This Call for Cascading Grants seeks applications from individuals and legal entities eligible for Horizon Europe funding who wish to receive financial support to enhance the activities or the adoption of the results of the RDA Working Groups (WGs). The call invites applications from: 

“Local Action – Global Connection” 14-23 May 2024

The Research Data Alliance’s 22nd Plenary meeting (VP22) will take place as a fully virtual event. Organised by the RDA Secretariat, VP22 will be held for half-days spread across two weeks, between 14-23 May 2024.

Invitation to the Regional Assembly meeting.

Agenda – RDA Regional Assembly 

2 May 2024 14:00-15:00 EEST (UTC 11:00-12:00)

Agenda

• RDA Update - Hilary Hanahoe
• Regional sessions and National Data Services BoF at P22
• RDA Around the World: Report on the Pilot session and next steps

• Next meeting

  Link to join the meeting:

The RDA Secretariat is excited to report the soft launch of the long-awaited RDA redesigned website on 25 March.  After a decade of incremental upgrades, the underlying technology is completely redesigned to provide improved integration of communication channels and additional services and a more modern and approachable look.

The RDA Secretariat will organise a webinar series highlighting the RDA's regional members' activities and their overall research data management, FAIR data and research landscape. 

SecretariatIn this context, a 'pilot' webinar organised by the RDA Secretaiat and RDA Europe will be held on RDA France, which will present its activities and the national context in which these activities fit.

The webinar is scheduled in two similar sessions to allow for global participation:

The workshop on Regional Support to Certification of Data Repositories will be held on 21 November at 10:00 UTC.

You can register to participate at https://www.rd-alliance.org/regional-support-certification-data-repositories  

The workshop is open to all, RDA members as well as people who are not (yet).

Join the Improving Global Agricultural Data (IGAD) Community of Practice and the Global Water Information Interest Group to discuss the challenges, solutions, and initiatives for managing agricultural and environmental data.

About the Working Group

An RDA-OfR Working Group (WG), supported by Oracle for Research (OfR) and facilitated by the Research Data Alliance (RDA), will be initiated to determine successful methodologies and industry gaps of data sharing platforms to better facilitate data publication, access, sharing and collaboration among the global research data community. 

RDA TIGER, a support services project for the Research Data Alliance Working Groups (WGs) was launched on the 20th of January 2023 in Brussels, Belgium.