project partner events

February 12, 2026
ELIXIR-UK RDM Club: Open and sustainable AI – models and datasets as key assets
The UK RDM club (run by our wonderful project partners ELIXIR-UK) is a monthly meeting held over zoom on the first Tuesday of every month, with a focus on ELIXIR-UK activities that help people manage their life science research data. They welcome participation from data stewards, support staff and researchers interested in Research Data Management (RDM) in the life sciences. In this RDM Club Call, Gavin Farrell (ELIXIR Ireland), a contributor to ELIXIR’s AI Ecosystem Focus Group work, will introduce the concept of Open and Sustainable AI (OSAI). Grounded in the ELIXIR Europe Machine Learning Focus Group work that culminated in the 2025 preprint Open and Sustainable AI: challenges, opportunities and the road ahead in the life sciences, the talk presents nine OSAI guidelines for ensuring AI datasets and models can be reused and reproduced while also supporting environmental sustainability.
February 11, 2026
CaSDaR at the Love Research Data event at the University of Oxford 
On the 11th February 2026, Samantha Pearman-Kanza and Louise Saul attended the in-person Love Research Data event at the University of Oxford, held in the Sheldonian Theatre. The CaSDaR team were delighted to be invited to give a presentation introducing our work to the community at Oxford. Also present were representatives from the Trusted Research Environments Software Stewardship, LabArchives, the Bodleian Library, and the AI Competency Centre amongst others. Attendees were introduced to the teams responsible for delivering Oxford’s Research Data Management services and platforms, as well as those contributing to best practice across the wider UK research sector.