Confirmation of the work of the NUM: The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) currently describes the imminent stabilisation of the NUM in its "High-Tech Agenda Germany" in the chapter "Health Research". In doing so, the ministry is once again concretising the announcement from the coalition agreement:
"We are promoting the targeted linking, use and development of medical data sets of unprecedented scope and detail and their connection to the European Health Data Space (EHDS), including from the Network of University Medicine (NUM), clinical studies, the Health Research Data Centre (FDZ), genomDE, the medical registers and the NAKO Health Study. This enables the development of new diagnostic methods, active substances and drugs, vaccines and therapies so that diseases can be prevented, detected, treated and cured in a more targeted and personalised way. The third funding phase of the NUM with new projects and the development of new infrastructures, e.g. through the integration of the German Biobank Node (GBN), started on 1 July 2025. This represents a superordinate platform for German biobanks and provides an overview of the access modalities and possible uses of the biosamples stored there. The stabilisation of the NUM is planned for 2026 at the latest and the connection to the EHDS in March 2029."
(Source: Website BMFTR - Hightech Agenda Germany)