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Dear RDA Plenary 15 Registrants,

It is hard to believe that in less than three weeks, we will be together in beautiful Melbourne, Australia. According to our local hosts, the weather is wonderful, as is the programme itself. We are extremely excited and grateful to all of you for making the commitment to travel to this amazing city and attend Plenary 15 (P15).

We do want to ensure you that both the P15 Organising Committee and the RDA Secretariat are actively monitoring the outbreak of COVID-19. Although we understand there may be concerns related to travel as a result of this evolving situation, please know that your safety is a top priority and that we are working closely together to ensure a safe event.

In this news-item we look back on the P14 adoption & outputs session and invite you to join co-chairs, adopters and use-case project leads at the networking areas of the P15 edition.

Earlier this month, the RDA-US office received approval from the National Science Foundation for a grant submission titled “Research Data Alliance Ideate Incubator (RDA-I2): Conceptualizing an Interdisciplinary Research Framework for Strengthening Community Impact and Advancing an Innovation Platform.” The objectives of the proposal are to further the work of the US office by:

The Plenary 15 programme covers 7 breakout sessions for a total of 66 meetings to be held from 18-20 March 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. View the session descriptions for all of these meetings, as well as review the side meeting and plenary session schedule. More details related to co-located events, keynote speakers and remote access information will be added in the coming weeks.