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This year, CESSDA will celebrate its 50th anniversary. DANS has been a partner from the start. We reflect on how CESSDA and DANS enriched each otherโ€™s work in the past year.

As a national centre of expertise and repository for research data, we want to be more proactive in showcasing how the data published with us are being found, accessed and reused. Therefore, we are creating new case studies featuring researchers who reuse data. Would you like to tell us more?

Research Data Netherlands (RDNL) now offers the GDPR 4 Data Support (GDPR4DS)ย courseโ€ฏin Dutch. This introductory course is for data supporters who want to understand more about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the context of research and want to strengthen their role in protecting personal data.

2025 marked a year of important milestones for DANS. We celebrated our twentieth anniversary, witnessed the results of many years of collaboration in national and international projects, and continued to strengthen our infrastructure, services, and support for researchers and data professionals.

Our collection contains unique datasets. Precious metals found in the famous 17th century Palmhoutwrak (BZN17) have been researched by an interdisciplinary team with the latest material research methods. The resulting data are now available through the Data Station Archaeology.ย 

To best serve our community of research supporters, policymakers and researchers at the next DANS Open Day 2026, we would like to ask for your input. Have your say in shaping the programme!

CESSDA has recently published the Monitoring Report 2024โ€“2025: Data Citation Practices. The report examines how CESSDA Service Providers (SPs) facilitate the citation of datasets in their collections in order to encourage correct data citation.

The CoreTrustSeal requirements have been updated based on the Boardโ€™s experience and extensive community feedback. The guidelines have been clarified, overlaps have been reduced, and greater attention has been paid to an international audience.