Goodbye 2024, Welcome 2025: Here’s What Awaits!
Happy New Year! The Göttingen eResearch Alliance wishes you all a happy, healthy and successful 2025. We start this new year with a brief review of 2024 and a look ahead to what 2025 has in store.
The year 2024 had some highlights in various areas and some of these highlights should be briefly mentioned here:
Goodbye 2024!
Services
The research data repository GRO.data reached the 1 million downloads mark in 2024. GRO.plan and GRO.data have also been included in the AcademicCloud and can now be used throughout Lower Saxony.
FDM@Campus
The joint conference FDM@Campus was organised by the eRA in Göttingen for the first time. More than 60 national and international participants were guests in Göttingen.
Cooperation with FDMNDS
The eRA is pleased about the close cooperation with the State Initiative Research Data Management Lower Saxony in 2024 and looks forward to further collaboration.
eRA goes Mastodon
In November 2024, the eRA started its activities on Mastodon. In its first two months of activity, the eRA posted 28 toots and gained 66 followers. In December, the eRA also published its Advent calendar 2024, which mainly consisted of posts from FDM@Campus.
The eRA is very satisfied with these developments over the past year and is continuing to work on improving its services in 2025.
Welcome 2025!
In 2025, the eRA is looking forward to continuing and further developing successful programmes and collaborations. Some developments are already taking shape and should be briefly mentioned here.
FDM@Campus 2025
The response to FDM@Campus-2024 is reason enough to organise a second edition of the joint conference! Planning for FDM@Campus-2025 is therefore in full swing and the eRA hopes to be able to publish a save-the-date as soon as possible.
Open Science Community
Here is a selection of other interesting events coming up this year:
- FDM-NDS: Train-the-Trainer Workshop: 4-5 February 2025, online
- Text+: FAIR February event series
- Love Data Week: “Whose data is it, anyway?”: 10-14 February 2025
- E-Science-Tage 2025: “Research Data Management: Challenges in a Changing World”: March 12 to 14, 2025 online and in person in Heidelberg.
- EU Open Data Days 2025: From insights to impact – the power of open data. 19-20 March 2025 at the European Convention Centre in Luxembourg (ECCL) and online.
- NFDIxCS: Creating a Research Data Management Container (RDMC). 26 March 2025 at Campus South (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany).
- Text+: 4th Text+ Plenary: 16-17 June 2025 in Göttingen
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International Data Week 2025: 13-16 October 2025 in Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia.