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With Eurostat estimating that in 2015, 119 million people, or 23.8% of the EU population, were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, poverty remains an important research topic in the context of Europe. Hosted by the CESSDA training group, this one-hour webinar will explore data available for researching poverty and its impact.

On December 11th the Workshop “Research Data Management in the Time of the GDPR” will take place at DANS in The Hague. This workshop will provide an overview of how to manage, document, store and safeguard research data by implementing good data management.

On the 28th of November, the award ceremony for the Dutch Data Prize 2018 will take place in The Hague. Under the name “Celebrating Data! What’s next?” an interesting program for researchers and data supporters has been drawn up.

The EOSC Stakeholders Forum “A community-empowered EOSC” will take place in Vienna on 21 and 22 November. This is a two-day event with various discussions, demonstrations and workshops on the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The forum is organized by the Horizon 2020 project EOSCpilot, the quartermasters for EOSC.

From 47 submissions, the professional jury nominated nine research projects for the Dutch Data Prize 2018.

On 18 October, the Open Science Festival 2018 will take place at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. This year the festival’s theme is ‘how to make your research open?’. The event takes place from 13:00 to 18:00.

On 17 and 18 January 2019 people who are knowledgeable in the ancient, Semitic language Syriac and the mature computer language Python will share their work in a two-day bootcamp titled ‘NLP tools for Syriac’, in Amsterdam.

The best initiative to promote Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) can win a trip to PIDapalooza – the international festival for Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) – in Dublin on 23-24 January 2019.