Deutsch The new Data Train training program organized by the U Bremen Research Alliance starts in January 2024 and is now open for registration. Data Train is a cross-disciplinary graduate training program and a core element of the NFDI4Health training approach.
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The NFDI4Health Steering Committee met to define the objectives for 2024 and discuss the 2nd application phase during a two-day retreat last week in Göttingen. It was an inspiring exchange with innovative results.
The digital transformation and the increasing importance of health science data are challenging our society. It is essential to equip everyone involved in health research with the skills to handle and understand datasets and thereby enable them to make informed decisions. A handbook on training concepts on research data management in health research published by NFDI4Health provides new methods and approaches.
The International Data Week was hosted by the University of Salzburg from 23 to 26 October 2023. The event brought together international researchers to discuss the opportunities and frontiers of data in research. NFDI4Health presented the relevance of data stewards and training concepts in data management to build a FAIR infrastructure in health research.
About 15.000 participants attended the World Health Summit in Berlin from 15 to 17 October 2023. The global conference brought together renowned stakeholders from politics, science and society to discuss strategies for a healthier global future. NFDI4Health joined the session “Global Health Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics” and met Adrian Burton from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC).
This year's Special Topic Conference (STC) of the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI) took place in Turin from 25 to 27 October 2023. The EFMI working group “FAIR data in Health Research Performing Organizations” and HL7 Europe hosted the workshop "Discussing FHIR implementations with regard to the FAIR data principles". NFDI4Health presented the FHIR implementation of its metadata schema.
This year’s DataSHIELD Conference took place from 11 to 13 October 2023 and was organized by the University Medical Center Groningen. The beginners' workshop and the conference attracted about 60 participants from various European research consortia. NFDI4Health made a strong presence as 4 of its members joined and engaged in discussions on privacy-protecting and FAIR analysis of health science data using the software DataSHIELD.
