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Research data alliance Netherlands (RDA-NL) will host a community meet-up on 3 Septemberย at DANS and NWO, The Hague.

The CoreTrustSeal Board is seeking input for proposed changes to the requirements to take effect for 2026-2028.

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DANS is a partner in the SSHOC-NL project โ€“ Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud โ€“ which brings together ODISSEI and CLARIAH to strengthen the research infrastructure in the social sciences and humanities. Two recent deliverables highlight DANSโ€™ work on improving data deposit workflows and discovery tools for FAIR data use.

On 1 June 2005, DANS was founded as a joint initiative of the KNAW and NWO. Over the past two decades, DANS has developed into the national centre of expertise for sustainable access to and reuse of research data.

DANS is involved as a knowledge partner inย iSchool Netherlands: Dutch Design, an educational initiative that offers international students insight into the Dutch landscape of data management and digital heritage. The programme is organised in collaboration with the national iSchools platform, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, DOK Delft, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

From 13 to 15 May, the Thematic Digital Competence Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (TDCC-SSH) hosted a series of online matchmaking sessions as part of the NWO TDCC Challenge Call 2025.

The English spoken Essentials 4 Data Support course will start on 18 September 2025.

New conference paper published providing recommendations for repositories and data owners.ย