RDA Europe continues its series of support programmes for data researchers and practitioners and is offering financial support to facilitate participation of 8 Early Career Researchers and 6 Expert members to the 12th RDA Plenary meeting in Botswana.
The second edition of International Data Week (IDW 2018) will be held on 5-8 November 2018 in Gaborone, Botswana bringing together data professionals and researchers from all disciplines and from all parts of the globe. Co-organized by the ICSU World Data System (WDS), the ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) and the Research Data Alliance (RDA), this landmark event will address the theme of ‘The Digital Frontiers of Global Science’ and will combine the 12th RDA Plenary Meeting, the biannual meeting of the research data community, and SciDataCon 2018, the scientific conference addressing the frontiers of data in research.
RDA Europe has run two Open Calls for grant applications - Meet our grant winners below:
Early Careers Researchers and Scientists working with Data
Rossella Aversa -- CNR-IOM Istituto di Officina dei Materiali
Maja Dolinar -- University of Ljubljana
João Rocha de Silva -- INESC TEC
Laura Rothfritz -- University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam
Ana Slavec -- InnoRenew CoE Renewable Materials and Healthy Environments Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence
Dorothea Strecker -- Humboldt University Berlin
Martina Trognitz -- University of Heidelberg / Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Yasemin Turkyilmaz-van der Velden -- Erasmus University Medical Center
Data Experts
Ian Bruno -- Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
Justin Buck -- British Oceanographic Data Centre
Caterina Caracciolo -- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Tomasz Miksa -- TU Wien
Fiona Murphy -- Murphy Mitchell Consulting Ltd
Hugh Shanahan -- Royal Holloway, University of London