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Every year DANS offers a contribution towards the costs of participating in the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research of the ICPSR in the United States. Participants Rik Joosen and Willemijn Bezemer enthusiastically report on their experiences.

During the last Library Carpentry-Mozilla Global Sprint, 34 sprinters from 31 organizations added 6 additional topics to the Top 10 FAIR Data & Software Things. DANS participated.

The third week of the new open online course: Delivering Research Data Management Services has started successfully. Week 3 focuses on how a data management plan (DMP) can be put into practice, the development of DMP websites and DMP services.

In 2016 Douwe Zeldenrust received a KDP grant (small data project) on behalf of the Diary Data project of the Meertens Institute (KNAW). The project focused on digitizing the metadata from the collection of diaries and ego documents from the Dutch Diary Archive.

On October 21st, FREYA is organizing a half-day event that will encourage a discussion about the use of PIDs in the context of the EOSC at the 14th RDA plenary session in Helsinki, through demos and tutorials.

The Open Science FAIR will start in Porto on Monday 16 September. The second edition of the international Open Science FAIR will take place until Wednesday 18 September.

A search for the best thesis, initiated by Geo Information Netherlands (GIN) and the Netherlands Geodetic Commission (NCG), to discover new talent and to bind the next generation of researchers to the geosciences’ domain.

On 3 September 2019, DANS and the National Library (KB) organised an afternoon workshop on themes related to the exchange in the fields of research information and open science.