FAIR Training and Capacity building

STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT

There is a lot of training and training materials regarding FAIR out there already, for all kinds of users at all kinds of levels (beginners to experts) and all kinds of domains (from health to archaeology).

On this page we want to give you a starting point to find a suitable training for your FAIR needs.

Table of Contents of this page:

Highlighted FAIR training

• FAIR Data to Boost Research & Diagnostic: FAIR Training Program organized by the Duchenne Foundation. Aims of the training:

  • To understand the value and benefits of FAIR

  • To show the participants tangible examples on how to query FAIR data

  • To know what is needed to get started with a FAIR-related project

• In these three videos FAIR experts, researchers and data stewards explain the FAIR principles and how to apply them in practice in a domain independent manner. See the programme for an overview of topics addressed.

Introductions to FAIR

• https://howtofair.dk/ (domain independent)

  Extensive website, introducing FAIR in a structured and concise way.

Training materials on FAIR in Life Sciences & Health

• FAIRplus cookbook

• RDM toolkit

• Pistoia Alliance FAIR implementation resources

• https://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/online/courses/bringing-data-life-data-management-biomolecular-sciences/#vf-tabs__section--gettingstarted

• By Covid resources: https://by-covid.org/resources

• Webinars from the Swiss Personal Health Network: https://sphn.ch/training/fair-principles-in-practice-for-health-data/

Health-RI related content:

• Health-RI you tube

  • Technical details on DCAT AP and FAIR Datapoints

  • DIY FAIR metro line

• Materials from the Health-RI FAIR data stewards basics course: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8116590 (2023)

Resources to find FAIR training events and materials

Firstly, contact local research support staff to learn which trainings are available in your institution

General portals for events and materials

• Search results in Taxila for Dutch courses and materials

• Search results in Tess (Elixir Training eSupport System) on FAIR training

Training materials:

• RDM kit training resources

• The Turing Way (e.g. the videos on DMP’s; ) 

• FAIR Implementation resources available in EOSC

• FAIRsFAIR Training library 

• Overview of trainings in the NPOS report (from page 148) 

Events from data archives & training providers (FAIR and Research Data Management)

• RDNL

• LCRDM DCC Spring training days

• DANS

• UKDA

Resources to develop FAIR training

See:

https://health-ri.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FSD/pages/edit-v2/273580042#Training