Almost 1.5 year into building a national training and community platform for data professionals, this session will get you up to speed on the work done so far, on how it will help you grow as a data professional or strengthen your organisation’s training strategy. You will also hear how you can be involved.

Data professionals are instrumental in the transition to Open Science and the increasing demand for high-quality data. Their role in Dutch research performing organisations (RPOs) is developing rapidly and with it, the competencies required to fulfil the job. To meet the growing demand for well-trained data professionals, Research Data Netherlands (RDNL) develops a national training and community platform. The project to make this happen is funded by Open Science NL and will be running until 2028.

Key components of this platform will be a national curriculum and competency framework for data stewards, relevant training courses offered by various training providers, including a newly developed Train-the-trainer course, learning paths and community profiles to help you identify peers to connect with. But: it only works if it fits your needs, as a data professional, training provider or RPO, that’s why we want to achieve this in co-creation with you.