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This Policy Brief presents preliminary results from the BY-COVID project as part of its comprehensive, sustainable and evidence-informed plan to effectively promote and improve FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) and open data sharing in support for European preparedness for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. The Brief also places the project and its results in the context of the upcoming EOSC Partnership, the development of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) and the European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA).Policy paper in brief Authors: Niklas Blomberg (ELIXIR) ORCID: 0000-0003-4155-5910, Marieke Willems (ELIXIR) ORCID: 0000-0001-9664-6225, Corinne S. Martin (ELIXIR) ORCID: 0000-0002-5428-2766, Andy Smith (ELIXIR) ORCID: 0000-0002-6025-9271, Elaine Harrison (ELIXIR) ORCID: 0000-0003-1149-2242, Carazo, Jose-Maria (CNB-CSIC) ORCID: 0000-0003-0788-8447, Enrique Bernal-Delgado (IACS) ORCID: 0000-0002-0961-3298, Iris van Dam (ScienSano) ORCID: 0000-0002-3965-6184, Romain David (ERINHA) ORCID: 0000-0003-4073-7456, Patricia M. Palagi (SIB) ORCID: 0000-0001-9062-6303, Martina Draščić Capar (CESSDA) ORCID: 0000-0001-8848-3008; As seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, and other infectious disease outbreaks, researchers, health care professionals and "citizens (in terms of consent to share)" need to store, document, share, access, analyse, link and process research and clinical data across disciplines and national borders in a coordinated response. Like other infectious disease outbreaks, such as haemorrhagic fevers (e.g. cholera), COVID-19 will remain a societal challenge beyond the immediate outbreak, considering its destructive and disruptive impact on healthcare systems and the global economy. In addition to SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen at the source of COVID-19, the risk from other emerging pathogens also persists, which will require similar concerted action to identify and characterise infections with pandemic potential, and enable rapid public health action to mitigate health and societal impacts. Provision of comprehensive open data on infectious agents and related diseases during outbreaks supports evidence-based decision-making across scientific, medical, public health and policy domains and promotes reproducibility of research outcomes. European readiness for future pandemics is of utmost importance, and whilst preparedness for such eventualities requires provisions for e.g. rapid vaccine production and public procurement for personal protective equipment - far outside the scope of BY-COVID - the ‘open data’ aspects is a key component that should be addressed to ensure the preparedness of infrastructure as part of existing frameworks such as the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Contributing to enhance data sharing and utility for streamlined local to global public health decision-making and action, as defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a key objective in the Global genomic surveillance strategy. In pandemic times, the mobilisation of raw viral sequences and the identification and monitoring the spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants is particularly important. The BeYond-COVID (BY-COVID) project was funded by the European Union under the call “FAIR and open data sharing in support to European preparedness for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases” (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EMERGENCY-01) and will run until 2024, to make COVID-19 data accessible to research scientists and others such as medical staff in hospitals or government officials. The world has generated vast amounts of data in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and is still generating more. This data comes from many different sources, and identifying, connecting and integrating it for effective analysis is challenging on many fronts.

https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/442241-unleashing-the-research-potential-of-high-containment-animal-facilities; The current pandemic has confirmed what scientists have long known. Accelerating the pace of research and knowledge acquisition on high-risk pathogens – highly infectious, highly pathogenic or both – is fundamental to our security. Uncontrolled infectious disease outbreaks have a global impact on lives, livelihoods, economies and healthcare systems.Understanding the workings of these pathogens is critical to prevention and containment of disease spread. However, exactly because these pathogens are high risk, they must be studied in specialised high-containment facilities, of which there are a relatively limited number globally. The EU-funded VetBioNet project has established a multidisciplinary network to reinforce cooperation among Europe’s leading high-containment animal facilities, enhance technical capacities and services and offer free-of-charge access.

Interview sur la chaîne France 3 Grand Est dans l'émission "L'avant JT" sur la stratégie de communication des marques pendant la crise sanitaire liée au Covid-19.

Contribution à un site web; During the successive lockdowns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, 80% of students around the world had to continue their courses online. However, videoconferencing while managing a continuous flow of emails can be exhausting and remote working can be difficult to cope with. A group of researchers, mainly from the Innovation, Technology, Economics & Management Laboratory (LITEM – Univ. Paris-Saclay, Univ. d’Évry, IMT-BS), followed a group of students at Université Paris-Saclay during the first lockdown in Spring 2020. Although some students managed to make the change well, many talked of ‘zoom burnout’ and of no longer being able to face being in front of their screens all day. In fact, whether an individual makes a successful transition to remote learning depends on an element which is often ignored - namely the ability to keep an open mind. [...]

The COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the shift to contactless transactions and the “cashless society” model is fueling market innovations, not to mention social discord and the introduction of a “right of access to cash.”; The COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the shift to contactless transactions and the “cashless society” model is fueling market innovations, not to mention social discord and the introduction of a “right of access to cash.”

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