ELIXIR FHD Community day and HDTR project meeting

The 2025 ELIXIR Federated Human Data (FHD) Community face-to-face meeting will be held jointly with the Human Data and Translational Research (HDTR) project meetings, including parallel WP workshops. The meeting will include presentations, open discussions, breakout sessions and participant engagement on topics including:

• Updates and expansion of FEGA Nodes
• Developments of the FEGA metadata model
• Federated learning for sensitive data
• Alignment of FHD with other EU initiatives (e.g. GDI, 1+MG, EHDS, GoE)
• Progress of HDTR projects from the current ELIXIR CoS funding cycle (2024–2026)
• FHD Community engagement in the upcoming funding cycle and the next ELIXIR HDTR Scientific Programme

Participation will be limited for in-person attendees, while virtual attendance will remain open to all. Selected invited participants will receive funding to attend. Further details on funding and reimbursement will be shared after registration. Please do not book travel until you have received confirmation.

Travel

Confirmed in-person participants are responsible for booking their own travel and accommodation. Invited attendees will receive reimbursement information after successful registration.

Venue

SIB | Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Address: Quartier Sorge, bâtiment Amphipôle - CH 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland (Google Maps)

The venue is located in the walking distance from the metro M1 station "UNIL Sorge". Please refer to the image below for more information.

Meeting rooms: (you can also look for them using the interactive UNIL campus map):

• MAX 414: main meeting room + breakout room for FAIR-FEGA 
• POL 342: breakout room for FHD Community Day + FHDportal
• POL 338: breakout room for FHD Community Day
• POL 318: breakout room for FHD Community Day + Galaxy
• POL 340: breakout room for FHD Community Day + FEGA-Connect

For the FHD / HDTR event, the meeting rooms are shown in the map below: you can follow the red arrows from the metro M1 station "UNIL Sorge".

The Interoperability workshop will be held in the Perl room of the SIB premises, see the blue arrows in the map below.

Recommended accommodation (please consider the reimbursement rules)

List of suggested hotels with indicative rates for one night (10-11 Nov 2025) in a single room:

• SwissTech Hotel at CHF 99.00
• Zleep Hotel at CHF 119.00
• Elite Hotel at CHF 129.00
• Hotel des Voyageurs at CHF 170
• Continental Hotel at CHF 216.00

Contacts: Mark Ibberson (mark.ibberson@sib.swiss), Clara Roujeau (clara.roujeau@sib.swiss), Muriel Métrailler (muriel.metrailler@sib.swiss), Magda Chegkazi (magda.chegkazi@elixir-europe.org)

Please follow the Final Programme for more detailed information as registration has now closed.