Nucleons are composite objects. Their constituents, quarks and gluons, are described by quantum chromodymanics, a theory that can be solved in discretized space time. I will outline a program to relate this solution in the multi-baryon sector to effective field theories for nuclei. The goal is a fundamental derivation of the nuclear theory, thereby parameterizing the nuclear landscape with relatively few constants of the Standard Model. After introducing this program, I will give an overview of the existing lattice-QCD data base before presenting the results for characteristic few-nucleon observables which emerge from this data. I will detail my personal contribution including the application of the pionless effective field theory and the assessment of the pion-mass dependence of nuclear peculiarities like the Phillips and Tjon correlations. The outlook on imminent projects focuses on the pion-mass-dependence of electromagnetic properties of nuclei (moments and constituent Coulomb interaction).