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

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

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 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

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

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 –

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

BioData.pt Executive Director, Ana Portugal Melo, is present this Thursday, November 17th, 2022, at the kick-off meeting of the new Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) project, in Brussels, Belgium. The new €40 million GDI project, coordinated by ELIXIR, has the purpose of unlocking the potential of

BioData.pt participates in the PT_MedGen Conference, which takes place this Thursday, the 3rd of November, 2022, at the National Institute of Health Doctor Ricardo Jorge, in Lisbon. The PT_MedGen Conference is dedicated to the ongoing initiatives and challenges for establishing a National Strategy

BioData.pt | ELIXIR PT held its All Hands at the Center for Marine Sciences (CCMAR) Headquarters, in Faro, on September 28th-30th, 2022. The first part of the meeting consisted of the assessment of this Research Infrastructure (RI) by its External Scientific Advisory Board, restricted to BioData.pt

BioData.pt | ELIXIR Portugal, in collaboration with several other organizations, namely ELIXIR NL and ELIXIR SE has designed a program to train the first generation of Data Stewards for the life sciences, to support the implementation of data management, open science and FAIR data principles in

The ELIXIR CONVERGE Work Packages 1 & 8/9 face-to-face meeting took place from September 21st to 23rd, 2022, in Padova, Italy, and BioData.pt was represented by our CTO, Jorge Oliveira. The first day was focused on the deliverables and actions towards the end of the project, with a special concern