When: 22-23 May
Location: Social Impact Factory Vredenburg, Vredenburg 40, 3511 BD, Utrecht (get directions)
Download the programme brochure (pdf)
Are you interested in the topics of open research and FAIR data? Then join the first mini-conference on Open and FAIR practices in Natural & Engineering Sciences this spring!
The mini-conference will be held from 22 to 23 May, at the Social Impact Factory Vredenburg in Utrecht, as a collaboration between 4TU.ResearchData, TDCC NES (The Thematic Digital Competence Centre for the Natural & Engineering Sciences) and Open Science communities. During this event we will also celebrate the 15th anniversary of 4TU.ResearchData! Join us and connect with like-minded people and network in an inspiring and relaxed environment.
What to expect
Open and FAIR practices finally meet in the field of NES, with the goal of addressing discipline-specific problems and finding solutions together. We invite you to two days of panel discussions with experts and innovators in Natural Science and Engineering, workshops and pitches by different people working in the field, researchers, policy makers, and community members.
The main themes of the event are Funding Opportunities, FAIR research practices, and Open Scholarly Infrastructure. For each theme, we are organising a panel discussion to inspire our communities. The panels will be followed by pitches, presentations, and workshops by our community members.
Schedule
Day 1 – May 22
Note: All sessions are held in the Eventspace, unless marked as parallel sessions in other rooms.
- 10:30 Walk-in, getting to know each other
- 11:00 Official welcome by the organizers
- 11:30 Panel on FAIR research practices
Raul Zurita Milla (UT), Liz Guzman-Ramirez (TU/e), Paula Martinez Lavanchy (TU Delft), John Swinbank (ASTRON), Zafer Ozturk (UT) - 12:15 Lunch, Marketplace and Networking opportunities
Marketplace Posters and Activities:NFDI4ING & Base4NFDI – research data management services within and beyond Germany’s national research data infrastructure for engineering sciences
Évariste Demandt (RWTH Aachen University)Journal with FAIR Principles: Supporting Openness in Engineering Sciences
Agnes Kleinhans (TU Darmstadt)Data management and visualisation with QHarbor data platform
Alberto Tosato (TU Delft)Data Steward Curriculum – Skills4EOSC project
Nida van Leersum & Saba Sharma (TU Delft)Open Science Communities NL (OSCNL)
Games by the Ghost Collective - 13:30 Parallel workshops 1
| Workshop 1 | Workshop 2 | Workshop 3 | Workshop 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Room: Eventspace | Room: Berlin | Room: Beijing | Room: Barcelona |
| Gamifying Personal Research Data Training Carla Strubbia (TU Delft), Narmin Rzayeva (TU Delft) Learn how structured courses and gamification can enhance personal research data management skills and help promote FAIR data principles, engagement, and knowledge exchange. | Interoperability in practice: the case of NetCDF data format Leila Iñigo de la Cruz (4TU.ResearchData) Explore interoperable data formats in scientific workflows; learn how to access and analyze NetCDF files remotely through the OPeNDAP protocol using Python. | How to make your research software ready for publishing? Serkan Girgin (UT) Learn how to use Code Auditor to assess research software quality, identify issues, and solve them to enhance FAIRness of your software. | TDCC-NES project ideas for 2025 (prior sign-up required) Pitch and discuss your project ideas to tailor them to TDCC-NES requirements. |
- 14:15 Break for room change
- 14:30 Parallel workshops 2
| Talks and pitches | Workshop 1 | Workshop 2 | Workshop 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Room: Eventspace | Room: Berlin | Room: Beijing | Room: Barcelona |
| Organizing FAIR Scientific Knowledge from Engineering Sciences Using the Open Research Knowledge Graph: The Tailored Forming Process Chain Use Case Oliver Karras (TIB) Catalyzing plant natural product discovery with a community-driven linked knowledge base Multi-platform-multi-storage iRODS of TU Delft Transparency in Regulatory and Compliance Evaluations Non-technical skills for Research Software Engineers | Create your institutional research software template easily! Manuel Garcia Alvarez (TU Delft) Discover how to use the open-source Meta Template to design a customized research software template, ensuring standardized development practices within your institution. | Bridging research communities in the Netherlands with FAIR software: Brain Dynamics with GalerkinToolkit Francesc Verdugo, Daniele Avitabile (VU Amsterdam) Explore GalerkinToolkit, a multi-purpose software library allowing researchers to build their own simulation codes by means of a selection of building blocks. | Djehuty: Past, present and future of the 4TU.ResearchData repository Roel Janssen (4TU.ResearchData) Learn about the evolution of Djehuty, and participate in the future of the free and open source repository software that drives the 4TU.ResearchData repository. |
- 15:15 Celebrate 15 years of Research Data
Talks by Marjolein Dohmen-Janssen (4TU) and Daniel Bangert (4TU.ResearchData)
Celebrate together with drinks, snacks and live music and learn about the past and future of 4TU.ResearchData, data and software repository for science, engineering and design. - 16:00 Borrel
- 16:45 Closing day 1
Day 2 – May 23
Note: All sessions are held in the Eventspace, unless marked as parallel sessions in other rooms.
