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.
Taking place at CNRS, 3 Rue Michel Ange, 75016 Paris, Auditorium Marie-Curie, the event will provide a dedicated forum for current and prospective European RDA regions and their members to address challenges and solutions at both national and pan-European levels, and discuss RDA’s role and priorities within the broader European landscape. It will also offer an opportunity to address key topics relevant to the European RDA community, through the lens of the RDA and to advance its impact across Europe.
With the theme of ‘Weaving the RDA Tapestry: From Community Insights to Collective Action’, the event will deliver a rich programme shaped by RDA European community contributions in the form of lightning talks and posters, as well as a regional roundtable with topics for discussion selected in collaboration with the European RDA regional representatives. Dr. Francoise Genova of RDA France will deliver the keynote speech: ‘RDA France: Liaising with and Supporting the French Plan for Open Science and the RDA’.
RDA TIGER: One final roar!
The RDA in Europe Summit is supported by the RDA TIGER Project, tasked with supporting RDA Working Groups that concretely align, harmonise and standardise Open Science developments and technologies, with specific focus on WGs that concretely contribute to the European data landscape and the EOSC ecosystem. With the finish line in sight for the project, this event will feature presentations showcasing final results, adoption stories from RDA TIGER-supported WGs, and the project’s impact on data sharing practices in Europe.
Objectives
- Regional Alignment: To align RDA’s activities with EU policies and regional data initiatives.
- Showcasing European Achievements: To highlight success stories, projects, and impact case studies of RDA interest and working groups within Europe.
- Addressing Regional Challenges: To identify and tackle region-specific challenges.
- Strengthening Networks and Collaboration: To enhance connections among European data professionals, policy makers, industry partners, and researchers, and foster a stronger European RDA community.
- Setting the Future Agenda: To identify and prioritise future data initiatives, standards, and practices that can support European science and innovation.
✍️ Your Feedback is Essential
To ensure future Summits continue to best meet the needs of our community, we highly value your feedback.
If you attended the RDA Europe Summit, we kindly invite you to take a few minutes to complete our short survey. We would love to hear your views on the organization, content, and what you would like to feature in future summits.
Preliminary Programme
The programme below is provided as a guideline and is subject to change.
| Time | Programme | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 17 November 2025 | ||
| 18:00 – 20:00 | Welcome reception Hosted by CNRS/RDA France. Register to attend here. | |
| 18 November 2025 | ||
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration & coffee | |
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Objectives of the meeting & Welcome from RDA Europe and local hosts | Alex Delipalta (RDA Europe) Francoise Genova (CNRS, RDA France) |
| 09:15 – 09:45 | RDA France: Activities, Successes and Impact | Francoise Genova (CNRS, RDA France) |
| 09:45 – 10:15 | RDA TIGER: European impact & adoption | RDA TIGER Impact in action (Alex Delipalta, RDA Europe) Mapping of RDA Outputs to the SRIA (Liise Lehtsalu, RDA Europe) Mapping of RDA Outputs to the European project landscape (Nina Grau, CODATA) Mapping of RDA Outputs to National Open Science Policies (Hilary Hanahoe, RDA Foundation Secretary General) The RDA KB and its contribution to the landscape report as a use case (Wim Hugo, DANS) Concluding remarks (Alex Delipalta, RDA Europe) |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Morning coffee & networking break | |
| 10:45 – 11:45 | RDA in Europe in practice: Success stories from RDA Regions (Lightning Talks Track 1) Chair: Liise Lehtsalu (RDA Europe) 10:45 – 10:55 The Hellenic Open Science Initiative (HOSI); Fotis Karayannis & Elli Papadopoulou, Athena Research Center 10:55 – 11:05 Towards national data infrastructure for materials science and engineering domain with the RDA’s help; Marek Cebecauer, MATECH WG EOSC CZ, Heyrovsky Institute 11:05 – 11:15 RDA in Slovenia; Ana Inkret, Slovenian Social Science Data Archives 11:15 – 11:25 RDA Germany Association – an Introduction; Christoph Bruch, RDA Germany Association 11:25 – 11:35 NFDI & RE3DATA, Robert Ulrich & Charlotte Neidiger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 11:35 – 11:45 Q&A | |
| 11:45 – 12:45 | Networking Lunch & poster exhibition | |
| 12:45 – 13:45 | Bridging international and regional initiatives panel Topic: Setting the Future Agenda: Bridging international and regional initiatives | Chair: Hilary Hanahoe (RDA) Panellists: Volker Beckmann (French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space (MESRE) Julien Roche (LIBER) Anca Hienola (Finnish Meteorological Institute) |
| 13:45 – 14:00 | Split into groups for the regional roundtables and move to the assigned rooms. | |
14:00 – 15:00 | Regional Roundtables: The RDA in Europe Summit will hold five parallel group discussions centred on National Open Science concerns, based on the analysis carried out by RDA Secretariat in the context of the RDA TIGER project. The discussion will be split into the following parallel roundtables: Group 1: Ethics, Legal Issues Room: B211 Collaborative notes document Group 2 Research Data Management, Data Sharing, Data Standards Room: Auditorium Collaborative notes document Group 3 Impact assessment (Societal, economic, academic), Community engagement Room: D214 Collaborative notes document Group 4 Transparent Methodology (software), Verification methods Room: F106 Collaborative notes document Group 5 Open Access policies, Repository Systems Room: F402 Collaborative notes document | |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Afternoon coffee & networking break | |
| 15:30 – 16:40 | RDA in Europe in practice: RDA Use cases stories across Europe (Lightning Talks Track 2) Chair: Alex Delipalta (RDA Europe) 15:30 – 15:40 RDA and the FAIR-IMPACT: three years of fruitful exchange in ten minutes; Ingrid Dillo, DANS 15:40 – 15:50 The OSTrails Project; Elli Papadopoulou, Mark Wilkinson; Tomasz Miksa; Marek Suchanek; Diamantis Tziotzios Athena Research Centre 15:50 – 16:00 From BoFs to Impact: Building Global Infrastructure for Non-Traditional Research Outputs through RDA; Andrew Hoffman, Leiden University, NL (CADS/CWTS); Jenny Evans (Westminster, UK); Adam Vials Moore (Independent, UK); Robin Burgess (ARDC, AU) 16:00 – 16:10 Using the RDA MaLDReTH model to Design Workflow-Centric Research Infrastructure; Tilo Mathes, ResearchSpace 16:10 – 16:20 DataShare and DataVault Requirements Review: a Case Study; Robin Rice & Ianthe Sutherland, University of Edinburgh 16:20 – 16:30 The Building Immune Digital Twins (BIDT) Working Group, Anna Niarakis, Toulouse University, Center for Integrative Biology 16:30 – 16:40 Q&A | |
| 16:40 – 17:00 | Closing remarks by local hosts and RDA Europe | RDA France, RDA Europe |
Posters
| Poster title | Presenter name(s) | Organisation |
| Operationalising FAIR and Secure Data Sharing in Europe: The EOSC-RAISE and RAISE Suite Approach | Anastasia Valtopoulou, Evdokimos Konstantinidis | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| We Needed This, So We Built It: Agape as a Grassroots Open Science Collective for Early Career Researchers | Aswathi Surendran | University of Galway |
| Building Machine-Actionable DMPs through Interoperability and Standards: The Transformation of DMP OPIDoR | Benjamin Faure | Inist-CNRS |
| From Connections to Community: How RDA-NL is Shaping the Future of Research Data in the Netherlands | Margriet Miedema and Kim Ferguson | LCRDM/DANS/RDA-NL |
| Advancing Semantic Interoperability in Heritage Science: The FAIRMap4ART Project and the INFRA-ART Spectral Library | Ioana Maria Cortea | National Institute for Research and Development in Optoelectronics |
| FIDELIS, the European Network of Trustworthy Digital Repositories | Ingrid Dillo | DANS |
| Augmenting AI Policy: An Interactive Exploration of Regulation, Agency, and Responsibility | Freyja van den Boom | Antwerp University |
| FAIR Data Publication Services for Disciplinary Support: RADAR in the German NFDI Context | Kerstin Soltau | Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure |
| Empowering FAIR Data and Software in the Social Sciences and Humanities: The Dutch TDCC-SSH Initiative | Nicole Emmenegger | DANS |
| Advancing Open Science and Data-Driven Agriculture: The Work of the Association for Farmers Rights Defense (AFRD) Georgia | Kakha Nadiradze | AFRD Georgia |
| FedOSC: Belgium’s Federal Open Science Cloud – Connecting Institutions for FAIR and Open Research | Annerose Tartler-Ostrizek, Judith Biernaux | FedOSC Belgium / Royal Institute for Natural Sciences |
| From FAIR to FAIR²—The Next Frontier in AI‑Ready Open Data | Sean Hill, Cristina Gonzalez | Senscience |
| The RDA/AI Futures Dérive | Freyja van den Boom | Antwerp University |
Regional Roundtables
In the context of the RDA TIGER project and the upcoming deliverable ‘Landscape Analysis on the Value of RDA Outputs to EOSC’ due for release at the end of 2025, RDA Secretariat drafted a preliminary interactive online resource that maps RDA groups, recommendations, and outputs to European national Open Science policies, demonstrating how the RDA’s community-driven approach addresses specific strategic needs across Europe. The mapping identifies areas where the RDA effectively supports national Open Science policies and future opportunities to strengthen the European research data landscape, and the draft is available here.
