Apply for access to research data and biological material
If you are an emplyee of an norwegian university or a university college, or an institution that uses FEIDE-login, please use these application forms to apply for new projects or project changes.
If you are en emplyee of an institution or an organisation that does not use FEIDE-login, please use these application forms to apply for new projects or project changes.
Here you may download a list of available variables in Fit Futures 1, Fit Futures 2 and Fit Futures 3.
Fit Futures stores biological material from the three data collections in UiT's biobank at the Faculty of Health Sciences. FF has biobank number 3800 in the national biobank register.
The projects must submit the project description/protocol with publication plan, an analysis plan on how the project will use the variables, for example outcome measures, exposure and adjustment variables as well as a data processing plan on how you plan to handle data in the project. The analysis plan and the data processing plan may be part of the protocol, , other documents in the application or a separate document. Furthermore, a list of selected variables.
If necessary, the project must also submit an approval from REK and a positive assessment from SIKT or the Data protection officer at the responsible Research Institution.
Data privacy and necessary permits
Projects applying for directly or indirectly identifiable personal data must provide lawfullness of processing in accordence with article 6 1 in the European Union's personal data protection regulation (GDPR) and the Personal Information Act. For most research project, the processing will be lawfull when it is necessary to perform a task carried out in the public insterest, cf. article 6 1 e or article 9 2 j GDPR.
The responsible Research Institution must assess whether a data protection impact assessment (DPIA) is necessary. Projects anchored at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, that are processing personal information, must submit an assessment from the Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (SIKT), in accordance with UiT's guidelines. Projects must also document any required approvals, for example from the Regional Ethics Committee (REK).
Deadlines and processeing
Applications must be submitted at least two weeks before the next Data and biobank committee meeting in order to be processed at the meeting.
Some processing time should be expected after each meeting. Data and/or biological samples will be provided when all necessary documents have been submitted, an agreement is signed, and the fee (if required) is paid.
Projects must pay given rates for access to research data and biological material. The fee helps to cover our expenses for the release, management and quality assurance of data. Student projects are exempt from this general rule.
Data and/or biological samples will be provided when all necessary documents have been submitted, an agreement is signed and the fee (if required) is paid.