News & events

BY-COVID Event
Event | 23 January 2024

BY-COVID Training - Data sharing and reuse under GDPR

Empower data users and producers to become confident in how to submit or use sensitive data, express their questions and issues to professionals in their institutions, and find solutions for their sensitive data issues.

BY-COVID Event
Event | 6 December 2023

Open science for pandemic preparedness

The BY-COVID project is hosting a high-level event entitled ‘Open science for pandemic preparedness’ to highlight and discuss the value of open data and tools in addressing the COVID pandemic and future pandemics.

BY-COVID Event
Event | 17 October 2023

Research Data Management Training - Preparing to manage your data across disciplines

Research data management (RDM) ensures that your data is complete, documented, and accessible to you and to future researchers.

BY-COVID Event
Event | 9 October 2023

BY-COVID Second General Assembly

All BY-COVID consortium members are invited to the second Annual General Assembly in Barcelona.

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News | 1 September 2023

BY-COVID signs collaboration agreement with the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science

BY-COVID’s global reach is set to be expanded through a collaboration with the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS).

BY-COVID News
News | 25 August 2023

Building links in cross-disciplinary social science research in Belgium and the Netherlands

In April 2023, representatives from 13 Dutch and Belgian organisations, both internal and external to the BY-COVID project, gathered in The Hague to discuss how social sciences and humanities (SSH) data can contribute to research on vaccine effectiveness and pandemic preparedness.

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News | 13 July 2023

Toolkit showcases data solutions for pandemic preparedness

The Infectious Diseases Toolkit (IDTk) is a community-driven resource developed as part of the BY-COVID project.

BY-COVID News
News | 22 June 2023

The FAIRsharing BY-COVID Collection of data sources

The COVID-19 Data Portal makes it possible for researchers to access and integrate a broad range of COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 data.

BY-COVID Event
Event | 21 June 2023

BY-COVID 4th Consortium Meeting

On 21 & 22 June, the 53-partner consortium will meet online to discuss progress and plan ahead

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News | 13 June 2023

Support for the implementation of SARS-CoV-2 data hubs at national and regional levels

The BY-COVID project has an open call for proposals to support the implementation of additional SARS-CoV-2 data hubs.

BY-COVID Event
Event | 22 May 2023

GTN Smörgåsbord training event

This free training will be offered online and asynchronously (at-your-own-pace) across all time zones. The course will be a combination of lectures and hands-on training sessions with Galaxy.

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News | 16 May 2023

BY-COVID Policy Brief: Open data to support European pandemic preparedness

The BY-COVID project has published a policy brief summarising learnings and policy recommendations to support pandemic preparedness.

BY-COVID Event
Event | 13 March 2023

Infectious Diseases Toolkit (IDTk) Contentathon

The goal of the event is to gather content that will help enhance infectious diseases outbreak preparedness.

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News | 22 February 2023

Citizen engagement material on FAIR data released

The BY-COVID project has released citizen engagement material, in English and French. The material explains the role of good data infrastructures and open science in effective pandemic responses, and more broadly in the study of infectious diseases.

BY-COVID Event
Event | 14 February 2023

Unlocking the Power of Metadata

Event recording available. Join us for a short, hands-on workshop where you will discover the importance and benefits of metadata.

BY-COVID Event
Event | 8 February 2023

Hackathon for making data discoverable through the COVID-19 Data Portal

In this Hackathon participants will learn how to provide a metadata file for making content of a data resource discoverable through the COVID-19 Data Portal.

BY-COVID Event
Event | 24 January 2023

BY-COVID industry event- Data driven innovation in infectious diseases

Better data management for better pandemic preparedness, disease surveillance and outbreak control

BY-COVID Event
Event | 25 November 2022

National-level experiences of pathogen-related data sharing in pandemic times and beyond

All are welcome to an open meeting to exchange national experiences on data sharing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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News | 23 November 2022

Release of indexing system to link COVID-19 data across research disciplines

The BY-COVID project has implemented a scalable indexing system to link data and metadata on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, along with and other infectious diseases and pathogens, across multiple areas of research.

