This report provides a landscape analysis of the Health and Life Sciences cluster, conducted by the Strategy Council’s Task Force Health and Life Sciences as part of the Blueprint Process. The Blueprint Process seeks to enhance coordination and efficiency across Switzerland’s fragmented research data ecosystem, addressing one cluster at a time. Based on a unique methodology and stakeholder consultation, the analysis draws the picture of a fragmented landscape characterized by deficiencies in data sharing and reuse. These include the absence of standardized access regulations, obstructive legal obligations, and tensions surrounding the concept of data “openness”.
Using earlier findings as valuable reference points, this report provides a unique cluster-wide view, going beyond individual initiatives to investigate the use of available infrastructures and services across the entire data lifecycle and across data types and disciplines. The cluster was examined through various perspectives such as governance, funding, ORD-oriented infrastructures and services, findability, accessibility, interoperability, reuse, national coordination, and international cooperation.
Embedded within the National ORD strategy, this report establishes the groundwork for shaping strategic options that enhance coordination and efficiency within the Health and Life Sciences cluster as part of the StraCo’s blueprint. Collaborating with the Task Force, the StraCo’s Coordination Group has been tasked with translating these insights into a strategic vision for the cluster. This vision will be discussed and refined by the StraCo in consultation with stakeholders in the course of 2024 and 2025
