You are warmly invited to the next FRDN Knowledge Hub Community Day, taking place on Thursday 29 October 2026 at Meise Botanic Garden.

Delivering RDM Support in Practice

How do we deliver effective RDM support, and where do we still encounter challenges? This Community Day will explore both perspectives. During the morning, community members will showcase concrete approaches, tools, workflows, and support formats that are already being used in practice. In the afternoon, participants will work together on challenging real-world cases, exchanging ideas and approaches for situations that do not always have straightforward solutions.

We look forward to welcoming you for a day of learning, discussion, and networking with colleagues from across the Flemish RDM and Open Science community.

We are grateful to Meise Botanic Garden for hosting this event.

Kind regards,

The KH Programme Committee

Registrations close Tuesday 27/10 at 13:00.

Programme

9:00	Doors open: arrivals and welcome coffee
9:30 – 9:50	Check-in and brief community updates
9:50 – 10:30	Project Group Open Science for Researchers Key insights from the literature review Introduction to upcoming deliverables and resources Discussion and feedback
10:30 – 11:00	Project Group Machine-Actionable DMP Introduction to the project group's objectives and activities Discussion and feedback
11:00 – 12:30	Featured topic – session 1 How We Deliver RDM Support (and What You Could Try Too) Four community members share RDM support tools, approaches, and lessons learned from their institutions. Niels Geudens (VIB) on VIB's new research planning tool Jone Paesmans (VUB) on the use of research group-level DMPs Maria-Rose Eves Down (INBO) on INBO's newly developed eDNA workflow Jolien Berckmans (UHasselt) on organising hands-on RDM support sessions
12:30 – 13:00	Lunch
13:05 – 14:00	Free tour of Meise Botanic Garden
14:05 – 15:30	Featured topic – session 2 Interactive Workshop: How Would You Handle This? Community members will briefly introduce a selection of challenging topics and cases drawn from their own practice. Participants will rotate between discussion tables to share thoughts and potential solutions. In a plenary session, we will collect key takeaways. Automating RDM processes: when do we need data engineers? (sketched by Veerle Van den Eynden, UHasselt) Crediting Data Contributors & GDPR (sketched by Katrina Exter, VLIZ) Use of AI tools for analysing or processing personal data (sketched by Jone Paesmans, VUB)
15:30 – 16:00	Forward-looking exercise and closing remarks

 

Getting there

Address: Nieuwelaan 38 - 1860 Meise

You can easily reach Meise Botanic Garden by De Lijn buses. Line R50 (Brussels-North - Meise - Londerzeel) stops right in front of the main entrance (stop Plantentuin Meise). There is a bus service every 15 minutes on weekdays.

More info here.

 

About our Community Days

The Knowledge Hub Community Days are small-scale community events we organise three times per academic year. They provide an opportunity for data stewards and other professionals working in research data management, Open Science, and related fields to exchange experiences, discuss emerging topics, and learn from one another.

Participation is open (and free) to all members of the Knowledge Hub Basecamp community and to colleagues active within the FRDN network.