The xShare project, in collaboration with the European CRO Federation (EUCROF), has successfully concluded its Open Call on EHDS and Clinical Research, with awards officially delivered to the selected winners during the EUCROF 26 conference.
This Open Call is part of xShare’s broader effort to support the early adoption of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) standards, with a specific focus on the secondary use of health data for clinical research. It invited EUCROF-affiliated Contract Research Organisations, either alone or in collaboration with hospitals, academic partners, technology providers and patient organisations, to implement real-life business use cases demonstrating the value of EHDS-aligned data exchange.
A strong response from the clinical research ecosystem
The call attracted a wide range of high-quality proposals addressing key challenges in clinical research, including patient self-nomination for trials, automated data collection, longitudinal cohort tracking and site feasibility assessments. Proposals were evaluated by an independent assessment committee on criteria such as patient impact, scalability across Europe, maturity of implementation, and alignment with EHDS standards, including EEHRxF and IPS+.
Awarded projects
Platinum Award
- Consorzio per Valutazioni Biologiche e Farmacologiche (CVBF) & Milo Health
Business Use Case: Patient self-nomination for pre-screening in clinical trials
Gold Awards
- Telemedicine Technologies & Fédération des Spécialités Médicales
Business Use Case: Support for data collection in health studies - Curewiki, Telemedicine Technologies & Dedalus
Business Use Cases: Patient self-nomination, protocol feasibility and data collection
Silver Awards
- Telemedicine Technologies & Greater Paris University Hospitals – AP-HP
Business Use Case: Support for data collection in health studies - Tune Insight, Fondazione Gabriele Monasterio Regione Toscana CNR & SOFTWAY MEDICAL
Business Use Case: Site feasibility guided by xShare and EHDS - Andaman7
Business Use Case: Longitudinal cohort tracking
Bronze Awards
- Consorzio per Valutazioni Biologiche e Farmacologiche (CVBF) & Qwince
Business Use Case: Support for data collection in health studies - Curewiki & VITO
Business Use Case: Patient self-nomination for pre-screening - Andaman7
Business Use Cases: Patient self-nomination and data collection - SKEZI
Business Use Case: Longitudinal cohort tracking
Moving from pilots to real-world impact
Through this Open Call, xShare and EUCROF are helping to bridge healthcare and clinical research by showing how EHDS standards can be applied in practice. The awarded projects will contribute concrete evidence on how interoperable, patient-centred data sharing can improve efficiency, data quality and patient engagement across Europe.
Further results and lessons learned from the implementations will be shared as part of xShare deliverables and future events.