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As part of the FAIRsFAIR Week 2021, which takes place from 7 to 15 April, FAIRsFAIR will present an overview of the main results and solutions of the stakeholders and the FAIRsFAIR community for the integration of FAIR on 13 April.

The annual event of DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) will take place on 7-9 September 2021. This year the event aims to discuss the role of digital interfaces in the arts and humanities.

Recently, representatives from the ten repositories that have been selected for the FAIRsFAIR Certification Support initiative joined an online support workshop. The objective of the event was to discuss long-term preservation planning in relation to the CoreTrustSeal requirements and share best practices.

The 2021 round of the Microdata Access Grant (MAG) call opened this week. MAG offers funding for research with CBS microdata to researchers at an ODISSEI member organisation. DANS also participates in ODISSEI.

On 27 January, Science Europe presented a list of evaluation criteria for assessing data management plans (DMPs). During this webinar, Peter Doorn gave a presentation.

Since late last year, Dutch Sign Language (NGT) has been an officially recognised language in the Netherlands. On 13 October, the Dutch Senate approved the bill for the recognition of Dutch Sign Language (NGT). Data sets about sign language are also available in EASY.

The new edition of E-data & Research features an interview with Henk Wals. E-data spoke with him about the new five-year programme of DANS, in which collaboration takes centre stage.

The CESSDA Data Catalogue (CDC) has had an update. The catalogue contains the metadata of the data sets of the CESSDA Service Providers. DANS is the national Service Provider of CESSDA.