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PATTERN launches free and downloadable eLearning and training toolkit, developed by DANS, in collaboration with OpenAIRE amongst other project partners.

The new year is starting off good for data professionals, with another edition of the Essentials 4 Data Support courseThe course is offered by Research Data Netherlands (RDNL)and will be instructed in English this round. 

The newly updated version of the ODISSEI Portal improves discovery of more than 9,500 social science datasets from Dutch data providers. The update includes an improved display of the controlled vocabularies as well as software and documentation updates, making the Portal more stable and easier to use.

A new version of the European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) has recently been released. This edition introduces several important updates and improvements. Below we highlight the keychanges.

NWO awarded €16.8 million from the National Roadmap for Large-Scale Scientific Infrastructure to fund building the Macroscope: the world’s first population-level research infrastructure designed to observe and understand how societies change over time. 

In the year DANS celebrates its twentieth anniversary, we look back not only on the growth in the number of datasets, but also on the expansion of knowledge, collaboration, and vision. One of the themes that best reflects this development is FAIR – the principle that research data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

On 6 November the NDE (Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed) is organising a conference in Utrecht on World Digital Preservation Day. The programme offers several sessions on hot topics such as AI and cybersecurity. DANS is contributing with two co-organised sessions; one on certification and another on 3D content.

DANS is pleased to announce that nominations are now open for the 2026 Sarah Jones Award, established by the Research Data Alliance (RDA) in memory of Sarah Jones, visionary advocate for open science, data stewardship and international collaboration.