Guidelines for software management plans

The Netherlands eScience Center and NWO, the Dutch Research Council, have taken the initiative to form a working group to develop (national) guidelines for software management plans. This working group – composed of five experts in research software, representing different research organizations in the Netherlands, and roles within those organizations – started their work in December 2021. With input from a… Continue reading

ELIXIR-CONVERGE June 29 FAIR hackathon to create lesson plans

Please register & help us find experts by sharing the invite. We would love to have Dutch Life Sciences & Health data stewards (and alike) on board. Help us create lesson plans for life sciences research organisations to advance their data stewards’ and researchers’ FAIR skills. Audience: Everyone willing to work on joint lesson plans on how to implement FAIR… Continue reading

Course update BioSB

The upcoming BioSB HotTopics session focuses on the highly interesting topic “Computational Immunology” and its application in immune responses of challenging diseases. We’ve invited a number of experts to speak about utilizing and advancing Computational Immunology. We invite you to participate in the discussions and express your opinion or your insights, thus promoting the idea of HotTopics. Speakers: Rob de Boer (Utrecht University): Modeling and… Continue reading

Partner Advisory Committee May, 2022

The primary role of DTL as public-private partnership is to establish a collective national platform for Digital Life Sciences. In this role, DTL connects experts in research and infrastructure initiatives in the field struggling with similar challenges related to data management and shared use to help overcome these challenges in the many fields of life sciences and health and related… Continue reading

SURF Research Support Champions 2022: Sarah Coombs, Serkan Girgin, Michèle Huijberts

The SURF Research Support Champions 2022 are Sarah Coombs (Saxion University of Applied Sciences), Serkan Girgin (University of Twente) and Michèle Huijberts (Leiden University Medical Centre). The winners were announced during SURF Research Week, the annual event where research and IT meet. “In fact, all the research supporters nominated by their colleagues this year are winners,” stresses jury president Ron… Continue reading

NWO Open Science in Practice webinar

Did you miss last week’s NWO Open Science in Practice webinar? We had two wonderful talks presenting two projects in the area of open tools for data enrichment and visualization. The recording is available and is well worth watching: https://www.nwo.nl/en/open-science-practice-webinar-seriesThe third webinar in the series will be on Thursday, 2 June 2022, 15:00 – 16:00 CEST. This time, we will have:·         Anna-Lena… Continue reading

Training Project Manager Digital Life Sciences (0.8 – 1 fte)

Landelijk platform op het terrein van data-gedreven levenswetenschappen (‘digital life sciences’). DTL vormt een partnership van universiteiten, medische centra, instituten en bedrijven en richt zich op het ontwikkelen en versterken van het landelijke expertise netwerk – en infrastructuur – voor onderzoek en innovatie op het terrein van digital life sciences in Nederland. We bundelen krachten met verschillende expertise-gemeenschappen en vormen… Continue reading

Community Manager Digital Life Sciences (0.8 – 1 fte)

Landelijk platform op het terrein van data-gedreven levenswetenschappen (‘digital life sciences’). DTL vormt een partnership van universiteiten, medische centra, instituten en bedrijven en richt zich op het ontwikkelen en versterken van het landelijke expertise netwerk – en infrastructuur – voor onderzoek en innovatie op het terrein van digital life sciences in Nederland. We bundelen krachten met verschillende expertise-gemeenschappen en vormen… Continue reading

HYBRID Data Stewards Interest Group (DSIG)

We are excited to announce the first HYBRID Data Stewards Interest Group (DSIG) meeting in over 2 years. We are invited to the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology. Date: Monday May 30, 13.45 – 16.00 CEST plus drinks.Onsite: Heidelberglaan 25, Utrecht, room 1E, the NetherlandsOnline: between 14:15-16:00, online participation is possible via zoom.Speakers: Jet Zoon & Patrick Kemmeren (on setting up an… Continue reading

Growth Fund invests 325 million euros in Oncode-PACT to accelerate the development of cancer drugs

Utrecht, 14 April 2022 – The National Growth Fund invests 325 million euros in the Oncode-PACT plan to accelerate the preclinical development process of cancer drugs. This has just been announced during the press conference by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, chairman of the National Growth Fund Committee. The committee recommends allocating the entire amount, of which 161 million euros will be awarded… Continue reading