Dear NFDI4Microbiota community, Happy new year to all of you! We are looking ahead to the year 2023 under the motto "Community Engagement". Today we would like to point out some event and training highlights : · Love Data Week 2023<https://forschungsdaten.info/fdm-im-deutschsprachigen-raum/love-data-week/> 2023-02-16, 15:00-17:00, in person (University of Bremen) with zoom option During this international action week, we participate in the panel discussion 'Wind of change - sharing is caring! How to improve research data and its benefits in the Life Sciences'<https://nfdi4microbiota.de/news/2023-01-13-lovedataweek2023> with NFDI4Biodiversity, NFDI4Health and DataPlant at University of Bremen. · NFDI4Microbiota world café on Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) 2023-02-24, 10:00 - 12:00, online To identify the needs of the German microbiology research community on Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs), we are organizing a world café on 2023-02-24 10:00 - 12:00. After an introduction, we will discuss topics such as General Needs, Interoperability, Ergonomics and Processes & Workflows. Ultimately, we would like to help the microbiology sub-communities to select and implement an ELN in their research group. To participate, please register here<https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqceyppjwpHdRHg7uF7AqPb6Yxq4Phq3fL>. · Workshop: Mapping the crosstalk of heterologous ECF sigma factors to the host genome 2023-02-20 - 24 08:00 - 16:00, in person and online 2023-03-06 - 10 08:00 - 16:00, in person and online Five places available for attendance + online participation, more details<https://nfdi4microbiota.de/training/training>. Our third newsletter will be shared with you in the end of January with news from our consortium. Kind regards Barbara Götz --- Barbara Götz, M.Sc. Microbiology Project manager NFDI4Microbiota goetz@zbmed.de<mailto:goetz@zbmed.de> www.nfdi4microbiota.de<http://www.nfdi4microbiota.de/> Twitter: @nfdi4microbiota<https://twitter.com/NFDI4Microbiota> Reachable: Mon.-Thu. 7:30 AM - 4 PM; Fri. 7:30 AM - 2 PM ZB MED - Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften Gleueler Straße 60 50931 Köln www.zbmed.de<http://www.zbmed.de/> INFORMATION. WISSEN. LEBEN.