Over forty participants from the Caribbean joined the Third LEARN ECLAC Mini Workshop, held on 24 November 2016 and organised by LEARN project partner ECLAC at its Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The Mini Workshop reunited regional experts and a diverse audience from Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, […]
Ninety participants from around the world came together on 27 October in Santiago, Chile for the fourth Research Data Workshop of the LEARN project, titled “Implementation of policies and strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean”. The workshop was organised by LEARN project partner UN ECLAC, at its headquarters in Santiago. The international audience — […]
When it comes to delivering on Research Data Services, collaboration among Europe’s academic research libraries is key, according to one recent survey. The survey, which was conducted by a group of internationally renowned researchers in collaboration with LIBER’s Scholarly Communication & Research Infrastructures Committee and DataONE, showed that almost all European academic research libraries work with colleagues […]
11 October saw the publication of the Commission’s High Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), which can be found here. The Recommendations provide a solid starting point for further reflection and engagement of scientific user communities, research funders and Member States in the making of this global initiative. The EOSC aims […]
A key publication of the LEARN Project will be a Toolkit of case studies illustrating best practices in relation to Research Data Management. The process of commissioning the case studies began in July, and so far 16 prospective authors from across Europe and Latin America have agreed to contribute a total of 22 individual papers. First drafts […]
Between July 2015 and June 2016, the LEARN Project partner team at the University of Vienna (UNIVIE) collected and analysed over 40 RDM policies from across Europe. As previously announced (in our first blog post), UNIVIE more closely examined 20 of these policies from selected universities and research organisations, based on format and content criteria. […]
In February 2016 the LEARN Project launched a survey for research institutions particularly, but not exclusively, in Europe and Latin America to: a) use as a tool to assess their own readiness in relation to research data management (RDM), and b) help the Project to build a general picture of the state of play in this […]
From 6th until 9th of July 2016, the LEARN project partner UNIVIE organised a four-day “Training seminar for research data stewardship and e-infrastructures” within the project e-Infrastructures Austria. This seminar was targeted at representatives from libraries, research services and IT services that build repositories and research support services at their institutes. The aim of the […]
(This post is also available in Spanish / Este post también está disponible en castellano: Mini Talleres y próximas actividades de la CEPAL en el proyecto LEARN ) As we shared in one of our previous blog posts, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), has been working on a series of […]
The LEARN project’s third workshop entitled “Make research data management policies work” was held on 28 June 2016 at the Helsinki Congress Paasitorni . It was organised by LIBER together with the other LEARN partners (University College London, University of Vienna, University of Barcelona, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the […]
