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ELIXIR Switzerland hosting the FHD Community Day

By Clara Roujeau, 8 September, 2025

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics will be happy to host the 2025 ELIXIR Federated Human Data (FHD) Community Day, as a joint event with the Human Data and Translational Research (HDTR) project meetings on 10-11 November 2025. This meeting is planned as a hybrid meeting, with the F2F component in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The meeting will include presentations, open discussions, break-out sessions and participant engagement with topics covering the FHD Community’s status including:

Switzerland joins the FEGA network

By Clara Roujeau, 11 August, 2025

Following the successful demonstration of secure infrastructure for storing and sharing sensitive patient data, Switzerland has now officially joined the Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEGA) network – a growing international community that provides federated access to genomics resources for research.

Successful FEGA workshop at ELIXIR AHM 2025

By Clara Roujeau, 11 June, 2025

Last week, Owen Appleton and Mark Ibberson from the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics coordinating the Swiss FEGA project were delighted to attend the 2025 ELIXIR All Hands Meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece, where they co-led the workshop entitled "A Community of Practice for FEGA node expansion: Experiences, resources, support and future models".

ELIXIR Staff Exchange Workshop in Prague

By Clara Roujeau, 14 May, 2025

Part of the Swiss FEGA team is back from Prague after a 2-day productive workshop with the Czech team in charge of setting up a federated EGA node in the Czech Republic.

FEGA (hybrid) workshop at ELIXIR AHM 2025

By Clara Roujeau, 31 March, 2025

The Swiss FEGA Coordination Team will be happy to chair a workshop at the next ELIXIR All Hands Meeting, taking place from 2–5 June 2025 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

ELIXIR Switzerland hosting the FHD Community Day

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics will be happy to host the 2025 ELIXIR Federated Hum

Switzerland joins the FEGA network

Following the successful demonstration of secure infrastructure for storing and sharing sensitive

Successful FEGA workshop at ELIXIR AHM 2025

Last week, Owen Appleton and Mark Ibberson from the