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Initiative overview
Heilsa Tryggvedottir is a Nordic project, funded through the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) with participation by partner nodes, which builds on prior work under the NeIC Tryggve and Tryggve2 projects. Its purpose is to enable secure cross-border sharing and analysis of sensitive human data—such as combined genomic and phenotypic (phenomics) datasets—in order to drive discovery, strengthen public health, and improve healthcare outcomes.
The project has several core objectives:
To transform the prototype or experimental tools developed in earlier Tryggve phases into production-ready, interoperable services.
To support federated data services across Nordic countries so that researchers with appropriate authorization can access or combine data hosted in different countries without moving sensitive raw data in insecure ways.
To incorporate key infrastructure pieces such as sensitive data archives, synthetic data generation, and imputation services, along with federated authentication/authorization (e.g. using ELIXIR AAI) to ensure data is managed responsibly.
Heilsa Tryggvedottir is carried out by ELIXIR node partners in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia, under the larger umbrella of NeIC. The project works closely with existing national sensitive data services and archives, and with European infrastructure efforts such as the Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEGA), combining legal, ethical, technical, and operational expertise.
