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FAIR-Aware has received a fresh revamp over the summer. Take a look and see for yourself how the new training functionality and updated guidance make the tool more informative and user-friendly. And don’t forget to share your experience with the tool using the newly integrated social media buttons!

From 7 to 10 June 2022, the 47th annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden. Proposals for the conference can be submitted until 7 December 2020.

The EOSC Future project is hosting its first series of open days on 23 – 25 November 2021. During this virtual event, participants will have a unique opportunity to ask questions about the inner workings of the EOSC Future project, recent developments as well as priorities going forward.

The recently published magazine Onderzoek addresses the challenges surrounding the exponentially growing terabytes of data. How do you store it safely and efficiently? And how do you make that data accessible and searchable? Journalist Nienke Beintema spoke with Henk Wals, director of DANS, among others.

87% of all researchers have a (very) positive attitude towards Open Science. Young scientists are even more enthusiastic with a percentage of 94%. However, researchers still experience barriers in the practical implementation. This has emerged from a survey commissioned by NWO among researchers from all disciplines.

On Tuesday, November 23, 2021, from 15:30 to 17:00 CET, the DANS Data Trail workshop: ‘FAIR data assessment tools: an evaluation’ will take place. Registration is now open.

The opinion piece “Making the European Open Science Cloud work: where to go from here?” was recently published.

The World Data System International Technology Office (WDS-ITO) is awarding two cash prizes of CAD$1,000 for projects that make innovative use of WDS data in a Virtual Research Environment or Computational Notebook.