What: A list of Trusted Research Environments throughout Europe, that are commonly in use by social scientists in Europe.
What is an awesome list?
A Trusted Research Environment (TRE) is a virtual machine on which a researcher can perform analyses on sensitive data, but the data cannot leave the environment without explicit approval by the data holder. This leaves the data holder in complete control of the data, facilitating GDPR compliance. The data may be sensitive because of privacy, copyright or commercial reasons. The concept is used a lot in the social sciences. Many data holders provide their own TRE, although some TREs are data holder-agnostic.
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Acknowledgments: This work is inspired by ODISSEI's Awesome Ontologies for Social Sciences & CLARIAH's Awesome Ontologies for Digital Humanities. An earlier version of this list was created as part of a HORIZON-INFRA-2023-EOSC-01 proposal, called TruSSD (Trust in Sharing Sensitive Data). The proposal intended to create a federated, transdisciplinary, and transnational ecosystem of TREs. After rejection of the proposal, ODISSEI (the Dutch national infrastructure for the social sciences), published the list and keeps updating it.
References: If you want to reuse the information on this page, we would appreciate a reference : Van der Meer et al., Awesome list of Trusted Research Environments
This Awesome list currently contains the following Trusted Research Environments:
| Existing infrastructures services | Geographic | Category |
|---|---|---|
| anDREa | Netherlands | TRE |
| Austrian Micro Data Center | Austria | TRE |
| Bianca | Sweden | TRE |
| BioMedIT network | Switzerland | TRE |
| CASD | France | TRE |
| DataSHIELD | International | TRE component |
| de.NBI Cloud | Germany | TRE |
| EHDEN | Europe | Community, TRE |
| EJP RD Virtual Platform | Europe | TRE |
| EMBL-EBI Embassy Cloud | United Kingdom | TRE |
| EPIC Cloud | Italy | TRE |
| ePouta | Finland | TRE |
| Federated EGA | Europe | TRE |
| FINDATA | Finland | Permits |
| GAIA-X DataLoft | Europe | TRE |
| Galaxy / UseGalaxy.eu | Germany | TRE, User portal |
| HONEUR | Europe | Community, TRE |
| HUNT Cloud | Norway | TRE |
| L3S | Germany | TRE |
| LETHE project infrastructure | Europe | TRE infrastructure |
| Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) | Germany | TRE |
| nCloud | Spain | TRE |
| ODISSEI Secure Supercomputer | Netherlands | TRE |
| OSSDIP | Austria | TRE Reference architecture |
| PANCAIM project infra | Europe | TRE infrastructure |
| Personal Health Train | International | Federated Compute |
| SANE | Netherlands | TRE, User portal |
| SATRE | United Kingdom | TRE Reference architecture |
| SD Services | Finland | TRE |
| SeERP | United Kingdom | TRE |
| Statistics Denmark Remote Desktop | Denmark | TRE |
| Statistics Finland – FIONA | Finland | TRE |
| Statistics Netherlands Remote Access | Netherlands | TRE |
| Statistics Sweden – MONA | Sweden | TRE |
| TSD | Norway | TRE |
| UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration | United Kingdom | TRE |
| Vantage6 | International | Federated Compute |
| Virtual Research Workspace | Netherlands | TRE |
| Wellfort | Austria | TRE |
