Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2026
2026-06-18 09:30 - 17:00 UTC | 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9LH, United Kingdom
Good Research is Open Research – so what’s stopping us from making research more open? Join the conversation at Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2026
Full Programme – https://library.ed.ac.uk/research-support/eorc2026/programme
This one day conference provides an opportunity for all individuals interested in making research more open and accessible to come together to discuss their challenges, success stories, and next steps.
The ambitious “Recommendation on Open Science” produced by UNESCO recognises the broad scope and impact of Open Research – not just on knowledge production, but also on the world at large. Built around the values of Quality and Integrity, Collective Benefit, Equity and Fairness, and Diversity and Inclusion, the model provides a foundation for a strategic and principled path forward. Over the past year we have begun revamping our action plan and internal model at the University of Edinburgh to reflect this ambitious and expansive scope.
Our new action plan is more diverse and expansive than ever before, and our strategies will build upon this new perspective, taking into account our local context. To celebrate this positive step forward, this year’s conference will therefore delve into the various values, principles, and actions highlighted by UNESCO’s model.
Join the conversation in person in 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh or Online. Our sessions will explore the general principles of Open Research as described in our new action plan, but also zoom in on specific areas, as identified within UNESCO’s model.
Tickets can be booked on the Eventbrite pages:
For IN-PERSON attendance: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edinburgh-open-research-conference-2026-in-person-tickets-1985574269089
To join ONLINE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edinburgh-open-research-conference-2026-online-tickets-1986986380753

Tools for Data FAIRification - overcoming barriers in data discoverability and reuse
2026-06-23 13:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | Online
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by barriers to making data FAIR, but when you realise that others have had the same problems AND have solutions, life feels much better!
Holly Ranger and the N8 CIR group have organised an online seminar titled “Tools for Data FAIRification – overcoming barriers in data discoverability and reuse” will take place on Tuesday, 23 June from 13:00–15:00 (BST) with a focus on practical tools and approaches to improve how research data is managed, shared, and reused in line with FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). Four separate speakers will share their stories and present the solutions they have found to improve their practices.
The programme includes four talks:

Streamlining Data Management Planning – Kryštof Komanec discusses tools like the Data Stewardship Wizard to improve research data management practices.
Maximising Data Reusability – Matthew Nichols explores methods and tools that enhance the discoverability and usability of environmental datasets.
Automated ReadMe Generation – Ali Abdurhman Kelil and Dag-Even Martinsen Torsøe present URGE, a tool to help efficiently generate dataset documentation.
Electronic Notebooks – Zuzanna Zagrodzka highlights how digital notebooks support transparency, reproducibility, and FAIR research practices.

Overall, the seminar showcases practical solutions and expert insights aimed at improving data management workflows and enabling better data sharing and reuse.

ORCID for Researchers webinar
2026-06-30 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Online
Overview
The UK ORCID consortium is running a webinar to promote ORCID more widely across the UK. It is open to all, so you do not need to be a member of the consortium to attend. Find out why getting a free ORCID iD and populating your ORCID record is key for researchers to get credit for their work. ORCID is a free, unique, persistent identifier (PID) for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. Obtaining an ORCID iD and populating your profile helps achieve the vision where all who participate in research, scholarship, and innovation are uniquely identified and connected to their contributions across disciplines, borders, and time.
Your ORCID iD and profile can help you save time and get credit for your work in funding, publishing, and research reporting workflows. Funding organisations, publishers, and research institutions are increasingly requiring or asking for ORCID iDs from researchers.
Workshop Content
In this workshop, we will include:

An overview of the benefits of ORCID for researchers
How ORCID can help you save time across the research landscape
Demonstrate the latest enhancements from ORCID
Show you how to keep your ORCID record up to date
Answer any questions

Target Audience
The target audience includes:

Researchers
Research managers
Participants in research who produce outputs that can be shared
Anyone with a role or interest in:

supporting researchers with impact and dissemination of outputs
research infrastructure and PIDs
researcher digital profiles and presence

Workshop Details
The webinar is free to attend and available to all. It assumes no prior knowledge of ORCID. It will be recorded.

