Regions – RDA Europe
What we do
The RDA has active communities across Europe that support our mission to advance open research and education, and promote the Outputs/Recommendations developed by RDA Groups to stakeholders throughout the region. In turn, the RDA supports European data communities in overcoming their regional data sharing challenges by finding solutions, fostering intra-European dialogue, and enabling connections to governing bodies such as the European Commission.
The RDA has several Regional Members in Europe. The European Regions contribute to the RDA community’s work by participating in core activities, such as plenaries, Working and Interest Groups, workshops, and the collaborative creation of Recommendations and Outputs. They bring the specific challenges that are unique to each European area to the RDA community and work together with global partners to find solutions to their challenges.
To support these activities, The Research Data Alliance Association (RDA Europe) was set up in 2021 as a regional partner of the RDA.
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Why join the RDA in Europe?
The RDA was launched as a community-driven initiative in 2013 with the vision that researchers and innovators can openly share and re-use data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society.
As an RDA member residing in Europe, you can help the organisation build the social and technical bridges that enable that vision, by collaborating with an international group of data professionals to create, adopt and use infrastructure that will ultimately reduce barriers to data sharing and exchange.
With access to Plenary events, RDA Working and Interest Groups, data-focused initiatives and programmes and more, the RDA delivers a unique international network for knowledge exchange, career development, recognition and innovation.
