Presented at DRI Members Forum, 6th March 2019 by Timea Biro, Project Manager at DRI. Overview of DRI activities under the remit of the Research Data Alliance Europe 4.0 project and current funding calls open to early career researchers, data experts and domain ambassadors.

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Timea Biro
Project Manager, RDA at DRI
t.biro@ria.ie
Research Data Alliance and
opportunities for funding

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Introduction to the Research Data Alliance
THE RESEARCH DATA
ALLIANCE
www.rd-alliance.org
building the social and technical bridges that
enable open sharing of data
30 FLAGSHIP OUTPUTS
of which 4 ICT Technical
Specifications
75 ADOPTION CASES
across multiple disciplines,
organisations & countries
101 GROUPS WORKING ON GLOBAL DATA
INTEROPERABILITY CHALLENGES
of which 35 WORKING GROUPS
& 66 INTEREST GROUPS
7,980 INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS FROM 137 COUNTRIES
67,5% Academia & Research
14,1% Public Administration
12,8% Enterprise & Industry
49 ORGANISATIONAL MEMBERS &
8 AFFILIATE MEMBERS
 RDA Europe, the European plug-in to the Research Data
Alliance (RDA)
 International volunteer based organization with more
than 7,980 members globally representing 137 countries
 Researchers, scientists and data science
professionals working in multiple disciplines, domains and
thematic fields and from different types of organisations
across the globe.
 focused on reducing the barriers to data sharing and
exchange, and accelerating data driven innovation
worldwide

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What does RDA do?
Working and Interest Groups:
 to exchange knowledge & share discoveries
 discuss barriers and potential solutions
 explore and define policies
 test as well as harmonise standards
Tackle numerous infrastructure & data sharing challenges related to:
❖Reproducibility
❖Data preservation
❖Best practices for domain repositories
❖Legal interoperability
❖Data citation
❖Data type registries
❖Metadata
❖and so many more!
Enhance and facilitate global
research data sharing & re-use

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Why and how to get involved?
Individuals
Drivers
Contributors
Observers
Organisations
Insight
Adopt
Drive
National level
RDA IE National node
Strategy & Implementation
Coordination
 Members
 WGs-IGs-BoFs
 Requests for Comments
 Plenaries
 Members
 WGs-IGs-BoFs
 RfCs
 H2020 projects
 Adoption / Uptake
 Papers & Events
 Meetings & Fora
 Training & Workshops
 Uptake pilots
RDA EU 4.0 cascading grants for individuals & organisations

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RDA Europe
Cascading Grants
Supporting the European
participation to RDA through
grants for new RDA Europe
national nodes, Early Career
researchers and experts (for
plenary support), RDA
Ambassadors, and RDA output-
adoption.

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Early Career Researcher grants
Financial support to Early Career European Researchers
working with data to attend the RDA Plenary meetings.
Who can apply?
❖Applicants currently engaged in Bachelor, Masters, PhD or
Postdoc studies.
❖Applicants conducting studies of relevance to RDA
Recommendations or Outputs and covering at least one of the
Working or Interest Groups.
❖Applicants studying in a higher education or research institution
based in Europe.
CALL FOR ECR AT A GLANCE
Each grant up to 1,750€
Number of grants: 14
Upcoming waves:
❖June - August 2019
❖December - February 2020
Expected outputs:
❖Participate actively in RDA Plenary
meetings

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Data Expert grants
Financial support for European Data Expert or Senior Researchers
to attend the RDA Plenary meetings.
Who can apply?
❖Mid-career or senior data professionals/ scientists who are
active RDA members, participants, chairs, or contributors to a
WG/IG.
❖Influencers engaging collaborators across different data
communities.
❖Part of an active data community with a good understanding
of the European Data Infrastructures landscape.
CALL FOR EXPERTS AT A GLANCE
Each grant up to 1,800€
Number of grants: 10
Two waves:
❖June - August 2019
❖December - February 2020
Expected outputs:
❖Participate actively in RDA Plenary
meetings
❖Disseminate RDA Plenary outcomes

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Domain Ambassador grants
Financial support to become an
RDA Europe domain Ambassador.
Who can apply?
❖Recognised domain experts and skilled communicators.
❖Drivers engaging collaborators across different data
communities, particularly your domain/discipline specific
community(-ies).
❖Part of an active data community with a good
understanding of the European Data Infrastructures
landscape.
CALL FOR AMBASSADORSS AT A
GLANCE
Each grant up to 7,000€
Number of grants: 6
2nd wave:
❖February – May 2019
Expected outputs:
❖Facilitate communication, engagement
and uptake with data practitioners and
organisations in a domain/discipline.
❖Reflect back from data communities to
inform RDA’s future agenda.

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How to apply?
All details on the Open Calls and application forms form are available at
https://grants.rd-alliance.org/
Updates through DRI Friends & RDA Ireland distribution lists
Contact t.biro@ria.ie n.harrower@ria.ie