Creating a federated cloud-based TRE to facilitate consortium-based research and interoperability between existing institutions/TREs

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We propose to create a technology demonstrator utilising the SnowflakeTM multi-cloud data fabric to show how a multi-institute, multi-council ecosystem can utilise the same platform for accelerating collaborative research, whilst still observing rigorous access and security management.Our vision for the next generation of Trusted Research Environments (TRE) is to create a general purpose capability which works for the majority of researchers, the majority of the time, expressly moving away from previous concepts of discrete, monolithic environments, to a distributed ‘data fabric’ which provides the ‘glue’ between any existing institutional investments.The key innovations we see as necessary are:• Moving to a ‘compute in situ’ model, away from the current paradigm of ‘download and compute elsewhere’ which dominates many TRE infrastructures• Creating a modular architecture, which creates generic services for processes such as research access management• Providing ‘out of the box’ workflows to expedite the creation and management of international, multi-party consortia, guaranteeing compliance with in-country data sovereignty and DPR legislation• Providing a bridge between academia, public sector bodies, especially the NHS, and industry• Resolve asymmetry of access to computing and storage environments across the research ecosystem, allowing contribution by talent, not wealth of institution