Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to the WiNoDa Online Winter School 2025, a five‑day, interactive programme designed to build practical data skills for researchers, curators and students working with natural science, archaeology and biodiversity collections.

About the Winter School

Dates: 24–28 November 2025 (online)
Organisers: German Federation for Biological Data (GFBio), Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN), German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and the Vernetzungs‑ und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg (VuK), in cooperation with NFDI4Biodiversity.
Goal: To provide a comprehensive introduction to research‑data management for object‑related datasets, covering the full data journey from data collection and standards to enrichment and publication
Format: Expert lectures and hands‑on sessions across biodiversity, palaeontology, archaeology and related fields.

What you will learn

Participants will work with real collection data and learn to:

Apply the FAIR data principles and meet data‑quality standards.
Navigate and harmonise diverse collection databases, including understanding data types, standards and persistent identifiers.
Enrich and visualise datasets and manage them efficiently using SQL.
Understand how open data and the data economy drive innovation : reuse of existing datasets saves time and money, avoids duplication of experiments and allows researchers to draw new insights without repeating costly data collection.

Practical details

Registration: Please register via our event page: https://events.gfbio.org/event/66/.
Deadline: Registration is open until 15 October 2025
Capacity: Participation is limited to 30 people, there is no fee
Language: English

We encourage interested researchers, curators and students to apply early and join us for this unique opportunity to expand their data‑management skills and explore the value of data reuse. If you know colleagues who might benefit, please share this invitation widely across your networks.

For questions or further information, feel free to contact the WiNoDa Knowledge Lab team (winoda@gfbio.org).

We look forward to welcoming you online in November!

Best regards,

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Dr. Maureen F. Atemkeng

WiNoDa (Knowledge Management and Helpdesk Support)

GFBio - German Federation for Biological Data e.V.
Unicom 2, Haus 2-4
Mary-Somerville-Str. 2-4
28359 Bremen
Germany

E-Mail: mfatemkeng@gfbio.org
Phone: 0421 37703686
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