News

On 1 June 2005, DANS was founded as a joint initiative of the KNAW and NWO. Over the past two decades, DANS has developed into the national centre of expertise for sustainable access to and reuse of research data.

DANS is involved as a knowledge partner in iSchool Netherlands: Dutch Design, an educational initiative that offers international students insight into the Dutch landscape of data management and digital heritage. The programme is organised in collaboration with the national iSchools platform, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, DOK Delft, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

From 13 to 15 May, the Thematic Digital Competence Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (TDCC-SSH) hosted a series of online matchmaking sessions as part of the NWO TDCC Challenge Call 2025.

The English spoken Essentials 4 Data Support course will start on 18 September 2025.

New conference paper published providing recommendations for repositories and data owners. 

logo for DataverseNL 10 years

DataverseNL celebrates its 10th anniversary. We celebrate this with an inspiring event where we look back at a decade of Open Access together and look ahead to the future (at Utrecht, Domstad).

Groepsfoto-SEFAP-consortium-voor-het-NIOO-gebouw-in-Wageninge

On 29 April, a consortium of aquatic research facilities received the welcome news that the Smart Experimental Facilities for Aquatic Processes (SEFAP) project has been awarded €4.18 million under the NWO programme for large-scale research infrastructure consortia.

DANS maintains a strong national presence and is acknowledged internationally as an innovative contributor in the field of research data management. These are among the findings of an independent review committee in its recent evaluation of the institute. The committee observes that DANS has played a meaningful role in advancing the professionalisation of data management, both in the Netherlands and internationally. The evaluation, conducted in June 2024, covers the period from 2017 to 2023. The full report, along with responses from DANS, the Scientific Advisory Board for DANS (WAR), the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and the Dutch Research Council (NWO), has now been made publicly available.