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Tryggve project outcomes and Final report
The main results of the project can be summarised to be establishing a Nordic offering of services for sensitive data in biomedical research, and establishing a Nordic network of experts capable of jointly developing secure IT services. The Nordic offering is most visible as the continuous open call for Nordic use cases that the project were able to advertise. The expert network is a significant outcome as it is not a given that enough trust can be built across organisations and countries to be able to share expertise and discuss topics of IT security implementations. Concrete outcomes from the project include the following:
- D1: Finland, Norway and Sweden have successfully deployed and established federated EGA Nordic nodes along with creating the possibilities of deploying the SDA solution as a standalone.
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- D2/D3: Established procedures for data and workflow mobility across the Nordic countries. The use of container technologies have matured, and the establishment of common practices have made them an invaluable tool in several of the D4 use cases. New technological solutions were developed including SAPEIN that in the future will make it possible to exchange information between secure clouds.
- D4: Within the use case program, a total of 24 use cases were supported. Four of these use cases were concluded successfully solving technical issues associated with a scientific aim. Additionally, two infrastructure use cases were concluded as well. Seven use cases did not reach conclusion, but resources have been secured for their continued development.
- D5: Inventory of the federated authentication landscape and specifically helped make REMS compliant with the GA4GH passport standard thereby making it feasible for use in a federated authorization framework (i.e. Elixir AAI). In summary, one can state that most of the objectives of the project were achieved and that significant advance has been made towards offering sensitive data services in Nordic scale. Further proof of the success of the project is that the project partners were willing to continue the collaboration and even agreed to increase investment in it. As a result, two follow up projects has been initiated:
- NeIC PaRI project has started November 2020, directly following the Tryggve2 project.
- Heilsa “Tryggvedottir” project has been approved and is expected to start January of 2021
- Details on the project results are listed in the project final report
Johanna Törnroos wins the best presentation award at Elixir AHM 2020
Johanna Törnroos is the winner of the award for the best presentation at the Impact and Innovation Mini- Symposium during the All Hands Meeting 2020. She presented ‘Impact through Collaboration’ in the Nordics within The Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) — from exchanging knowledge to increasing competencies and research quality. She employed an example from the Tryggve2 Project, where NeIC supports the development of sensitive data management tools used, among others, in assessing the risk of heritable and familial cancers.
More details and a recording of the presentation can be found on Elixir Europe website.
NeIC Tryggve at Elixir All-Hands Meeting 2020
Progress on Establishing the Norwegian Local EGA
Read the latest Tryggve news in June Newsletter.
