From March 12 to 14, 2025, the E-Science-Tage 2025 will take place both online and in person in Heidelberg. The motto of this iteration is "Research Data Management: Challenges in a Changing World"!
Registration is possible until February 23rd, 2025!
The E-Science-Tage are an interdisciplinary conference series on the topics of research data management and open science - with a wide range of opportunities for professional exchange between science and technology.
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Research Data Management: Challenges in a Changing World
Research, especially in light of digital transformation, needs a coordinated environment. This includes powerful infrastructures and tools that will ensure the management, backup, and storage of research data over its entire life cycle and enable the data to be easily shared with research and education communities. Against this background, the E-Science-Tage 2025 provide an exchange platform for the development of this constantly changing and evolving environment environment and are therefore aimed in particular at the infrastructure. However, interested researchers are also very welcome - after all, close cooperation with the scientific community is essential, to be able to develop infrastructures and services in line with demand.
At the same time, technological and (geo-)political developments pose challenges for research and RDM actors, making this type of coordination more difficult. Artificial intelligence offers researchers great opportunities, but it is also a Herculean task. For example, budget cuts affect the development and provision of research data infrastructures, and the temporary lack of transparency and ongoing delays regarding the Research Data Act make planning more difficult. Against this background, the conference offers an exchange on these and other challenges in the areas of research data management and research data infrastructures. We are also looking forward to an exchange on how these developments can be tackled as sustainably and profitably as possible.
Conference program
The diverse and varied programme ensures that you can get the most out of the E-Science-Tage for yourself and your needs. Knowledge transfer, dialogue, networking - there is something for everyone.
Please note the following information on the hybrid organisation of the event: only some of the events listed below will be broadcast online. Event formats that will be streamed online in real time and allow interaction are keynote talks, the panel discussion, the presentation panels and the lightning talks (the latter will not allow interaction from the online audience). Event formats that will NOT be broadcast online in real time are workshops and the poster session. Please note this when booking.
Regular Presentations
Presentations on research data management and open science, e.g., presentations on technical challenges, the solutions developed for them, and their concrete implementation.
Tandem Talks
Joint presentations by infrastructure managers, researchers and/or cooperation partners from industry on RDM-related concepts, developments, and services on the one hand and needs and benefits from this cooperation on the other.
Lightning Talks
Short, maximum five-minute presentations on projects, challenges, and key points in research data management.
Poster-Session
Offers the opportunity for networks, initiatives, infrastructure facilities, and e-science projects to present themselves based on a poster.
Workshops
Workshops provide space for exchange on specific services, tools, or projects, focus on interaction, and are heavily based on audience input.
Podium Discussion
Discussion among experts on a current, relevant topic from the field of e-science and research data management.
These (and other) current issues will likely be discussed during the conference
- What challenges arise when ensuring data quality and how can they be addressed?
- What challenges arise when publishing data?
- What opportunities and challenges does artificial intelligence bring for research data management?
- What challenges do the latest (geo-)political developments bring with them and what consequences can be drawn from them?
- How can the balancing act between cross-institutional recommendations for action and potentially conflicting circumstances of individual institutions be managed?
- How can additional financial or work-related requirements arising from RDM-related requirements be dealt with and how can this be achieved with (new) business models?
- In keeping with the conference's motto: What challenges does research data management have to face and how can they be addressed?
The Host
The E-Science-Tage are organized by the project bwFDM in cooperation with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the University of Konstanz and University of Heidelberg.
The E-Science-Tage is funded by the Ministry for Sciences, Research and Arts of Baden-Württemberg (MWK).
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