ePLAN workshop on FAIR data

On 14 September 2017 ePLAN organizes a workshop for researchers and policy makers on FAIR data. FAIR data refers to data being Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable, with the goal to make science more transparent, efficient and accessible. For more info and registration, please click here.

New Humanities call

humanities_florenceThe eScience Center and CLARIAH have launched a new call: Accelerating Scientific Discovery in the Arts and Humanities.

The purpose of this Call for Proposals is to enable researchers working in the Arts and Humanities to address compute-intensive and/or data-driven problems within their research and to contribute to a generic and sustainable eScience infrastructure.

The deadline for the mandatory proposal abstract is 15 November 2016, 14:00 CET and the deadline for full proposals is 16 December 2016, 14:00 CET. More information can be found here.

Activities 2016

This year’s activities encompass:

  • Writing a White paper on Software Sustainability (in conjunction with the Alliance for Software Sustainability)
  • Exchanging information on national courses, workshops and schools on eScience and Data Research and finding white spots in education
  • Exchanging information on software and tools to enricht the eScience Technology Platform
  • Contribute to the annual national eScience Symposium 2016.