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In the ever-evolving landscape of research data management, the availability of high-quality training materials is crucial to motivate and support researchers, data professionals, and institutions. This meeting aims to explore existing training materials in RDM, celebrate their contributions, and connect them to previous task group work by utilising the minimal metadata set for learning materials and the core characteristics for providers. We will also identify gaps for future development and focus on learning objectives specific to disciplinary data, ensuring comprehensive and effective training.

 We can achieve this together through:

• Showcasing and celebrating existing education and training materials on research data management 

• Connecting materials to previous task group work by utilising the minimal metadata set for learning materials 

• Engaging participants in identifying gaps in available training materials 

• Developing learning objectives tailored to disciplinary data for improved training outcomes based on existing generic learning objectives

Starting with an introduction to the ETHRD-IG and welcoming of the new co-chairs, we would like to focus on the importance of training materials in RDM and their impact on learning outcomes. We invite the community to showcase their training materials and to share their experiences in describing them while publishing it in repositories.

Part 1 (20 min): Welcome

• Introduction and welcome of the new co-chairs  (5 min)

• overview of current work and future plans, goals for this meeting (10 min)

  • Skills4EOSC / FAIR by Design (3 min)

  • Goals for this meeting (2 min)

• Renew: Call for new co-chairs  (1 min)

• Questions. (3 min)

Part 2 (60 min): Showcase of training materials

1. 2-4 presentations (á 5 min – 20 min)

2. Group work: (20 min)

   1. Introduce to tool of choice for the exercise

   2. interactive activity where participants describe their training materials using the minimal metadata set for learning materials

   3. Encourage participants to reflect on their contributions and discuss challenges they faced while creating or using training materials.

3. Facilitate discussions on the challenges and requirements unique to various disciplines. (20 min)

   1. What about extended metadata, 

   2. What is missing in material usability, topic, audience / target groups

Part 3 (15 min): Next steps

• Deriving from group report outs, identify potential future areas of work

• Confirm commitments to next steps

• Align around goals for P22.

This meeting will be of benefit to: 

• those directly involved in teaching and training data skills

• policy developers working on increasing capacity and enabling data skills

• projects and initiatives focused on data related skills development

• funders with similar requirements

• librarians working with research data

• representatives from Higher Education Institutes

• repository administrators and developers

• metadata architects