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
From November 18 to 20, VPC Data Steward Mikus Melderis attended the Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing, which took place in Tromsø, Norway.
From December 1 to 3, VPC data stewards Kaspars Bērziņš, Mikus Melderis, Kristaps Oškalns and Gita Rozenberga visited Daugavpils University to introduce the basics of research data management and discuss possible regulations for the institution's research data management.
From November 24-26, VPC data stewards Kaspars Bērziņš, Daina Kosīte, Mikus Melderis, Kristaps Oškalns, and Gita Rozenberga visited Ventspils University of Applied Sciences.
Kristaps Oškalns, a representative of the Latvian Data Stewards Network and DataverseLV Repository Administrator, participated in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Symposium, which took place from 3 to 5 November in Brussels, Belgium.
The IEEE VIS 2025 conference was held in Vienna, Austria from November 2 to November 7, 2025. This international research conference discussed the theory and practice of data visualisation
From November 5 to 7, 2025, representatives of the Latvian Data Curators Network, Elza Vecpuise and Nauris Valainis, participated in the Elsevier Impact Conference 2025 and went on an experience exchange visit to NOVA University in Lisbon.
On November 12, 2025, an informative webinar was organised by the Higher Education and Science IT Shared Service Centre (VPC) in cooperation with the Latvian Council of Science (LCS) on the preparation of data management plans
On October 30, the Higher Education and Science IT Shared Services Center (VPC) organised an online seminar on the research data repository DataverseLV – a secure and reliable environment for long-term data preservation, sharing and open access.
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.
