SURF Research Day 2026

Data management | FAIR in practice: Promise versus reality
2026-05-19 , Jeanne Roos

The FAIR principles are pushed as a standard for a decade now, but implementation is lagging. In this Challenge session we will investigate and discuss with you, experts and your peers, how to improve FAIR practices in research.

How big is the gap between FAIR as a policy and FAIR as daily practice in your research environment? What can you do in your role to close that gap? What kind of support is needed to help you? Together, we will look for the best ways to move forward and implement the FAIR principles in practice.

Do you have good ideas for this or specific challenges you want to bring to the table? Join us in this open discussion and let's connect our minds!

Jeroen de Wijn (SURF) will moderate this discussion.


What is the nature of your session?: Technology impact, Policy, Community With whom do you want to connect?:

everybody

What is the key take away of your session?:

Best practices to move forward and implement the FAIR principles

Researcher and teacher at Maastricht University.

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Dr. Ricarda Braukmann is Data Station Manager Social Sciences at DANS – the Dutch national centre of expertise and repository for research data. In her work, she supports FAIR data management and Open Science practices. She is involved in various (inter)national research infrastructure projects, including the development of the ODISSEI Portal which makes Dutch social science data discoverable.

Research Software Engineer and Interoperability Expert at Health-RI