Shaping the Future of Data Stewardship: Personas, Skills, and Career Pathways [Workshop]
2025-09-02 00:00 - 2025-09-03 23:59 (Europe/Zagreb)
Summary

We warmly invite you to join this interactive RDA (Research Data Alliance) workshop focused on strengthening the professional ecosystem around data stewardship. Together, we will: Co-develop data steward personas to reflect the diversity of roles. Define core competencies and identify training needs. Design a data stewardship curriculum aligned with career stages and domains. Explore sustainable institutional models and career pathways for data stewards.

Description

Our shared goal is to build a common understanding of the evolving role of data stewards and contribute to the development of a professional, well-supported, and sustainable data stewardship community.

Target Audience

Data stewards, research data managers, librarians, data curators

Research policy officers or those designing/careering data steward roles

Participants from the Professionalising Data Stewardship IG and related RDA groups

Location

Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana

Organisers

IEEE International Conference on Cyber Humanities
2025-09-08 00:00 - 2025-09-10 23:59
Summary

The IEEE International Conference on Cyber Humanities (IEEE CH) is an annual event co-sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society. It focuses on theoretical and practical aspects of technologies applied to Social Science and Humanities (SSH) that includes Arts, Heritage, History, Archeology, Linguistics, Libraries, and so forth.

Description

SSH Is now considered as a Critical and Complex Human-Cyber-Physical Ecosystem that need protection, valorization and resilience for the future generations. The conference explores novel concepts, technologies, solutions and applications to along the digital continuum including digitization, curation, protection, reuse and disseminate Digital Cultural Assets. The IEEE CSR 2025 conference will be held in Florence, Italy, during September 8–10, 2025.

Important Dates

Call for papers

Paper submission deadline: April 10, 2025

Authors’ notification: May 2, 2025

Camera-ready submission: May 15, 2025

Early registration deadline: May 20, 2025

Conference dates: Sept 8–10, 2025

Call for Workhsop

Proposal submission deadline: February 28, 2025

(send to emanuele.bellini@ieee.org)

Proponents’ notification: March 2, 2025

Paper submission deadline: April 10, 2025

Authors’ notification: May 2, 2025

Camera-ready submission: May 15, 2025

Early registration deadline: May 20, 2025

Workshop dates: Sept 8–10, 2025For more info: info@ieee-ch.org

IEEE

Open Science Fair 2025
2025-09-15 00:00 - 2025-09-17 23:59
Summary

In an era where global challenges demand collective intelligence, Open Science Fair 2025 will spotlight the power of global, international and cross-regional partnerships in shaping the future of Open Science. True progress requires collaboration that transcends borders, disciplines, and institutions—uniting diverse perspectives to drive meaningful change.

Description

This year’s OSFair will explore how diverse forms of collaboration can accelerate discovery, enhance knowledge accessibility, and create a more transparent and equitable research ecosystem. By fostering open and inclusive cooperation across continents, we can build a stronger, more connected scientific community.

Join us from September 15th to 17th at CERN in Geneva as we come together to co-create the future of Open Science! Whether you’re an advocate, practitioner, or newcomer, OSFair 2025 is your platform to connect and contribute.

Stay tuned for announcements on more specific topics, speakers, sessions, participation and sponsorship opportunities!

Keep up with all OSFair 2025 news and updates on the event’s official Social Media accounts on LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Mastodon.

Who?

OS FAIR 2025 is organised as an emblematic initiative of OpenAIRE, a not-for-profit organisation to ensure a permanent open scholarly communication infrastructure to support European research. This year the event will be co-organised with and hosted by CERN Open Science Office.

What?

OS FAIR 2025 aims to bring together and empower open science communities and services; to identify common practices related to open science; to see what are the best synergies to deliver and operate services that work for many; and to bring experiences from all around the world and learn from each other.

Call for contributions

This year’s Open Science Fair will explore how diverse forms of collaboration can accelerate discovery, enhance knowledge accessibility, and create a more transparent and equitable research ecosystem. By fostering open and inclusive cooperation across continents, we can build a stronger, more connected scientific community.

The OS FAIR welcomes all actors of the research communities and infrastructures, including: librarians, repository managers, content providers, service providers, research administrators, facilitators of research, learned societies, publishers, policy makers and funders, citizen science groups and initiatives, and innovators in scholarly communication.

Read more here.

Conference topics

Fusing Forces – Accelerating Open Science through Collaboration

Cross-cutting themes:

AI in Open Science | Policies for Equity & inclusion

Beyond Compliance: Measuring and Maximizing Open Science Impact

Measuring Open Science impact

Societal and economic benefits

Influence of Open Science for policy change

AI-driven monitoring

Open, but at What Cost? Research Security & Open Science

Balancing openness and security

Dual-use and ethical risks

AI risks in Open Science

Global competitiveness & openness

Trust and governance

Building the Digital Backbone: Open Science Infrastructures

Repositories and metadata

Diamond Open Access

AI-enhanced infrastructures

Sustaining Open Science infrastructure

Federated and national infrastructures

Rethinking Research Assessment

Beyond impact factors

Collaborative assessment models

Open Science & career progression

Policy perspectives on assessment reform

AI in peer review

Open Science for All: Skills & Community

Open Science in education

Training Open Science skills

Community engagement

AI literacy for researchers, support staff, funders

RC33 Eleventh Social Science Methodology Conference
2025-09-22 00:00 - 2025-09-25 23:59
Summary

Registration for the conference will be open from April until June 30th, 2025, to take advantage of the reduced early registration fee, while registrations will definitively close on August 30, 2025.

Description

Event fees: https://rc33.org/11icssm-fee/

Keynote speakers:

Juan Piovani

Juan Piovani holds a PhD in Methodology of the Social Sciences (Sapienza Università di Roma) and a MSc in Advanced Social Research Methods and Statistics (City, University of London). Currently, Juan is coordinator of the Latin American Network of Social Sciences Methodology (RedMet), Full professor of Social Research Methods (Universidad Nacional de La Plata) and Principal researcher of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) of Argentina.

Mike Savage

Mike Savage is Professorial Research Fellow at the LSE’s International Inequalities Institute. He is an expert in the study of social class and inequality, and has pioneered new research methods and innovative data sources throughout his career.

Sophie Woodward

Sophie Woodward is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, the Vice Director of the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) and the Co-Director of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives.

Vera Toepoel

Dr. Vera Toepoel is head of the Methodology Department at Statistics Netherlands. Her work focuses on survey methodology, and innovations in particular. She has been the President of RC33 and the President of the European Survey Research Association.

Nina Baur

Enrica Amaturo

Best paper awards: https://rc33.org/11icssm-awards/Submission deadline: 31. March.
