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How do you create good training sessions? How do you meet the aims and the needs of your learners? What are the methods and tools to achieve that? These and other practical questions were discussed during one of the sessions of a 3-day long workshop focusing on instructor training organised by FAIRsFAIR, EOSC-Pillar, EOSC-Synergy en Ghent University. DANS is involved in both FAIRsFAIR and EOSC-Synergy.

From 15 to 18 June, the EOSC Symposium 2021 will take place. The online event revolves around: “Implementing an inclusive European Open Science Cloud”. DANS contributes in various ways.

The European-funded SSHOC project facilitates trainers in the social sciences and humanities with a community for exchanging knowledge and experience. Ellen Leenarts, Research Data Management Specialist at DANS, wrote about it in the June issue of E-data & Research.

Knowledge institutions, research funders and governments must focus on the wishes and needs of scientists when improving storage and availability of research data. Close collaboration among these parties and researchers is essential. This is what the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) advocates in its report ‘Storage and availability of data for research – from intentions to implementation’, published on 20 May 2021.

Over a course of one month, between 6 and 25 May 2021, over 50 reviewers from around the world attended the first CoreTrustSeal Assembly of Reviewer Workshop series, organised by the teams of the FAIRsFAIR project and CoreTrustSeal. DANS is involved as a coordinator and project partner in the FAIRsFAIR project, and through participation in the board of CoreTrustSeal.

This year, DANS is launching domain-specific Data Stations, which are places where researchers from various scientific disciplines can store, share and publish their data online, both during their research and beyond.

Europe offers many initiatives for researchers and data professionals to share publications, research data and research data management knowledge. OpenAIRE is one of the examples.

On June 7, the workshop ‘Riding the Next Wave of Research Data, Leveraging the COVID-19 response towards advancing data interoperability’ takes place. Ingrid Dillo, deputy-director of DANS and Co-Chair of the RDA Council, is one of the invited speakers.