Monthly round-up: January 2021

A new year and a new lock­down… But, plen­ty of news, events and oppor­tu­ni­ties from 4TU.ResearchData!

News…

• Shap­ing the future of data-enabled design research with Data Foundry
  
  Math­ias Funk from Eind­hoven Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy has devel­oped Data Foundry, an online infra­struc­ture for pro­to­typ­ing and design­ing with data. Read about how his col­lab­o­ra­tion with 4TU.ResearchData aims to improve the FAIR­ness of design data.

• Trop­i­cal cyclone risk research: Tak­ing the world by STORM!

RDNL Dutch Data Prize win­ner, Nadia Bloe­men­daal, from Vri­je Uni­ver­siteit shares the sto­ry behind her ‘STORM’ dataset that has been down­loaded more than 3,700 times since it was pub­lished to 4TU.ResearchData only four months ago!

• New to the crew at 4TU!

4TU.ResearchData wel­comes Eiri­ni Zorm­pa, our new train­er on research data man­age­ment and Open Sci­ence. Before join­ing the team in Jan­u­ary,  Eiri­ni stud­ied a PhD in Psy­cholin­guis­tics, dur­ing which she became pas­sion­ate about R, open sci­ence, and repro­ducibil­i­ty.

• FAIR Data Fund 2021 — Com­ing soon!
  
  Are you a researcher at TU Delft, TU Eind­hoven or the Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente? 
  Are you inter­est­ed in mak­ing your data avail­able online? 
  Are you in need of finan­cial aid to help make your data FAIR? 

Apply for the FAIR Data Fund! Appli­ca­tions open from 1st March 2021.

Events…

What did we get up to in Jan­u­ary? Our high­lights of the month:

• OS Bar­camp NL on 14th Jan­u­ary in Gather.town,
  Take a look at the ses­sion sched­ule and pro­pos­als.
• ‘Embrac­ing sci­ence as it is: beyond Nobel-like research’ host­ed by Mate­r­i­al Pio­neers on Jan­u­ary 18th.
  Watch the webi­nar! 
• Lei­den & Delft Data Car­pen­try ran on 14th, 15th, 21st and 22nd Jan­u­ary.
  Thank you to all par­tic­i­pants, helpers and instruc­tors.
• Figshare Fest 2021 on 20th Jan­u­ary
  Watch the talks, includ­ing our pre­sen­ta­tion about ‘4TU.ResearchData & the com­mu­ni­ty beyond’. 
• Recog­ni­tion and Rewards Fes­ti­val on 22nd Jan­u­ary took a deep dive into the cul­ture change a year after launch­ing the posi­tion paper ‘Room for everyone’s tal­ent’.

Dates for your diary…

For upcom­ing events check out the Open Research Cal­en­dar!

• Nation­al Open Sci­ence Fes­ti­val on 11th Feb­ru­ary.
  Check out the pro­gramme and reg­is­ter. 
• Open Sci­ence Con­fer­ence 2021 from  17th to 19th Feb­ru­ary.
  Check out the pro­gramme and reg­is­ter. 
• Col­lab­o­ra­tions work­shop (CW21) on 30th March to 1st April.
  Reg­is­ter now.
• Focus on Open Sci­ence UCL Open Sci­ence Con­fer­ence 2021 host­ed in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Sci­en­tif­ic Knowl­edge Ser­vices and LIBER on 26th and 27th April.
  Call for pro­pos­als open until 28th Feb­ru­ary. 
• SURF Research Week on 13th to 15th April.
  Check out the pro­gramme, reg­is­ter and nom­i­nate your SURF Research Sup­port Cham­pi­on of the Year by 13th Feb­ru­ary. 
• Open Call for Small-Scale Ini­tia­tives in Machine Learn­ing – OpenSSI 2021
  This call sup­ports researchers who need assis­tance with machine learn­ing or deep learn­ing meth­ods. Dead­line for appli­ca­tions: 1st March.
• Well­come Open Research Fund
  The fund sup­ports researchers to devel­op and test incen­tives for mak­ing health research more open, acces­si­ble and reusable. Check the web­site for key dates. 
• The NWO Open Sci­ence Fund is still open!
  The fund is avail­able to sup­port researchers to devel­op, test and imple­ment inno­v­a­tive ways of mak­ing research open. Dead­line for appli­ca­tions: 1st April.

In other news…

NEW CAREER OPPORTUNITY! 

Join the team of data stew­ards at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente!
The Library, ICT-ser­vices and Archive (LISA) is look­ing for a research data stew­ard to sup­port FAIR data with­in the Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente.
Apply now!

TU Eind­hoven has a new ‘Research Data Man­age­ment’ web­site! 
The web­site pro­vides infor­ma­tion about the require­ments of sub­sidy providers, data man­age­ment plans, pri­va­cy and ethics, data stor­age and man­age­ment, the orga­ni­za­tion of FAIR (meta)data, FAQs, and more…

Join the Open Sci­ence Com­mu­ni­ty Delft!  The OSC Delft has a new web­site and Twit­ter page! You can join the com­mu­ni­ty, and keep up with the lat­est events and ini­tia­tives.