Summary

This November, RDA Europe and RDA France will collaborate to stage the inaugural RDA in Europe Annual Summit. The European RDA membership is invited to gather, along with key stakeholders and adopters in the region, to address specific regional challenges, priorities, and opportunities in research data management and open science through the lens of the RDA.

Description

The first RDA in Europe Annual Summit will take place on the 18th of November 2025 in Paris. The event is an RDA Europe initiative, co-organised and hosted by RDA France and CNRS, and will be co-located with the Annual RDA France meeting on the 17th of November. 

Taking place at CNRS, 3 Rue Michel Ange, 75016 Paris, Auditorium Marie-Curie, the event will provide a dedicated forum for current and prospective European RDA regions and their members to address challenges and solutions at both national and pan-European levels, and discuss RDA’s role and priorities within the broader European landscape. It will also offer an opportunity to address key topics relevant to the European RDA community, through the lens of the RDA and to advance its impact across Europe.

With the theme of ‘Weaving the RDA Tapestry: From Community Insights to Collective Action’, the event will deliver a rich programme shaped by RDA European community contributions in the form of lightning talks and posters, as well as a regional roundtable with topics for discussion selected in collaboration with the European RDA regional representatives.

RDA TIGER: One final roar!

The RDA in Europe Summit is supported by the RDA TIGER Project, tasked with supporting RDA Working Groups that concretely align, harmonise and standardise Open Science developments and technologies, with specific focus on WGs that concretely contribute to the European data landscape and the EOSC ecosystem. With the finish line in sight for the project, this event will feature presentations showcasing final results, adoption stories from RDA TIGER-supported WGs, and the project’s impact on data sharing practices in Europe.

Call for contributions

The call for submissions is now open! The closing date (posters, lightning talks and roundtable contributions) is 1 September 2025, 23:59 CEST. Notifications will be issued by 17 September 2025. 

Click here to submit contributions.

We are delighted to invite community contributions in the form of lightning talks and posters. All contributions will be evaluated by the programme committee (see below for details).

There will be two event tracks:

Track 1: RDA regional success stories
We invite poster and lightning talk submissions from European RDA regional representatives to showcase their region’s successes, initiatives and solutions in Open Science.
Example submissions can address (but are not limited to):

• Community building initiatives.
• Use of RDA Outputs to address regional challenges or concerns.
• Lessons learned and shared approaches between regions.

Track 2: RDA in Europe Use Cases
If you, your project, or organisation is using the RDA as a forum to develop research data-related solutions, we want to hear from you! Submissions are invited from EC-funded projects, libraries, research performing organisations, industry, researchers and research infrastructures. Example submissions can address (but are not limited to):

• Use and adoption of RDA Outputs to facilitate solutions developed in an EC-funded project
• Use and adoption of RDA Outputs to address challenges or concerns at an institutional level (including adoption by those who were involved in the original development of the Output).
• Implementation of RDA Outputs in individuals’ workflows.