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February 11, NPOS organizes the National Open Science Festival. During this online event researchers have the opportunity to learn about the benefits of various Open Science practices. DANS is also involved.

The employees of DANS wish you happy holidays and a prosperous 2021.

What does the Dutch data landscape need to be successful? How can DANS contribute to this success? These two questions were the starting point for DANS’s new five-year programme. Under the aegis of KNAW and NWO, DANS will focus on its role as national centre of expertise and repository for research data in the coming years.

The Victorine van Schaikfonds prize of 2500 euro and a medal goes to Cornelis van Lit with his book “Among Digitized Manuscripts. Philology, Codicology, Paleography in a Digital World”. Cornelis van Lit is collaborating with Dirk Roorda, researcher at DANS, on Cornelis’ FUSUS project in which DANS is participating, thanks to a contribution from Research IT Innovation Fund of the University of Utrecht.

On 15 December EOSC-hub organizes the webinar EOSC-hub data sharing policy recommendations & ELIXIR authentication-authorisation infrastructure. DANS is also involved and invites (future) EOSC data providers and other interested parties in authentication-authorisation services to attend the session.

The website onderzoeksfaciliteiten.nl provides an overview of all large-scale research facilities in the Netherlands, approved by the Permanent Committee on Large-Scale Scientific Infrastructures (PC-GWI), chaired by Prof. dr. ir. C.W. van Duijn. Recently, DANS was also added to the list.

NWO is launching the ‘Open Science Fund’, a new funding instrument intended to give Open Science a boost. Projects can be financially supported through the programme in the broad field of Open Science. Examples include projects aimed at developing innovative ways of (open access) publishing, the FAIR sharing of data or software, and projects that help bring about the necessary culture change. DANS underlines this initiative.

George Bray (Robert Gordon University) and Valerie McCutcheon (University of Glasgow) have announced the second iteration of their informal “Research Support Games Day”. It will be happening online on Tuesday 8th December 2020, 11:00 – 18.10 CET (10:00-17:10 GMT