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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.

DANS operates within various domains of science, and health and care data receive full attention within the developments of DANS. Cees Hof, DANS Data Station Manager Life, Health and Medical Sciences, presented the ins and outs of good data management and the advantages of sharing health data at the Science Day of the National Healthcare Institute.

Together with DANS, LCRDM and the Netherlands eScience Center, SURF is organising the SURF Research Bootcamp from 15 to 18 November.