LIFES
The Leiden Institute for FAIR and Equitable Science (LIFES) is a public-private partnership where FAIR data and services are the norm. LIFES will develop and maintain the required expertise and ecosystem for the equitable and privacy preserving reuse of data and services.
The founding partners of LIFES are the GO FAIR Foundation, CCC (Copyright Clearance Center), FAIRscholar, HINQ, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden University / Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR), Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Roche Nederland B.V., Sage, TNO and the University of Twente (UT). They represent an international public-private partnership of forward-thinking academic and private organisations that have joined forces to address the challenges of global data reuse.
Vision &
Mission
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Vision: Global, FAIR and Equitable Science and Innovation as the new normal
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Mission: Facilitate FAIR based, privacy preserving, and distributed data generation as well as equitable reuse
Establishing a FAIR-data Ecosystem
LIFES will facilitate an ecosystem where FAIR data generation, privacy preserving data stewardship, and equitable reuse of information are the norm. A radically distributed approach, where data is visited and queried at the source, will be an essential characteristic of this ecosystem. LIFES will serve as a catalyst for removing unnecessary barriers to equitable data visiting for legitimate research questions that meet legal, ethical and consent requirements.