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Scientific service providers SURF, DANS, the Netherlands e-Science Center and 4TU.ResearchData were given the chance to present their services to potential users within the NWO Roadmap program.

On Thursday, June 20, 2019, AVA_Net is organizing a brand new AVA_Net Symposium. The location is at Beeld en Geluid in Hilversum. Registration is possible via the AVA_Net website.

Dutch data have recently been stored in the NEWW VRE (New approaches to European Womens’s Writing) and archived in the online archives of DANS’s EASY. During the DANS-colloquium on Research and Data: ‘Women readers finding their literary foremothers’ on the 21st of March, possibilities for datastorage were discussed. One of the initiatives, Suzan van Dijk, provides a brief account on the colloquium.

The EOSC-synergy proposal has been favorably evaluated and will start the last quarter of 2019. The project will be coordinated by IBERGRID, the Iberian scientific and technological cooperation framework signed by Spain and Portugal on distributed computing. DANS is a partner in the project and will provide knowledge and experts on policy development and FAIR data repositories.

The digital newsletter from DANS, DataLink, has recently been published. The April issue contains a collection of news items from the DANS website. DataLink appears every two months.

On the 1st of March, the three-year project FAIRsFAIR coordinated by DANS started. With an initial meeting on the 14th and 15th of March in Amsterdam, the 22 project partners kicked off the project gloriously.

The ‘National Institute of Health’ offers a workshop on the implementation of the CoreTrustSeal principles for data archives of the biomedical sciences.

In the science letter ‘Curious and involved – the value of science’, Minister Van Engelshoven (OCW) announces three ambitions for Dutch science for the coming four years. “Open science” is frequently used in this science vision and policy.