINECA consortium will create one of the largest cross-continental implementations of human genetic and phenotypic data federation and interoperability with a focus on common (complex) disease, one of the world’s most significant health burdens.

The CINECA Kick off meeting was held on January 24th-25th 2019 at the Wellcome Genome Campus Conference Centre, Hinxton UK. The key objective of the meeting was to bring together consortium members to facilitate discussion on the project’s goals and action plan. The report focuses on an overview of the Work Packages as presented to the consortium (focusing on deliverables due in the first reporting period), the cohorts included in the project, and the decisions made by the Executive Board for actions to implement in year 1 of the project.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3908145

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