The ELIXIR All Hands Meeting (AHM) was held in Uppsala, Sweden this June. We at EGA always look forward to this meeting as a chance to see many of our partners and colleagues face-to-face. The Federated EGA (FEGA) is one initiative that always benefits from the AHM, and this year FEGA was in the spotlight, with several questions related to the advances we've made recently. We held this year's FEGA workshop a little differently, with most time for discussions on various “hot topics”. Organised in different breakouts, over 2 rounds, participants could choose which session they wanted to attend.

One breakout was a general Q+A about FEGA and the path to join. We had a diverse range of participants, including experts from Central EGA (CEGA) and FEGA inaugural nodes, people from up and coming nodes at various stages of readiness, as well as participants not directly a part of FEGA but curious to learn more. It made for a great discussion!

In this blog post, we highlight some of the questions for those who didn’t have a chance to be there.

What is the FEGA Collaboration Agreement?

What about purely medical data? Is this accepted in FEGA?

What about other data types other than genomics? Like proteomics or images?

Does CEGA require a certain amount or type of data to be shared by the node?

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Does CEGA and FEGA require a certain amount or type of details and description on the data to be submitted to the node?

What are the geographical borders of FEGA?

What are the main differences between FEGA and GDI?

If you have more questions, please consider having a look at the FEGA onboarding webpage and, of course, don't miss our workshop at the ELIXIR AHM next year!