This year’s HZDR Data Management Days will take place from Tuesday, 11 November (1 p.m.) to Wednesday, 12 November (3 p.m.), featuring a mix of lectures and interactive workshops.
The programme on 12 November is only for internal participants.

In the context of advancing digitalisation and an ever-increasing need for reproducibility,  this year’s event will focus on the data and software management landscape in general and at HZDR in particular.

HZDR colleagues will share insights into typical challenges in data and software management and present practical solutions developed in their daily work.

On 11 November, the lectures will be held in a hybrid format and are open to external participants. Lasers4EU partners are warmly invited to join the online sessions.

A session of particular relevance for the Lasers4EU community will address data management planning using RDMO (Research Data Management Organiser). As funding agencies increasingly require Data Management Plans (DMPs) defining how data and metadata are handled during and after projects, the HZDR instance of RDMO, accessible via Helmholtz ID, supports collaborative preparation of DMPs, even with external partners.

Within this context, the Lasers4EU project serves as a potential use case for tailoring generic DMP questionnaires to specific needs, distinguishing between questions for proposing scientists, access-providing facilities, and repository providers. The session will therefore be of direct interest to Lasers4EU partners involved in data management, access coordination, and research infrastructure development.

For more information and the full programme, please visit HZDR Data Management Days 2025