Would you like to learn about RDM, develop your data literacy skills or learn more about the legal aspects of handling research data? Then you’ve come to the right place. In our training calendar you will find all the workshops that FAIRagro (co-)organizes, as well as training courses from other organizations that we would like to recommend to our community.
What Participants say:
“Attending the FAIRagro and de.NBI workshop on research data management and FAIR principles was an excellent experience, was an eye opening for me […] I now feel much more confident implementing FAIR-compliant workflows in my future research and contributing to open, collaborative science in plant biology and bioinformatics.”
Abdul Saboor Khan, Biozentrum, University of Cologne
Kickstart Your Data Publication: A Hands-On Guide to Life Science Repositories
Start publishing your agricultural research data here and now: this interactive workshop explains the FAIR data ecosystem approach, demonstrates powerful search tools and offers hands-on insights into German research data repositories such as BONARES, PANGAEA and e!DAL-PGP. In breakout sessions, you will learn about the repositories and their publication processes.
Sophie Boße (Training Coordinator FAIRagro), Wahib Sahwan and Marcus Schmidt (Helpdesk FAIRagro)
Seasonal School on Data Management in Biodiversity and Environmental Science
Acquire in-depth Research Data Management knowledge in just one week!
This seasonal school is designed for researchers in Biodiversity and Environmental Science.
Lea Singson, FAIRagros’ “legal eagle” and data steward, will offer a session on legal issues.
Lea Singson, lawyer, FAIRagro
Legal Workshop Series: Data protection on a silver platter
It’s all about the GDPR (DSGVO) – what is it, what does it want, do I have to comply with it and if so, how do I deal with it?
Lea Sophie Singson, Laywer, FAIRagro und
Sophie Boße, Training Coordinator, FAIRagro
PANGAEA Community Workshop 2026: “FAIR data publications with PANGAEA”
This series provides user-oriented training on the services offered by PANGAEA, with a focus on modern research data management practices, following the principles of FAIR², sustainable publication and long-term archiving of scientific data. Participants will also gain a deep understanding about how to discover and integrate relevant data into their research workflows.
Organizer: PANGAEA
Registration via PANGAEA
Participation free of charge
Language: English
Past Trainings
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Training: RDMO in Practice: Building Data Management Plans for Agricultural Research
This interactive online workshop teaches participants how to create data management plans for agrosystem research using the DMP-tool RDMO (Research Data Management Organizer. Using the FAIRagro template, key DMP components such as data types, metadata and legal aspects are introduced and directly applied to participants’ own projects in a series of hands-on sessions.
Training: From Field Data to FAIR Data: How to Manage Your Agrosystem Research Data
Agroecosystem researchers will explore the full data lifecycle—from field collection to FAIR publication—actively discussing challenges and exchanging solutions. This interactive workshop equips early-career scientists with tools, best practices, and strategies to manage, share, and increase the impact of their research data.
You can find the video and the materials on zenodo.
Legal Workshop Episode III: The license to research: Who owns research data and what am I allowed to do with it?
An interactive workshop on copyright and licenses in the provision and re-use of research data and the question of what good scientific practice has to do with all this.
The workshop will be held in German.
Please register on our German page.
Training: What to do with my agricultural research data?
Shortly before project completion and suddenly the question arises: what actually happens to my research data? In this workshop, you will receive a compact overview of the organisation and use of data throughout the entire research process – including key aspects, tools and services for a smooth project completion.
This workshop is aimed specifically at researchers at all qualification levels at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG) at Forschungszentrum Jülich.
CARE-ing about Indigenous Data in a Wide World
In this workshop we will discuss Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Governance, and Ethics and how to apply the CARE Principles to your work. We will look at practical case studies around claimed indigenous data and look for relationships between them and your research.
Joseph Gum, ESIP Sustainable Data Management Cluster
Legal Workshop Episode II: Nagoya | Beyond Borders: Genetic Resources & Benefit-Sharing
Do you work with non-human biological material or genetic digital data? If so, you need to understand the basics of the Nagoya Protocol and your obligations as a researcher in the European Union.
Amber Scholz & Melania Muñoz García (DSMZ & NFDI4Biodiversity)
Here you can find the materials.
Legal Workshop Episode I: Data protection on a silver platter
It’s all about the GDPR (DSGVO) – what is it, what does it want, do I have to comply with it and if so, how do I deal with it?
Lea Sophie Singson, Juristin, FAIRagro and
Sophie Boße, Trainingskoordinatorin, FAIRagro
The workshop was held in German. Here you can find the materials.