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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.

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Founding Partners

The founding partners of LIFES 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. 

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Vision &
Mission

  • Vision: Global, FAIR and Equitable Science and Innovation as the new normal

  • 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. 

Data remains
at the source

Data is made
machine readable

Data is made
machine visitable

Data is
reused