This project aims to set-up a clinical registry for the European Reference Network (ERN) on Rare Adult Cancers (EURACAN) which is focusing on 10 out of the 12 families of rare cancers, each corresponding to a EURACAN “domain”.
This project will:
1. Develop the IT infrastructure of the Registry exploiting tools defined by the European Rare Disease Registry Infrastructure. The IT will be interoperable with other rare disease registries and compliant with the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) principles.
2. Identify the core data set for each of the EURACAN domain. The core data set will include data on patient characteristics, exposure (disease, devices, procedures, treatments etc.) and outcomes. Standard terminology will be used to ensure the “semantic” interoperability.
3. Address ethical, legal and privacy issue to ensure the data collection establishing a legal structure to ensure legal agreements between all partners involved (related to use of data, IP, confidentiality, etc.).
4. Define the Registry governance to clarify the rules and procedures to access and manage the Registry.
5. Develop the sustainability strategy to secure future funding for data acquisition and management at the end of this project.
Different stakeholders including EURACAN members; rare cancer patients; researchers (including all disease-based collaborative groups for clinical and translational research on rare adult solid cancers); scientific societies will be informed and engaged in setting up and, more important, fully use the Registry also after the end of this project.
At the end of the project an infrastructure for the data collection will be available together with rules for transfer, accessing and use the data collected.
Within this project, the EURACAN Registry will start to prospectively collect clinical information on the entire patient journey, in order to increase knowledge on rare adult cancers and to support clinical research.

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Topic: 4.1 Support the establishment of a system of European reference networks for patients with conditions requiring highly specialised care and a particular concentration of resources or expertise, as in the case of rare diseases, on the basis of criteria to be established under Directive 2011/24/EU.
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The ERN-RND Registry project aims to establish a demographic platform for collection of relevant core patient information. This will be accomplished by the construction and implementation of a single data base encompassing all rare neurological diseases in pediatric and adult patients (the ERN-RND Registry), which will collect information according to the "Set of common data elements for Rare Diseases Registration". The members of ERN-RND provide healthcare to more than 35,000 patients with rare neurological diseases. The proposed ERN-RND Registry will target patients, who suffer from the following rare neurological diseases and conditions: Ataxia and HSP, Leukodystrophies, Frontotemporal Dementia, Dystonia, Paroxysmal Disorders & NBIA, Atypical Parkinsonism and Huntington’s Disease & Choreas. The ERN-RND registry project will pursue three main objectives: 1. The ERN-RND core Registry will be developed using the RedCap database platform that is being operated at University Hospital Tübingen, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research. 2. The second main objective of the project will be to link the central ERN-RND registry with existing hospital databases and disease- or treatment-specific registries. 3. The third objective is the implementation of a continuous monitoring system to follow center performance in terms of care quality and patient outcomes.
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Topic: 4.1 Support the establishment of a system of European reference networks for patients with conditions requiring highly specialised care and a particular concentration of resources or expertise, as in the case of rare diseases, on the basis of criteria to be established under Directive 2011/24/EU.
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ERN-EYE (represented by Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg) will transform the current Rare Eye Disease (RED) landscape in Europe, which consists of >24000 patients treated in our centres, suffering from >1000 ophthalmologic conditions, by developing an interoperable, sustainable and high-quality core patient registry for RED (i.e. REDgistry). With REDgistry, we will tackle the issues that impair the currently operational RED registries in the 13 ERN-EYE countries: lack of shared standards, absence of cross-registry interoperability, instable funding, legal uncertainty, inconsistent data quality, and absence of data sharing procedures.

Hence, we aim at i) creating a harmonised high-quality GDPR-compliant registry developed in accordance to the FAIR principles (i.e. Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable), ii) entering the ad hoc cases while controlling and evaluating the data, iii) ensuring its long-term sustainability, iv) engaging the key REDgistry stakeholders. These objectives will be achieved by 1) establishing a sound governance and long-term sustainability strategy, 2) developing and implementing the IT platform, and 3) entering, cleaning and evaluating the data.
REDgistry will enable the performance of epidemiology studies on RED, improve identification of currently undiagnosed RED patients, increase patient access to novel treatments and clinical trials, and enhance RED research capabilities through international cooperation, knowledge sharing and the future development of interoperable disease-specific registries. The final outputs of the REDgistry project will be an operational basic registry with a common dataset enrolled in the European Rare Disease Registry Infrastructure, a specific ophthalmic dataset, an established governance structure for the registry, a report on the preliminary epidemiology of RED in Europe, a dissemination & communication plan to raise awareness of REDgistry, and a sound economic plan to ensure its sustainability.
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Topic: 4.1 Support the establishment of a system of European reference networks for patients with conditions requiring highly specialised care and a particular concentration of resources or expertise, as in the case of rare diseases, on the basis of criteria to be established under Directive 2011/24/EU.
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