ELIXIR-UK FAIR Contentathon #3
2026-07-01 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | Online
The ELIXIR-UK RDM Club has been awarded a BioFAIR Pathfinder grant for a project called The FAIR-in-action Bridge.
In summary, many UK research-performing organisations have FAIR data policies. Many have guidance documents. What’s often missing is the middle layer: the practical, ready-to-use materials that let RDM professionals in the life sciences turn that guidance into something researchers actually engage with.
The FAIR-in-action Bridge is a BioFAIR Pathfinder project, led by coordinators of the ELIXIR-UK RDM Club, that sets out to fill this gap.
The project will produce two FAIR-in-action playbooks for life science RDM professionals:

How to approach FAIRification: practical activities and templates for FAIRifying data.
How to communicate and advocate FAIR: talking points, FAIR games and advocacy materials for different audiences

Both will be roughly 80% ready-to-use, aggregating open FAIR material in the public domain, with placeholders (20%) for your local context (eg institutional repositories and guidance). Both will be openly licensed and indexed. And both will be tested through one-day in-person rollouts at six UK RPOs.
We’re running three online Contentathons, and we’d love you to join the ones that fit. This third and final Contentathon is a full day event, on how to communicate and advocate FAIR. Hands-on, structured in sections so you can join the bits relevant to you.

UK Reproducibility Network Conference 2026
2026-07-08 - 2026-07-09 | Nancy Rothwell Building, The University of Manchester, Nancy Rothwell Building, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL‎, United Kingdom
Overview
Serving as a platform to convene the research community, drive broader collaboration, and solidify UKRN’s long-term sustainability plan, the UKRN conference will showcase the impact of its core initiatives and engage the research sector community as change agents to improve UK research.
Intended Audience
This conference is aimed at: Research leaders, researchers, policy community, publishers, funders, infrastructure providers, scholarly academies and societies.
Agenda
There are two keynote speakers:

Day 1 (Wednesday 8th July) – Stian Westlake: Stian Westlake is Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). ESRC is the UK’s largest funder of social science and a part of UK Research & Innovation, where he plays a central role in shaping the research environment across UK higher education and supporting innovation in research culture and practice, and leads the organisation’s investments in metascience.
Day 2 (Thursday 9th July) – Charlotte Pennington: Dr Charlotte Pennington is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Aston University. Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. As an experimental social psychologist, Charlotte’s research focuses on how people’s complex social environments impact upon health and wellbeing.

The rest of the conference programme can be found here: https://www.conference.ukrn.org/programme/
Conference Dinner
The conference dinner will be held nearby at Manchester Metropolitan University. Dinner will include a welcome drink, a 3-course meal with drinks, followed by tea and coffee. Please register for the conference dinner as you purchase your conference registration – Menu confirmation and a meal pre-order form will be sent to you following your dinner registration.
Accommodation

Marketing Manchester Convention Bureau is the official accommodation booking provider for the UKRN conference, suppling a range of accommodation options for the duration of the conference. Please note, options are limited and offers may change in the lead up to July.

FAQs
A list of answers to questions can be found on the Conference FAQs page.
About UKRN
UKRN is a national peer-led consortium that aims to ensure the UK community produces world-leading research. We do this by investigating the factors that contribute to robust research, organising training, and disseminating best practice. Our members are a grassroots research advocate community, institutions committed strategically to improvements, and stakeholders across the wider research system.

DPC: iPRES 2026 Great Digital Preservation Bake Off
2026-09-21 - 2026-09-25 | CPH Conference, CPH Conference, DGI Byen,, Copenhagen, 65, 1704, Tietgensgade, Denmark
Calling all technical whisk-takers; the iPRES 2026 Ad Hoc Programme is now open!
There are several categories available in the AdHoc programme, including The Great Digital Preservation Bake Off, which returns to iPRES 2026 (September 21-25 in Copenhagen). Whether you’re a seasoned baker or a first-timer, we want to see your tools in action.
This year, we are recruiting for two tracks: the Signature Home Bake and the Showstopper Pro Bake. The submission deadline is June 8th, 2026. Submit via: https://forms.gle/K2WiG81RWB5E75hi9.
Participants will demonstrate how their tools address real-world challenges in digital preservation. Both seasoned and emerging tool developers have the opportunity to serve up and demonstrate the value and effectiveness of their digital preservation tools in a short, timed presentation. Please note that there is no actual baking at the Bake Off.
Submit your Bake Off proposal via the online form by 8 June 2026, End of Day, Anywhere on Earth.
Open Kitchen Hours – Come Ask Us Anything!
Not sure which track is right for you? Curious about the Pantry? Just want to know what on earth a Showstopper Pro Bake actually involves? Join us for Open Kitchen Hours on May 22nd. This is an informal, drop-in Zoom session where the organising committee will be on hand to answer your questions.
We’re running two sessions to accommodate different time zones:

