RDA Europe (https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-europe continues its series of
support programmes for data researchers and practitioners and is now
running two Open Calls to facilitate participation of 7 RDA Early Career
Researchers and 5 Expert RDA members to the 12th RDA Plenary meeting in
Botswana.
The second edition of International Data Week (IDW 2018) will be held
on 5-8 November 2018 in Gaborone, Botswana bringing together data
professionals and researchers from all disciplines and from all parts of
the globe.
Co-organized by the ICSU World Data System (WDS), the ICSU
Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) and the Research
Data Alliance (RDA), this landmark event will address the theme of ‘The
Digital Frontiers of Global Science’ and will combine the 12th RDA
Plenary Meeting, the biannual meeting of the research data community,
and SciDataCon 2018, the scientific conference addressing the frontiers
of data in research.
RDA Europe has opened two Call for grant applications designed to
facilitate the participation of Early Careers and Expert European RDA
members to the upcoming Plenary meeting:
RDA Europe is seeking applications from *students and early career
professionals* from higher education or research institutions with
studies focusing on research data sharing and exchange challenges. The
Early Career support programme will offer up to *seven grants of maximum
€1750*. To view all the call details and apply please visit
https://grants.www.rd-alliance.org/OpenCalls/call-early-careers
The RDA Plenaries are working events built around the RDA Working Group
(WG) and Interest Group (IG) meetings. If you are *a mid-career or
senior data professional or scientist*, interested or already committed
to RDA activities you can apply for one of *five grants of maximum
€1800* to support your participation to the Plenary meeting. To find out
more visit https://grants.www.rd-alliance.org/OpenCalls/call-experts
*For both Open Calls, application period closes on the 30 August 2018,
17:00 CEST and applicants will be notified of the outcome on the 21
September 2018.*
For futher information contact [email protected]