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The book “The Trouble with Big Data” (Jennifer Edmond, Nicola Horsley, Jörg Lehmann, Mike Priddy) explores the challenges that our society faces with big data.

Within the Levend Verleden route of the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA), several interesting funding opportunities have opened up. These are the call for Small Projects and the call within the programme line Research along Routes by Consortia.

E-RIHS is working hard to realise its ambition to develop a European infrastructure that provides access to international laboratory facilities, research data and a network of knowledge and expertise. Within the Dutch E-RIHS infrastructure, DANS contributes to the FAIRification of the Dutch data landscape using a needs analysis.

On January 13th, 2022, DANS played a central role in the workshop co-organised by FAIRsFAIR, SSHOC, and EOSC-Nordic regarding the creation and facilitation of a European network of FAIR-enabling Trustworthy Digital Repositories (TDRs). The workshop provided interesting insights into the next steps towards the creation of this network.

Last week, the European Commission awarded an amount of 10 million euros to a consortium that will implement the FAIR principles in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The project, in which 28 partners from 10 European member states work together, will be led by DANS deputy director Dr. Ingrid Dillo. It will start on May 1, 2022 and will run for three years.

The ACME-FAIR guide, designed to help managers of research data management (RDM) and related professional services self-assess how they enable researchers to adopt FAIR data principles, is now open for public comment.

The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC) project hosts a trainers directory – an inventory of trainers operating in the field of social sciences.

The SURF Research Support Champions are people who have made remarkable efforts over the past year to support research within their institution. The winners will be announced on 10 May 2022, at SURF Research Week. Nominate your colleague now!