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The 2nd workshop of the OATEN (Open Access Tools for Effective Management) staff exchange, entwined with the ELIXIR Training Program in Management - ELITMa being developed under ELIXIR-CONVERGE, will take place from March 28th-30th, in Lisbon, hosted by BioData.pt | ELIXIR Portugal. The event will be hybrid, with 8 ELIXIR Nodes and ELIXIR Hub attending in Lisbon, and 1 Node

BioData.pt recently attended the Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) Pillar II Workshop in Sweden, alongside other members of the Portuguese team such as Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge, University of Aveiro, and Técnico Lisboa. The workshop focused on the Starter Kit of the project, which serves as a proof-of-concept to demonstrate how a set of applications and components can

The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) organized an introductory course on best practices in Research Data Management (RDM) which took place online on February 17, 2023. The course was provided in collaboration with BioData.pt | ELIXIR Portugal and was designed to disseminate best practices in Data Management and teach the basics of creating and using Data Management Plans

BioData.pt hosted a new Day2Day Data Management Course aimed at Life Sciences researchers. This one-day course was delivered by trainers Daniel Faria, Jorge Oliveira and Carolina Ventura Costa, and was attended by a total of 100 trainees from four BioData.pt Associates, namely: CIIMAR (Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental) - 28 participants FCUL (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de

In February 2022 the Portuguese Node of ELIXIR - BioData.pt hired the first Data Steward for Life Sciences in Portugal to carry out work at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. Carolina Ventura Costa supports researchers and advises them on handling their data according to FAIR and Open Science principles. The Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência is a research and innovation multidisciplinary

BioData.pt has published in 2022 an article at F1000Research reflecting on the socioeconomic impact of its activities during the period 2017-2021, in the light of the recommendations of OECD, ESFRI and RI-PATHS to monitor and evaluate the impact of European Research Infrastructures. Being BioData.pt the Portuguese node of the ESFRI landmark ELIXIR, and being understaffed with respect to managing human

The OATEN staff exchange aims at familiarizing ELIXIR Nodes with open-access tools for effective Node management. Several workshops are planned covering strategic management, financial management and project management, which are aligned with the Project Management Module of the ELIXIR-CONVERGE ELIXIR training program in Management - ELITMa. The kickoff of this project took place in Bergen in November 2022, with a

The Portuguese ELIXIR Node has been testing and providing feedback for the Local EGA and Beacon v2 repositories, being developed by ELIXIR Spain, at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG). Following these efforts, three ELIXIR Nodes, Portugal, Spain, and EMBL-EBI, joined to create recommendations and tutorials for other countries wishing to create a Local EGA node and Beacon, based on

BioData.pt Chief Technical Officer, Jorge Oliveira, is present at the 9th Research Data Management Forum ( 9º Fórum de Gestão de Dados de Investigação), which is being held this Thursday and Friday, November 24th and 25th, 2022, at the University of Évora. This Forum is organized by the FCT-FCCN – Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, through its Scientific Computing

The Consolidation Course of the first edition of the BioData.pt | ELIXIR Portugal Training Data Stewards for Life Sciences Program took place from the 15th to the 17th of November, 2022, at the Collaborative Center of Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, in Oeiras, with the purpose of training the first generation of Data Stewards for the life sciences to support the