ELIXIR-CONVERGE D2.2 Report on the ready-to-use training materials for usage and rolling-out in Task 2.3

Research data Management (RDM, also used interchangeably with Data Management/Data Stewardship, abbreviated as DM/DS) is central to the implementation of the FAIR (Findable Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and Open Science principles. Recognising the importance of RDM, the ELIXIR-CONVERGE project was launched in 2020 and included a work package on Training & Capacity Building in Data Stewardship, in which 21 Nodes participated. The aim of WP2 is to build a comprehensive, interconnected and sustainable RDM Training Portfolio across all Nodes, and to increase the DM/DS training expertise and capacity in ELIXIR Nodes. This is accomplished by unlocking the expertise in the ELIXIR Nodes, and building on and aligning with their national needs and strategies towards RDM Training. In the project period (Feb 2020 - June 2023) training materials were developed, belonging to 133 training events, which were organised by 18 Nodes and served 4226 participants. In this deliverable an overview is presented of the developed training materials and other supporting training-related activities during the project period. The project started with a training gap analysis (D2.1), with the aim to understand the demand of topics that are needed for development across the Nodes. This yielded four priority topics: Data Management Plans (DMPs), FAIR, Reproducibility and General DM/DS. Nodes contributed to the development of materials for the topic(s) of their choice and need. In addition training-related activities were performed in collaboration with WP5 (Demonstrators), WP3 (related to RDMkit) and the ELIXIR Training Platform (related to TeSS, Learning Paths and Train-the-Trainer). Finally, training-related activities were undertaken in the two WP2 Uplift projects: CoP (Community of Practice) and ELITMa (ELIXIR Training in Management). With WP1, there was a strong collaboration with the WP1 data managers network to strengthen implementation of training efforts in the Nodes and with the dedicated WP1 training group. To support all these activities groundwork has been done related to identifying common vocabularies to annotate the training products properly, to register and annotate WP2 outcomes in TeSS, to establish training links between TeSS and RDMkit, and to establish the Your Role pages in RDMkit, based on the ELIXIR/NPOS data stewardship competency framework. Going forward the outputs of CONVERGE WP2 will be embedded and sustained in the ELIXIR Training Platform, coordinated by the ELIXIR RDM Trainer Network, which is an integral part of the new ELIXIR RDM Community