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News | 21 November 2022

VEO report on mutations and variation in publicly shared SARS-CoV-2 raw sequencing data

VEO submits the 14th report on mutations and variation in publicly shared SARS-CoV-2 raw sequencing data.

BY-COVID News
News | 19 October 2022

BY-COVID industry sector mapping report

The report summarises resources available through BY-COVID, provides an overview of potential commercial partners and highlights a successful public-private partnership.

BY-COVID Event
Event | 4 October 2022

BY-COVID Annual General Assembly and consortium meeting – Year 1

All BY-COVID consortium members are invited to the first Annual General Assembly in Brussels and online.

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News | 29 September 2022

VEO report on mutations and variation in publicly shared SARS-CoV-2 raw sequencing data

VEO submits the 13th report on mutations and variation in publicly shared SARS-CoV-2 raw sequencing data.

ISIDORe calls for proposals
News | 27 July 2022

ISIDORe calls for proposals

ISIDORe has open calls to support research by providing free access to their services and facilities to study infectious diseases in Europe.

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News | 21 July 2022

VEO report on mutations and variation in publicly shared SARS-CoV-2 raw sequencing data.

The VEO has published its 12th report on the SARS-Cov-2 sequence data submitted to the European COVID-19 Data Portal.

BY-COVID Event
Event | 23 June 2022

National-level experiences of pathogen-related data sharing in pandemic times and beyond

All are welcome to an open meeting to exchange national experiences on data sharing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

BY-COVID Event
News | 20 June 2022

Repurposing COVID-19 pipelines for the monkeypox virus

One aim of the BY-COVID project is to build a framework enabling data from newly emerging infectious disease threats to be made rapidly and widely accessible.

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News | 14 April 2022

VEO report on mutations and variation in publicly shared SARS-CoV-2 raw sequencing data.

In its eleventh report to the European Commission, VEO Consortium members summarize mobilisation and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 sequence data submitted to the European COVID-19 Data Platform in the context of the VEO project, which aims to develop tools and data analytics for pandemic and outbreak preparedness.

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News | 9 March 2022

BY-COVID and ISIDORe projects work to prepare Europe for outbreaks of infectious diseases

BY-COVID is part of a new three-year, European Commission funded project called Integrated Services for Infectious Diseases Outbreak Research (ISIDORe), which brings together 155 project partners from 32 countries. ISIDORe was officially launched on 24 February 2022 with a kick-off meeting attended by BY-COVID representatives.

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News | 15 December 2021

VEO submits the tenth report on mutations and variation in publicly shared SARS-CoV-2 raw sequencing data.

In its tenth report to the European Commission, VEO Consortium members summarize mobilisation and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 sequence data submitted to the European COVID-19 Data Platform in the context of the VEO project, which aims to develop tools and data analytics for pandemic and outbreak preparedness.

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News | 8 December 2021

Galaxy Europe provide a simple and free method for analysing SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant data

Computer scientists and developers from BY-COVID involved in Galaxy Europe have published new data and analysis methods on the new SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern, Omicron.

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News | 24 November 2021

BY-COVID featured in the press at GenomeWeb

The BY-COVID project has been featured in an article on GenomeWeb, an online news organisation that promotes the scientific and economic ecosystem spurred by the advent of high-throughput genome sequencing.

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News | 18 November 2021

VEO submits the ninth report on mutations and variation in publicly shared SARS-CoV-2 data

The Versatile Emerging infectious disease Observatory (VEO) has published its ninth report on SARS-Cov-2 sequence data submitted to the European COVID-19 Data Portal.

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News | 13 October 2021

BY-COVID - a new EU project for pandemic preparedness

The BeYond-COVID (BY-COVID) project launches today. It aims to make SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious disease data easier to find and share.

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News | 12 October 2021

VEO submits the eighth report on mutations and variation in publicly shared SARS-CoV-2 data

The Versatile Emerging infectious disease Observatory (VEO) has published its eighth report on mutations and variation in publicly shared SARS-CoV-2 raw sequencing data.