Data curator Mikus Melderis participated in a five-day training course, R Programming for Statistics and Machine Learning, in February 2026. The course was led by researchers from the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis and focused on the practical application of statistical data analysis
Kristaps Oškalns, a representative of the Latvian Data Curators Network and administrator of the DataverseLV repository, participated in the EOSC Winter School 2026, which took place in Nice, France, at the end of January.
On January 26, 2026, representatives of the Latvian Data Curators Network and the Shared Service Centre (VPC) Mikus Melderis and Artūrs Svarinskis participated in a professional development workshop “Anonymisation and Synthetic Data
On January 28, 2026, a seminar “Ethical Aspects of Research Data Management” was held both online and in person at Rīga Stradiņš University, bringing together more than 350 researchers, academic staff representatives, and industry experts from various institutions.
On January 20, 2026, the Kickstart Cybersecurity Training event organised by the European Digital Innovation Center took place, which was attended by data steward Mikus Melderis
On December 17, VPC data stewards – Kaspars Bērziņš, Daina Kosīte, Kristaps Oškalns, and Gita Rozenberga – visited the Institute of Electronics and Computer Science (EDI) to introduce researchers to the fundamentals of research data management.
On November 14, a seminar jointly organized by VPC and the Latvian Academy of Culture (LAC) took place at the LAC “Gara māja” building.
From November 18 to 22, Rīga Stradiņš University data steward Laura Badūne participated in the Data Science Conference (DSC) Europe in Belgrade, Serbia. The conference brought together industry experts, data scientists ...
From November 17 to 21, the Big Data Conference Europe 2025 took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, which was also attended by five Latvian data stewards: Oksana Zaiceva from Riga Technical University and Ilmārs Dukulis, Ingus Šmits, Jānis Judrups and Nikolajs Būmanis
Representatives of the Latvian Data Stewards Network — Danija Maļceva (University of Latvia), Svetlana Sokolova (Riga Technical University), and Daina Kosīte (VPC) — attended the 17th annual European DDI User Conference
Funding
The website was developed within the framework of the Project No 2.1.3.1.i.0/2/23/I/CFLA/002 “Support for implementing Open Science, developing solutions for shared use of research data, and participation in the EOSC” with financial support from the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility and the Latvian state.
Funding
The website was developed within the framework of the Project No 2.1.3.1.i.0/2/23/I/CFLA/002 “Support for implementing Open Science, developing solutions for shared use of research data, and participation in the EOSC” with financial support from the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility and the Latvian state.
