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