Events from the CommunityiCAL Export

The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) is an established annual event with a unique place in the digital curation community, reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in curating data and providing an opportunity to get together with like-minded data practitioners to discuss policy and practice.

For more Information visit https://dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc26

We are excited to invite you to the EVERSE Community Engagement Event on Thursday, 5 February 2026.

In this full-day event, we will share news and updates related to EVERSE as well as exchange ideas and best practices. Also, there will be dedicated sessions to provide your opinions and have open discussions on issues that are important for the research software community across different domains.

We strongly encourage you to participate in-person to the event that will be held at CERN, Switzerland. For those who can not attend in person, remote participation will also be possible.

For more Information visit EVERSE Community Engagement Event · EVERSE

The third edition of the EOSC Winter School, set to take place in Nice, France on 27-29 January 2026 will build on the momentum created by the EOSC Symposium 2025 and the work of the EOSC Federation Build-up Group, advancing further convergence on the EOSC Federation among all stakeholders. The event is organised by EOSC-A with the support of the EOSC Gravity project.

The EOSC Winter School 2026 will deepen collaboration across the wider EOSC community, fostering stronger alignment with the EOSC Federation Build-up Group. The event will be co-located with a closed meeting of the EOSC Federation Build-up Group on 26-27 January 2026. Outcomes from this meeting will inform the discussions at the Winter School.

The EOSC Federation has now become the central reference point for the work of the INFRAEOSC projects and the wider EOSC community. The Winter School will offer extensive opportunities for participants to engage with the EOSC Nodes of the first wave to explore collaboration opportunities, identify partners for future funding proposals, such as the preparatory grants and inter-project grants under EOSC Gravity, and gain insights into future enrolment calls.

The Winter School will foster convergence through three complementary approaches:

• Strengthening exchange between the EOSC Nodes and the EOSC community: Creating space for dialogue and mutual learning to support future EOSC Node applications and onboarding of resources to the EOSC Federation,
• Providing opportunities to network and forge alliances: Enabling participants to identify partners and shape joint initiatives and funding proposals,
• Enhancing collaboration: Building on the Winter School’s established format, the event will foster in-depth discussions and hands-on collaboration across the EOSC community.

The EOSC Winter School 2026 will feature two interlinking parts:

• EOSC Stakeholder Brokerage Event (27 January): A matchmaking session aiming to connect resource providers with the EOSC Nodes
• Thematic tracks (28-29 January): Engaging sessions focused on:
  • Federating capabilities and interoperability
  • Resources
  • Competences and training

The programme includes social events and networking opportunities at the end of each day.

For more Information visit https://eosc.eu/eosc-gravity/eosc-winter-school-2026

The 12th GDI Forum will take place in person at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança. As in previous years, the programme will span two days. It will include technical workshops, short talks and poster presentations on projects and best practices, a ‘Coffee with Data’ session and panel discussions.

This year, the forum will take place as part of the activities of the ReData project – Network for Research Data Management – enabling a number of synergies that will greatly benefit this joint event.

The aim of the annual GDI Forum event is to bring together and motivate the community of professionals and researchers involved in activities supporting research data management, with the aim of developing technical skills, leveraging knowledge and practices, and promoting awareness of national initiatives.

It is a space for training and discussion to exchange ideas, new initiatives, projects and best practices in support of research data management. The aim is to bring together managers of digital repositories and data centres, information technicians, librarians, archivists and data curators, IT specialists, researchers, data scientists and science managers from research institutions and science funding organisations.

For more Information visit https://forumgdi.rcaap.pt/12forumgdi/

The first RDA in Europe Annual Summit will take place on the 18th of November 2025 in Paris. The event is an RDA Europe initiative, co-organised and hosted by RDA France and CNRS, and will be co-located with the Annual RDA France meeting on the 17th of November. 

For more Information visit https://www.rd-alliance.org/events/rda-europe-annual-summit/

Please mark your calendars for the EOSC Symposium 2025, the largest and most in-demand event on the EOSC calendar. Organised by the EOSC Association for the second consecutive year, the Symposium will take place 03-05 November in Brussels.

For more Information visit https://eosc.eu/events/eosc-symposium-2025/

This years International Data Week will be held from 13 to 16 October, 2025 in Brisbane, Australia!

IDW takes place every two years and is the leading international conference on research data. It is jointly organised by the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA). It combines the RDA Plenary Meeting, the biannual meeting of this international member organisation working to develop and support global infrastructure facilitating data sharing and reuse, with SciDataCon, the scientific conference addressing the frontiers of data in research organised by CODATA and WDS. The Australian Research Data Commons is delighted to be hosting the conference for the first time in Australia.

For more information, visit: https://forschungsdaten.at/en/ostrails-meets-shared-rdm/

OSTrails at OSFAIR 2025 – Join Us at CERN!

This year’s OSFAIR will take place from 15 to 17 September 2025 at CERN in Geneva, under the motto “Fusing Forces – Accelerating Open Science through Collaboration.”

OSTrails will be participating with both a presentation and a booth — a great opportunity to explore our work and key results.

https://www.opensciencefair.eu/

LDK 2025 aims to bring together researchers from across different disciplines concerned with the acquisition, treatment, curation and the use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications. This edition builds upon the success of the inaugural event held in Galway, Ireland in 2017, the second LDK in Leipzig, Germany in 2019, the third LDK in Zaragoza, Spain in 2021, and the fourth LDK in Vienna, Austria in 2023.