Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce that the registration is now open for our two one-day Data Steward Knowledge and Skills workshops on June 11 and 12, 2019 in Utrecht. Registration is free of charge and we hope to welcome many of you there for a working meeting with and for the Data Steward Community!

Dates: Two one-day workshops. First one June 11 & the second one on June 12 June 2019. Maximum participants per day: 25.

Location: Holland Heart House, Utrecht, https://www.hollandhearthouse.nl/Routedescription_HHH.pdf

Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccCFvNqcA-3fmBqelUXN2EMGHUq68W0XfbBGt46tSOP7Govg/viewform

Registration is free of charge. Lunch is included.

Time: 10-16 hrs

Programme: https://www.dtls.nl/events/data-steward-knowledge-and-skills-workshop/ and https://www.dtls.nl/events/data-steward-knowledge-and-skills-workshop-2/

Target audience

Data stewards, data managers, policy makers, HR persons, funders and all other stakeholders that are interested to share their expertise in Data Stewardship, want to get updated about the work that is going on, and want to contribute to the next steps that will be taken. Although the main focus is for the Life Sciences domain, our work on the competencies and skills of the data stewards is rather generic and also useful for other disciplines. Therefore participants from other disciplines are very welcome to join.

Goal of the meeting

In a ZonMw- funded project where we are working on defining the profession, skills and training needs of Data Stewards in the life sciences. All the output of the project produced so far can be found on https://zenodo.org/communities/nl-ds-pd-ls/. It is our ambition to produce tangible outputs, that can be used and implemented in the organisations. To achieve these goals it is crucial to get input from the community. In this way we make further steps in defining community-endorsed outcomes and decide together which next steps are needed to improve data stewardship function descriptions, capacity, visibility, recognition and training. As a data steward, you will meet your peers, expand your network, and will be able to get insight in the current status of Data Stewardship in the Netherlands and beyond.

Concept Programme for both June 11 and June 12

Please note that it will be an interactive day, with working sessions and we invite you to bring your own materials with you, for example your current job description, job advertisements from your organisation, the data management policy of your organisation, information about trainings that you have attended and found useful, etc.

9.30 Registration open

10.0 Welcome & Introduction (Celia van Gelder, DTL/ELIXIR-NL)

Introduction of the project
Who is in the audience?

10.30 Working session 1: Your job description & role (Salome Scholtens, UMCG)

Introduction of the Function Matrix and the Venn Diagram for the Data Steward roles
Interactive session to positioning yourself in the Data Stewardship landscape.
Do you recognize your own role, what is your position in your organisation, does your job description match our derived function profile? What are you missing?

11.30 Coffee break

12.00 Working session 2: Your knowledge, skills and abilities (Mijke Jetten, Radboud University)

Introduction of the Knowledge, skills and learning objectives
Interactive session in groups to analyze specific parts of the KSA table
Report back from breakout groups.

13.00 Lunch

13.45 Working session 3: Your training

Introduction of the Training related plans
Working session

14.30 Coffee break

15.00 Working session 4: What’s next

What are the next steps to be taken by the policy makers in organisations/institutes, funders, HR etc?

15.45 Wrap up

Conclusions of the meeting & next steps

16. 00 End of meeting

Best regards on behalf of the project team,

Celia

Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder

Programme Manager DTL Learning

Training Coordinator ELIXIR-NL

ELIXIR Training Platform Leader

tel. +31613375327

e-mail: celia.van.gelder@dtls.nl

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