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Over the past year, we have dedicated considerable effort to training activities, delivering more than 150 hours through online and in-person courses and departmental meetings. This has been a significant commitment for us, but above all a rewarding experience, made possible by the interest, participation, and openness you have consistently shown.

We sincerely thank you for the curiosity with which you engaged in the initiatives we proposed, for the time you chose to dedicate, and for your active contribution to dialogue and knowledge sharing. We hope that the content and tools presented will be useful and relevant to your research activities.

And of course, our training activities do not stop in 2026: new courses are already scheduled, and the updated calendar is already online; see what’s coming next and enroll here!

We also take this opportunity to wish you a pleasant holiday season and a new year full of opportunities, collaboration, and positive developments in research.

On November 27 and 28, our data stewards will be participating in the pivotal 5° meeting of the CIDS (Comunità Italiana dei Data Stewards) – where data management, data stewardship, Open Science & FAIR principles meet!

💡 The theme of the meeting is “A Network of Networks”, a dialogue with other communities and associations to strengthen collaborations and synergies among those working with data and open science. The event is reserved for members of the Community only: if you’d like to join, register with CIDS by sending a brief introduction of yourself to the mailing list at data-stewards@lists.icdi.it.

For more information, check out the following link and the group photo here!

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Don’t miss the opportunity to gain new skills and strengthen your ability to manage research outputs in accordance with the FAIR principles and Open Science practices by joining our courses:

• in this section, you can find detailed information and the registration form for the monthly webinars dedicated to using Dataverse and developing Data Management Plans.
• you can also find here the schedule of the practical and discipline-specific workshops on research data management designed for early-career researchers.

We look forward to welcoming you to our upcoming sessions and to becoming part of a growing community committed to the FAIR management and sharing of research data.

Our data stewards – together with the colleagues from the Milano University Press – will be partecipating in the PUBMET2025! The 12th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science, which is set to take place at the University of Zagreb from September 11–12, 2025. Their presentation is entitled “On Open Practices and Quality Standards of Research Data in Dataverse UNIMI (with a Focus on SSH Disciplines)” and it has been deposited on Zenodo: check out more at the following link https://pubmet2025.unizd.hr/conference-programme/

New guidelines out now! We are pleased to announce that our data stewards have produced new guidelines for depositing and sharing data on Dataverse UNIMI dedicated to authors who publish books and journals with the Milano University Press, the University’s fully diamond open access publishing house.

More details here: https://rdm.unimi.it/dataverse-unimi-guidelines-for-milano-university-press-authors/

Today our data stewards took part in the training offer of Data Analysis, Management and Modeling for Earth Sciences of the PhD School in Earth Sciences with a seminar dedicated to open science and FAIR research data management. A wonderful occasion to discuss these topics with PhD students.

Brochure and more info here: https://sites.unimi.it/phdearthsciences/training-offer/

Having doubts about the use of Dataverse? Not sure about how to structure your DMP? Want more information on the research data management trainings available?

At this link https://rdm.unimi.it/dedicated-support/, you can both find the different e-mails available for contacting us depending on the preferred type of assistance or get in touch with us by booking online support call with us on MS Teams!

Appointments can be booked every Friday between 14 and 15.30, and are open to maximum 3 people a day. Once you have booked your preferred time slot, the data stewards will be back at you via e-mail to communicate the MS Teams link and further information.

UNIMI’s data stewards are delighted to announce the publication of the RDM checklist on Zenodo to support researchers and the academic community in the proper management of research data. It highlights 19 steps for effectively planning, collecting, analysing, preserving and sharing research data; also providing useful insights, best practices and resources.

Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15465239