National training and community platform for research data professionals

Research Data Netherlands (RDNL) is a national coalition of research supporting organisations with a mission to promote the implementation and long-term sustainability of FAIR research data in the Netherlands: 4TU.ResearchData, DANS, SURF, and Health-RI. With these four partners, RDNL is an expert network combining knowledge, skills and infrastructure across all academic domains. The RDNL ambition is to facilitate the transition to Open Science by promoting the implementation of FAIR data stewardship in all phases of research. The RDNL partners provide training and expertise to help data professionals and researchers navigate the national and international data landscape, to enable them to choose the appropriate data services that meet the requirements of their specific research data. This document is the project proposal submitted in 2024 in response to the offerteaanvraag by NWO for a Nationaal training- en communityplatform voor researchdataprofessionals (Dossiernummer 2023120). The initiative to build a national training and community platform for research data professionals is funded by Open Science NL for the period 2025-2028.