The EHDEN Foundation was established to continue the mission and long‑term sustainability of the IMI–EHDEN project, ensuring that its achievements, network, and open‑science principles remain active well beyond the project’s formal end.
The IMI–EHDEN project itself was a major five-year European public–private partnership that set out in November 2018 to address the challenges in generating insights and evidence from real-world clinical data at scale, to support stakeholders in understanding wellbeing, disease, treatments, outcomes and new therapeutics and devices. Additional objectives included to harmonise real‑world data across the continent using the OMOP Common Data Model, strengthen analytical capability, and grow a federated network of certified data partners.
Over its lifespan, the project delivered training, tools, research studies, methodological innovations, and one of the largest harmonised real‑world data networks in Europe. Its outputs continue to support researchers, regulators, industry, and healthcare systems today, and remain a cornerstone of the Foundation’s ongoing work.
To learn more about the EHDEN project, you can either explore the high‑level overview in our summary booklet, or dive deeper into the full archive of content on the EHDEN project website using this page's menu subitems.
