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After postponing the Transnational Access (TNA) programme for the past two years, the ARIADNEplus project has resumed the TNA for 2022. The project will organise four Summer Schools. It is possible to apply until 25 March.

During the SSHOC Final Conference, which takes place on 6 and 7 April, you will be challenged to participate in the online SSHOC’n Tell Challenge. You can register until 29 March.

Anja Smit, currently Librarian of Utrecht University, will be the new director of DANS, national expertise centre and repository for research data. She will be succeeding Henk Wals in mid-July, who is retiring.

SSHOC partners and stakeholders will gather in Brussels and online on 6 and 7 April for the SSHOC Final Conference titled: “Advancing SSH Research with SSHOCinlgy good and sustainable Resources”.

In just under four years, the number of deposited datasets has more than doubled to 200,000. In part, this has been made possible by the ‘machine-to-machine’ depositing of data, without human intervention. We have made strict agreements with the various institutions for this automatic depositing of data.

Dr Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch has been appointed as the new CESSDA Director. Her five-year term will begin on 1 April 2022.

The CoreTrustSeal Board is seeking input on the intended changes to the Trustworthy Data Repository Requirements for 2023-2025. The survey will be open until 15 April 2022.

Research Data Netherlands (RDNL), the partnership between 4TU.ResearchData, DANS and SURF welcomes Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences (DTL). With the arrival of this new partner, RDNL can better serve all domains of science benefitting from a joint approach to training, long-term preservation and FAIR-based data stewardship.