The international workshop that began yesterday in Addis Ababa and continued today featured important studies and presentations focused on Research Data Management (RDM) implementation and Open Science.
The following key topics will be presented today:
1. RDM Implementation and Institutional Capacities
• Moving from policy to institutional implementation: Institutional support staff, RDM services, and infrastructure capacity.
• Institutional experiences: RDM support and Data Stewardship at Hasselt University (Belgium), alongside experiences from Mountains of the Moon University (Uganda).
• Research data lifecycle management and institutional roles for RDM support.
• Panel Discussion: Strengthening institutional collaboration between research offices, libraries, IT units, educational programs, and research leaders.
2. RDM & Open Science Infrastructure: Data Repositories, Metadata, Storage & Access
• RDM infrastructure at Hasselt University.
• AOSP (African Open Science Platform) as an Open Science Diplomacy Platform.
• Researcher perspective: What RDM infrastructure do researchers actually need?
3. Legal, Ethical, and Data Protection Considerations (with DEI)
• Ethics and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) considerations in international research.
• Equitable partnerships for FAIR research data in complex, sensitive research: Key learnings and experiences from the “Drugs & (dis)order” project.
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