TA4 “Community & Networking”

With its focus on interaction, networking and exchange, TA4 addresses the overall NFDI4Health Key Objective (5), i.e. to support cooperation between clinical research, epidemiological and public health communities. TA4 also contributes to Key Objectives (3) and (4) in that it provides training and education for the health research community and beyond, focusing on FAIR data principles.

Designing NFDI4Health services to the needs of the users is central for the whole initiative. All (co-)applicants are in close contact with users, and all our TAs explicitly connect with the scientific community by involving it in the development and implementation of their services. The strong focus on systematic involvement of the user community supports the consortium on its way to a successful service.

Four measures are devoted to the involvement of the user community, namely “Outreach and dissemination” (T4.1), “Data sharing” (T4.2), “Training and education” (T4.3) as well as “User research” (T4.6). TA4 is engaged with two further groups: (a) with the entire interdisciplinary NFDI-community (T4.4), and (b) with citizens and patients, whose continuous active participation (T4.5) is essential in order to increase the public acceptance of sharing sensitive personal data for health research, to improve the understanding of the benefits of data reuse and to enforce the trust into the secure handling of these data.