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European Early Career Researchers & Scientists working with Data - RDA Europe Financial Support Programme for the 3rd RDA Plenary Meeting

Name: 
Hilary Hanahoe
Organization: 
Trust-IT Services Ltd

The Research Data Alliance is organising its 3rd RDA Plenary Meeting (https://rd-alliance.org/rda-third-plenary-meeting.html), at Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin, Ireland 26 to 28 March 2014. The 3rd Plenary concentrates on the theme ‘The Data Sharing Community: Playing YOUR part’ and is about exploiting RDA’s work to date to its full potential. The program will comprise of a mixture of keynotes, panels, networking, Working and Interest Groups as well as BoF sessions in topics ranging from agriculture to particle physics, from humanities to bioinformatics. All parts of the data lifecycle are addressed from foundational data terminology to data publication and re-use.

RDA Europe (europe.rd-alliance.org) is offering financial support to Early Career European Researchers & Scientists working with Data to attend the plenary meeting. The aim of this programme is to introduce European early career researchers & scientists to RDA, highlight what data scientists / practitioners are doing, leverage on Early Career Researchers & Scientists knowledge to support Plenary 3 activities and support the Working & Interest group activities.

Full Details are available at https://www.rd-alliance.org/support-programme.html

Interested candidates are invited to complete the on-line application form by 17th January 2014 at 17:00CET. Please note that candidates must register to the RDA web platform to submit the application. Applications can be modified directly from the member profile until the closing date. All candidates will be notified of the outcome of their application after 29th January 2014.