- 9:30–11:15 Parallel workshops 1
| Talks and networking | Workshop |
|---|---|
| Room: Eventspace | Room: Berlin and Buenos Aires |
| Walk-in, getting to know each other. 10:30 Discover the functionalities of Data Foundry, a design data platform developed by TU/e Industrial Design to support researchers prototyping with connected devices. Data management and visualisation with QHarbor data platform QHarbor is a FAIR data management platform for storing scientific datasets in a secure, organized, and simple way. | Project ideas matchmaking session for NWO call TDCC-NES Hosted by the team of the Thematic DCC Natural & Engineering Sciences Join this session to brainstorm project ideas and/or find others to join forces with. No matter if you already have a project idea, you want to give input on ideas of others, or you want to find a project to be involved in: This is the session for you. |
- 11:15–11:30 Coffee break
- 11:30–12:15 Panel on Funding Opportunities in NES
Speakers: Marta Teperek (NWO), Emmy Tsang (Invest in Open Infrastructures), Burcu Koopmans-Beygu (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Joanne Yeomans (TDCC-NES), Tanya Yankelevich (moderator, Open Science Community Delft) - 12:15–13:30 Lunch break, marketplace and networking opportunities
Marketplace Posters and Activities:
NFDI4ING & Base4NFDI – research data management services within and beyond Germany’s national research data infrastructure for engineering sciences
Évariste Demandt (RWTH Aachen University)Journal with FAIR Principles: Supporting Openness in Engineering Sciences
Agnes Kleinhans (TU Darmstadt)Data management and visualisation with QHarbor data platform
Alberto Tosato (TU Delft)The Netherlands Reproducibility Network (NLRN)
Daniela GawehnsOpen Science Communities NL (OSCNL)
Thematic Digital Competence Centre Natural and Engineering Sciences
Joanne Yeomans (TDCC-NES)Games by the Ghost Collective
- 13:30–14:15 Parallel workshops 2
| Pitches | Talks | Workshop |
|---|---|---|
| Room: Eventspace | Room: Buenos Aires | Room: Berlin |
| FAIR Metadata standards for drone/UAV Florian J. Ellsäßer (UT), Alice Nikuze (UT) Designing a Paired Omics Data Resource for Plant Natural Product Discovery The need for a modellers network with focus on governance & practice LTER-LIFE & NEMNET; partnering with Dutch Large Scientific Research Infrastructures | Open Hardware Stimulation Fund Santosh Ilamparuthi (TU Delft) We will delve into the challenges encountered in managing the fund, share key lessons learned along the way, and highlight the tangible outputs made possible through this support. iRODS: Yoda and ManGo Among various data management platforms, iRODS (Integrated Rule-Oriented Data Management) has gained popularity due to its customizability and flexibility. Join the workshop to learn about the two interfaces of the platform. | Open and FAIR in design Serkan Girgin (UT), Mathias Funk (TU/e) Let’s discuss Open Data and FAIR practices in design research and how domain-specific data repositories and archives complement general research archives, with the Data Foundry as an example case. |
- 14:45–15:30 Panel on Open Scholarly Infrastructures
Speakers: Matt Buys (DataCite), Thomas van Himbergen (SURF), David Groep (Nikhef), Frederique Belliard (TU Delft), Daniel (moderator – 4TU.ResearchData) - 15:30–15:45 Closing remarks day 2
Don’t forget to register! The programme brochure is also available (pdf)
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