Date: 7 July - 17 November 2025

Timezone: Lisbon

Duration: 3 days

BioData.pt is organising the 2025 edition of its Training for Life Sciences Data Stewards, a practical course designed to support data stewards in managing, curating, and sharing life and health sciences data.
The programme combines online and face-to-face sessions, including project-based learning activities. Participants will explore topics such as vocabularies, data workflows, FAIR principles, and data sharing using platforms like GitHub, Dataverse, and Beacon.
The course is limited to 32 participants (2 per BioData.pt member institution).

Location: Online (Sessions 1 & 2), Porto (Session 3)

Course overview

Session 1 — July 7, Online

  • Introduction to the course and the Data Lifecycle
  • Collect
    • Vocabularies and the Ontology Lookup Service — Pedro Barros (ITQB NOVA)
    • Electronic Lab Notebook administration and advanced usage — Carolina Ventura Costa (CIIMAR)
  • Process & Analyse
    • Version control using git, Ricardo Leite
    • Workflow management tools, Francisco Pina Martins (ESTB/IPS)

Session 2 — TBC, Online

  • Catch-up and presentation of projects done by students
  • Nonsensitive data sharing
    • Dataset curation
    • Data repository administration
  • Sensitive data sharing
    • Usage of FEGA and Beacon

Session 3 — Face-to-face at All Hands meeting, Porto

  • Professionalising Data Stewards
  • Data Management Plans
    • Evaluating FAIRness
    • DMP feedback
    • Funder open science policies
    • Institutional policies

Within the scope of PNCADAI: Measure RE-C05-i08 - More Digital Science of the PRR - Recovery and Resilience Plan

Contact: info@biodata.pt

Keywords: Data Steward, Data Management, Data Management Plan, Open Science, Version Control, Git, Ontology, Data curation, FAIR, Policy, Data Stewardship

Venue: Online and in Porto

Prerequisites:

Basic Research Data Management skills or completion of the Ready for BioData Management? Intensive course

Organizer: BioData.pt

Host institutions: BioData.pt

Eligibility:

  • First come first served

Target audience: Researchers, Lab managers

Capacity: 32

Event types:

  • Workshops and courses

Cost basis: Free to all

Sponsors: PRR - Recovery and Resilience Plan

Scientific topics: Data management, FAIR data, Version control, Ontology and terminology, Data curation and archival, Open science


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