Based on this work, we have selected the top 11 policy areas most frequently occurring across the European policies analysed to be discussed at the event. This discussion will take place across five parallel roundtable discussions aiming to address how each region approaches each priority area and associated challenges, facilitating learning and cross-fertilisation across and between RDA regions.
Roundtable Format
Each session will take the format of interactive discussion. A chair will facilitate the conversation, and a rapporteur assigned from the organiser committee will support the running of the meetings, with discussions feeding into the final landscape report on the value of RDA to EOSC and beyond, due to be released by the end of 2025. The theme of each roundtable is outlined below:
Roundtable 1: Ethics, Legal Issues
Roundtable 2: Research Data Management, Data Sharing, Data Standards
Roundtable 3: Impact assessment (Societal, economic, academic), Community engagement
Roundtable 4: Transparent Methodology (software), Verification methods
Roundtable 5: Open Access policies, Repository Systems
The questions to be addressed during the session are as follows:
- Significance: To what extent do these topics play a role in your day to day work, in your institution and its priorities, or in your research discipline and other communities you are involved in?
- The role of RDA: How do you address these topics, and do RDA Outputs, Recommendations or other resources play a role in how you address them? What more could RDA do to help address these challenges?
- Landscape: What initiatives currently underway within countries or cross-regions can be supported by RDA?
- Future: How can RDA support lessons learnt between regions in Europe? How can regions replicate successful initiatives?
The discussions will feed into a post-event report, as well as the final landscape report on the value of RDA to EOSC and beyond, due to be released by the end of 2025.
Collocated event: EDEN & FIDELIS Bootcamp
The EDEN-FIDELIS Bootcamps align with the support and training mechanisms of both projects to ensure participation of existing and aspiring trustworthy digital repositories and ensure the adoption of practices related to trustworthiness and FAIR principles.
The target audience for this event will be project members but also third parties that are interested in the objectives and outcomes of our projects. We therefore encourage you to participate to gain further understanding of the work we are conducting and to potentially provide your feedback!
Registration is now open for the 1st EDEN/FIDELIS Bootcamp! Deadline for registration have been extended to Thursday, 13th November.
In this first of three bootcamps, the focus will be primarily on the EDEN project, showcasing work that is being done on core preservation processes, the first iteration of specifications and architecture, and disciplinary requirements and needs and the relationship between the networks being established by the EDEN and FIDELIS projects.
Please note that these topics are provisional and subject to change with a finalised agenda to be published soon.
Relevant Details for the 1st Bootcamp :
Date/time: 19/11/2025 0830-1230
Location: L’Atelier, Paris – a short walk from the RDA Europe Summit at CNRS.
Programme Committee
Chair
- Alexandra Delipalta, Director, RDA Europe
Members
- Hilary Hanahoe, Secretary General, RDA
- Connie Clare, Community Development Manager, RDA
- Laurence El-Khouri, Deputy Director of the Scientific and Technical Information Department (DIST), CNRS
- Francoise Genova, (former) Director of the Strasbourg astronomical data centre CDS, CNRS Emerita Researcher at Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory
- Athina Papadopoulou, Science Officer, RDA Europe,
- Isabelle Debano, Coordination Officer, DDOR CNRS
- Daniel Bangert, Director, 4TU.ResearchData
Leave your feedback
The 2025 RDA in Europe Annual Summit marks the first community event for RDA Europe. We consider it a pilot opportunity to learn, grow, and better serve the European RDA community. We warmly welcome your feedback, reflections, and suggestions to help shape the future iterations. Whether you are a participant, contributor, or regional representative, your input is invaluable in ensuring that this annual gathering becomes a meaningful and impactful forum for the European RDA network.
