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The United Nations declared the ‘International Volunteer Day’ on the 5th of December. In the Netherlands this day will be celebrated tomorrow, on the 7th of December. It is a day set up by the volunteer organizations of the United Nations to show and promote volunteer work worldwide. Data on volunteers and their work can also be found in EASY.

The Amsterdam UMC is the first hospital in Europe to make data on intensive care patients available for research. The anonymized data is deposited in EASY.

This year’s program of OpenMR Benelux 2020 has been confirmed. The conference is aimed at researchers who work with Open MRI Science data.

OpenAIRE stands for Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe. The purpose of OpenAIRE is to support the Open Science policy of the European Commission. The EC wants publications and datasets that are funded with European research funding to be open access. The web page of the Research Data Management task force contains a large number of products that support the open access to research data.

The Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) has started making its publications available via NARCIS. NLR is the central knowledge enterprise in the Netherlands in the field of aerospace.

On the 21st of November, participants of the National eScience Symposium in Amsterdam witnessed a special event: the launch of the FAIR Software Route. This online step-by-step guide helps developers, researchers and data stewards creating and storing research software in a FAIR way.

Indonesia’s first national data repository is inspired by DANS. Scholars have proposed research data repositories where researchers can share data openly. These data pools allow researchers to verify and reproduce the results of published studies.