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EU funding (€6,043,000): FORTIFY - FRAMEWORK FOR OPTIMIZED REGULATION, TRADE SECRETS, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN A FEDERATED EUROPEAN HEALTH DATA SPACE Hor1 May 2026 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"

Overview

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FORTIFY - FRAMEWORK FOR OPTIMIZED REGULATION, TRADE SECRETS, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN A FEDERATED EUROPEAN HEALTH DATA SPACE

The European Health Data Space (EHDS) promises to unlock unprecedented opportunities for data-driven healthcare innovation by enabling the secure reuse of health data across Europe. However, realizing this vision requires robust safeguards to build trust among all stakeholders, protect privacy, and preserve the rights of data holders. FORTIFY directly addresses this challenge by delivering a comprehensive FORTIFY Framework that seamlessly integrates legal, technical, and governance measures to safeguard innovation while promoting data access. Key components of the FORTIFY Framework include clear legal, technical and governance guidelines to protect intellectual property rights, standardized template contracts for transparent and consistent data access agreements, digital data processing technologies for robust IP protection and traceability, and quantitative utility benchmarks for managing IP utility. The project actively engages a broad range of stakeholders—including health data holders, health data access bodies, health data users, patients, industry, and policymakers—in co-designing these solutions through an established Multistakeholder Forum, ensuring diverse needs are met and fostering a culture of trust, collaboration, and continuous feedback. Validation of the FORTIFY Framework will be carried out through ten real-world use cases, simulating the EHDS user journey, workflows, and ensuring practical applicability and effectiveness across diverse data sharing settings.


Funded Companies:

Company name Funding amount
Abbvie Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG ?
Abbvie Inc. €0.00
Agence des Donnees de (Soins de) Sante €181,250
Agencia de Qualitat i Avaluacio Sanitaries de Catalunya €181,250
Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita Di Bologna €512,625
Astrazeneca UK Ltd. €0.00
Bayer AG €0.00
Biomerieux SA €0.00
Boehringer Ingelheim Internationalgesellschaft mbH €0.00
Charite - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin €400,000
Clarivate Analytics (UK) Ltd. €0.00
Fundacion para La Investigacion del Hospital Universitario La Fe de La Comunidad Valenciana €147,500
Glaxosmithkline Research & Development Ltd. €0.00
Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine €330,000
Irccs Azienda Ospedaliero- Universitaria Di Bologna €97,500
Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli €97,500
Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V. €0.00
Karolinska Institutet €1,396,313
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven €579,063
Merck KGaA €0.00
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp €0.00
Novartis Pharma AG €0.00
Novo Nordisk A/S €0.00
Patvocates GmbH €166,250
Pfizer Inc. €0.00
Plateforme des Donnees de Sante €102,500
Resmed Sensor Technologies Ltd. €0.00
Sanofi Winthrop Industrie €0.00
Teamit Research SL €581,250
Timelex €317,250
UCB Biopharma €0.00
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia €155,250
University OF Ottawa €668,750
Vaccine Monitoring Collaboration for Europe €128,750

Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101251225

The filing refers to a past date, and does not necessarily reflect the current state. The latest known state is available on the following page: AbbVie Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Wiesbaden, Germany.