For ACST/NZ timezones: Register here
For US/EU timezones: Register here

No need to prepare anything – just bring your questions (and maybe a snack).
NB: Presenters must be registered for iPRES 2026

Fellowship of the Data – International RDM Community Meeting 2026
2026-09-21 - 2026-09-22 | University of Vienna, Hauptgebäude, Universitätsring 1, Vienna, 1010, Austria
Overview
The Fellowship of the Data — International RDM Community Meeting 2026 will take place on September 21 and 22 at the University of Vienna. Two Meetings have taken place in Germany already (2023 and 2025) with each ca. 80 participants from diverse backgrounds. Now, we continue the series: Let’s get together in Vienna and cultivate our supportive environment dedicated to the advancement of RDM!
Continuing the spirit of 2025: “The Fellowship of the Data is fueled by enthusiasm for Research Data Management (RDM) and networking. Founded by RDM trainers and data stewards, we want to offer an open space for everyone with aligned interests that fosters our community bonds and allows us to find peers from many different contexts and scientific disciplines. We believe in the power of collaboration and knowledge sharing. By exchanging resources, learning from each other’s experiences, and forging synergistic teams, we can learn how to better support researchers and stakeholders alike”.
The goal of our third RDM Community Meeting is to boost the fellowship of like-minded professionals who assist researchers across various fields in their RDM efforts, whether through training or other means. Keynotes and times for focused exchange were selected carefully to provide us with a program full of relevant and engaging content.
We are excited to learn from our international keynote speakers and to take home practical insights to improve our portfolio!
Agenda Summary
We offer opportunities for exchange on and exploration of topics around RDM support along with poster sessions as well as keynotes and a panel discussion chosen to instigate further reflection and networking.

Day 0: Pre-Event Socializing
Day 1: Lobbying, Negotiation, and Shared RDM Services + Posters
Day 2: Burnout Prevention, 3 parallel Workshops, Panel

Every Day: Fun!
Target Audience
Everyone who is (interested in) supporting and promoting Research Data Management!

We invite everyone who is involved with RDM training, supporting researchers in their RDM, has a position called Data Steward, Data Manager, Data Curator, RDM Professional, RDM Officer, or all the other titles the community encompasses.
Everyone who is interested in the job(s) of this field and our agenda is also very welcome.

All disciplines welcome!

Our programme is tiered towards everyone who supports / promotes RDM for scientists and researchers from all disciplines.

International

We aim to foster exchange across borders. We explicitly invite attendance and contributions from community members outside of Austria and Germany.

Registration & Conference Fee
Registration is open until August 31st! To help cover catering costs for the conference, we kindly request a participation fee of 120 EUR from all attendees. Thank you for your understanding and support!
Call for Posters
We invite poster contributions until June 15th! Submit here: https://datafellows.univie.ac.at/programme/call-for-posters#c7744

International Digital Curation Conference: IDCC27
2027-02-09 - 2027-02-12 | Lisbon, Portugal
Overview
The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) is an established annual event with a unique place in the digital curation community, reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in curating data and providing an opportunity to get together with like-minded data practitioners to discuss policy and practice.
The 21st edition of the International Digital Curation Conference(IDCC27) will take place in Lisbon, Portugal from 9 – 12 February 2027. The main theme of the conference is ”FAIR DO’s: Centring People in the Stewardship and Curation of Digital Objects.” The FAIR principles emphasise machine actionability, but the increasing integration of artificial intelligence systems into data infrastructure carries the risk of marginalising people in the planning, management, and practice of digital curation. The theme of this year’s conference acknowledges the crucial role of people in making digital objects FAIR.
Submissions are now open for papers, lightning talks, posters, demos and workshops. Full information is available on the conference website!
Who should attend?
All those involved in the curation and stewardship of data and related roles.
About DCC
The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) is an established annual event with a unique place in the digital curation community, reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in curating data and providing an opportunity to get together with like-minded data practitioners to discuss policy and practice.
