Dear all, NFDI4Biodiversity and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) present the fourth Seasonal School on Data Management in Biodiversity and Environmental Science *from 5 to 9 October 2026.* Registration is open (until 30 August 23:59 CEST): www.nfdi4biodiversity.org/de/events/seasonal-school-2026/ *Participants will learn*... * How to create a data management plan * How to use Jupyter in combination with R (and Python) as working environment and Quarto to create reproducible content * How to integrate and clean data from different sources * How to set up reproducible workflows for data processing and analysis * How to publish data according to the FAIR principles * ... and about legal aspects of handling and sharing data The course is held online, in English, and participation is free of charge. Please note that spaces for our Seasonal School are limited. Priority will be given to members of the iDiv Graduate School and to doctoral researchers from NFDI4Biodiversity partners, but participants from all institutions are welcome to apply. You can find further information on prerequisites and course details here: https://nfdi4biodiversity.org/de/events/seasonal-school-2026/ Please forward this announcement in your networks! Best regards, Juliane -- Dr. Juliane Röder Projektmitarbeiterin | Project assistant NFDI4BioDiversity Task Area 1 Measure 4 – Education and Training www.nfdi4biodiversity.org Philipps-Universität Marburg Servicezentrum digital gestützte Forschung www.uni-marburg.de/eresearch HeFDI — Hessische Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen www.hefdi.de Biegenstraße 36 35032 Marburg Tel.: +49 6421-28-25022 juliane.roeder(a)uni-marburg.de Röder, J. (2026, February 13). NFDI, NFDI4Biodiversity & eResearch support your research data management. open_UMR. https://doi.org/10.17192/openumr/534 Röder, J., Signer, J., Scherreiks, P., Figueiredo, L., Kusch, E., Linares Gómez, J., Müller, W., Nozik, A., Schellenberger Costa, D., Scherer, C., Schindler, U., & Tschink, D. (2025). Template for the NFDI4Biodiversity & iDiv Seasonal School on Data Management in Ecology and Environmental Science 2024 (1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15585748 Röder, J. (2025). A (very brief) introduction to research data management. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15641467 Röder, J., Frohne, K., & Tschink, D. (2024). Research Data Scary Tales—Biodiversity Edition. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.14237417 Fischer, M., Röder, J., Signer, J., Tschink, D., Weibulat, T., & Brand, O. (2023, 2024). NFDI4Biodiversity Self-Study Unit - Research Data Management for Biodiversity Data. LiaScript course. https://github.com/NFDI4Biodiversity/nfdi4biodiversity-sle Ilias course. https://ilias.uni-marburg.de/goto.php/crs/3219917 Text. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10377867 Import files Ilias & Moodle. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17582795