All about secure data archiving (Part 3: FEGA Norway)

Lots of research data have a high reuse value and should be preserved after the project is finished, but not all of them can be shared openly. Join us for this Open Science Lunch to learn from FEGA Norway for archiving omics data that need restricted access.

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About the topic

Even though many types of data have a high reuse value, not all of them can be openly accessed for reuse by other researchers. Instead, these data require special ethical or privacy considerations and permissions for access. Only a few data archives in Norway offer solutions for secure, long-term preservation of research data that also include different ways of controlling access to archived data.

FEGA-Norway is the Norwegian Federated Node of EGA (European Genome-Phenome Archive) and is a repository developed and operated by ELIXIR Norway and UiO (TSD) for personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic research data. We will hear from Federico Bianchini on the technical archive solutions FEGA Norway offers. Additionally, Maria K. Andersen will present her own user-experience as a researcher with archiving transcriptomics and epigenomics data in FEGA Norway.

Grab your ‘matpakke’ and join us for the third part of Open Science Lunch on secure data archiving!

How to join

The event is open to everybody and you can join online on Zoom (Zoom link here).

About Open Science Lunch

Each last Thursday of the month at 12.00 we invite you to join us an open lunch to hear about how to make your research more open. We will discuss research transparency and visibility, open publishing, data sharing, and more! After each short presentation we will have a Q&A session, where you can ask questions or try yourself some of the tools and solutions we will present!

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Organiser

The seminar series is a collaboration between BOTT Universities in Norway: University of Bergen, University of Oslo, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Published Dec. 22, 2025 11:00 AM - Last modified Feb. 27, 2026 2:20 PM