Regional engagement & European nodes Sara Garavelli, RDA Europe Coordinator RDA Europe Webinar Regional Engagement 5 December 2018 07/11/2018 www.rd-alliance.org - @resdatall

What is a EU regional/national node? A node can be a single organisation, or a group of organisations, representing one or more countries, committed to support research data policies at national or regional level, promoting research data management best practices and solutions and actively engaged in the Research Data Alliance. The RDA nodes receive «seed funding» via the RDA Europe 4.0 project.

What does an RDA Node do? Support data research at regional / national / local level, promoting the RDA vision and results through events, workshops and meetings ensuring capillary uptake of RDA principles and lowering cultural/language barrier Synergise with national, European and global organisations in concrete actions to facilitate the uptake of RDA recommendations and principles Act as central contact point between the national / regional data practitioners and RDA, interacting with national research funding bodies Contribute to the definition of European data policies to support the future data economy reaping the benefits of FAIR data Contribute to the definition of RDA’s strategy and participate in RDA processes and governance

The RDA European nodes network https://rd-alliance.org/ - https://twitter.com/resdatall

Join/become an RDA Node 3 calls to fund a further 13 nodes: 1st Call: May-Aug 2018 2nd Call: Jan-April 2019 3rd Call: June-Sept 2019 Total funding available 462,000 € www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall https://grants.rd-alliance.org/OpenCalls/rda-europe-call-new-nodes CC BY-SA 4.0

Open Calls for Adoption Grants RDA Europe 4.0 is offering 8 grants to support the adoption of RDA Recommendations and Outputs. CALL FOR ADOPTION GRANTS AT A GLANCE Each grant up to 15,000€ Total number of grants: 8 One wave: December 2018 – February 2019 Expected outputs: Carry out small-scale projects to demonstrate and disseminate adoption of RDA’s outputs and ICT Technical Specifications. Who can apply? Active organisations who can demonstrate take-up of RDA’s outputs and ICT Technical Specifications. Find out more about the grants and how to apply! grants.rd-alliance.org www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall CC BY-SA 4.0

rd-alliance.org/plenaries Open Calls for Experts & Early Careers to support participation to the RDA Plenary meetings organised around the world every 6 months bringing together a unique community of data science professionals, from multiple disciplines and domains; move the community forward in creating tangible deliverables that improve data sharing across disciplines, technologies, and countries; working meetings of RDA Working & Interest groups and new potential groups through Birds of a Feather meetings presentation of new Outputs and Adoption cases www.rd-alliance.org @resdatall rd-alliance.org/plenaries CC BY-SA 4.0

rd-alliance.org/plenaries RDA’s 13th Plenary Meeting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2- 4 April 2019 Call for ECRs & Experts open grants.rd-alliance.org https://rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-thirteenth-plenary-meeting-philadelphia-us rd-alliance.org/plenaries WWW.RD-ALLIANCE.ORG @RESDATALL CC BY-SA 4.0

RDA’s 14th Plenary Meeting Helsinki, Finland 23-25 October 2019 https://rd-alliance.org/ - https://twitter.com/resdatall

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