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10 December 2020

Focus on FAIR: programme DANS 2021-2025

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.

9 December 2020

Cornelis van Lit wins Victorine van Schaickfonds prize from KNVI with Open Access book

Collaborations

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.

8 December 2020

PC-GWI recognizes DANS as a large-scale research facility

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.

2 December 2020

NWO stimulates Open Science with new funding instrument

FAIR and Open data

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.

27 November 2020

NWO offers more than €93 million for research projects into urgent issues with a broad range of collaborative partners

Archaeology

Collaborations

A total of 21 consortia will work as teams on interdisciplinary research that will bring scientific and societal breakthroughs within reach. One of the projects receive funding in the second round of the Dutch Research Agenda Programme: Research along Routes by Consortia (NWA-ORC) is: Looking for the limes: the Romans in the Netherlands. DANS is one of the partners in this consortium.