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This fall, Research Data Netherlands (RDNL), Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the University of Edinburgh will organize the online course ‘Delivering Research Data Management Services’ for the third time. The registration is open.

Knowledge is lost, potential innovations stagnate and careers become frustrated. In short, these are the consequences of the corona crisis for young scientists if nothing happens. Reason enough for the PhD Network Netherlands, PostdocNL and De Jonge Akademie to send an incendiary letter to the government on behalf of all Dutch Young Academies, requesting a continuity package of € 350 million.

Results from a collaboration between RDA Europe, FAIRsFAIR, OpenAIRE, FREYA and EOSC-hub have just been published in Patterns in an article entitled Recommendations for Services in a FAIR Data Ecosystem.

FAIRsFAIR surveyed 66 currently active service providers, repository managers, data services managers, and users to discover their thoughts and opinions about the FAIR certification of repositories and other data services.

This autumn, a new round of the course Essentials 4 Data Support will start. Essentials 4 Data Support is an introductory course for those who (want to) support researchers in storing, managing, archiving and sharing their research data.

The Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency (RCE) and DANS decided to use DataverseNL from April 2021 as the new DCCD portal for depositing, downloading and (inter) nationally disseminating tree-ring data.

Through a request for feedback from the community, CoreTrustSeal is investigating how the organization can respond better to the field’s needs.

Until 11 August 2020 it is possible to comment on a deliverable of the project FAIRsFAIR – Fostering FAIR Data Practices in Europe. This feedback will be included in the new version, which will be released at the end of August.