What is WeShare ?
WeShare is a digital infrastructure dedicated to serve and advance research in the social sciences and humanities and quality of life applied to oncology.
WeShare is funded by the French government.
Medical Oncologist and Researcher
at Gustave Roussy, Project Leader
Key Figures
WeShare is a consortium lead by Unicancer under the scientific
coordination of Gustave Roussy
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7 Partners
are supporting
the project -
May 2021
officially
launched -
€11 M
Funding
WeShare (ANR-21-ESRE-0017) has been selected for the 2020 Equipex call for projects
by the ANR (French National Research Agency) under the “Investissements d’avenir intégré à France 2030” programme and has been awarded €11M in funding.
WeShare main objectives
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Provide researchers with the technical tools (for quantitative and qualitative data collection, facilitate interventional research, study management) needed to properly conduct investigative research focused on quality of life, including research in social sciences and humanities applied
to oncology. -
Build a public, standardized data repository of patient-reported outcomes (PROs), clinical, behavioral and socioeconomic data that will allow the conduct of large-scale ancillary or secondary studies applied to oncology (using FAIR standards).
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Advance and facilitate research in quality of life, social sciences and humanities applied to oncology, linking researchers to a community of patients and healthy individuals.
WeShare ambitions
- To be an innovative platform offering technological
tools to study all research themes in the field of Quality of Life, Human and Social Sciences and to act as an incubator
for innovative projects. - To ensure diversity and inclusion of all patients,
WeShare provides a first guidance for more
inclusive research which will be continuously
updated during the project.