Research Data Day 2026 - Support. Share. Collaborate.

Research Data Day 2026 will take place on 10 November 2026 at LUMC. Register now and discover how different types of data, from healthcare data to research data, can contribute to innovative scientific research.

Details

  • Location
    LUMC, Boerhaaveplein, route 573
  • Organiser
    LUMC-DCC

Description

Research Data Day is an annual event for everyone who works with research data or provides research support, both within and outside LUMC.

The theme of Research Data Day 2026 is "Support. Share. Collaborate."

During this event, researchers, data professionals, and support staff come together to exchange knowledge and experiences related to research data and Open Science. You will learn about best practices for collecting, managing, sharing, and reusing data for scientific research.

The program features an information market where you can explore a wide range of tools, services, and support opportunities. You will also have the opportunity to meet LUMC experts who support researchers in various aspects of scientific research.

In the afternoon, you can participate in interactive sessions addressing current data challenges and practical solutions.

Who Should Attend?

This event is intended for anyone who wants to learn more about the use of healthcare data in scientific research and discover the expertise available within LUMC to support research, ranging from preclinical and translational studies to clinical research.

Whether you are an early-career researcher, an experienced scientist, a data professional, or provide research support at any stage of the research lifecycle, this event is for you.

We welcome participants from within and outside LUMC, including colleagues from healthcare organizations, research institutes and other (regional) partner organizations interested in healthcare and research data.

Register now using the registration form.

Preliminary Program

9.30 – 10.00

Opening

10.00 -12.00

Data Day market – Boerhaaveplein, LUMC

 

 

Meet LUMC experts and research support services, and explore the support and data tools available to researchers;  

 

 

Discover internal, regional, and national initiatives focused on collaboration, data (re)use, and Open Science.

12.00 – 13.00

Lunch – Boerhaaveplein, LUMC

 

 

Registration for parallel sessions is open until 13.00 hours. While there is ample capacity overall, places in popular sessions may fill up quickly.

 

13.00 – 16.00

Interactieve parallelsessions – Multiple locations, Hoofdgebouw, LUMC

Support.

Best practices in data stewardship and digital skills

13.00 – 13.45

Towards professionalization and community building of LUMC research data professionals.
Tessa Jacobs van Goethem (LUMC-ADM)

Are you a data professional involved in support, tooling, quality control, policy or governance of research data? Then join this session to discuss new HRM function profiles for data stewards and shape new communities with peers.

14.00 – 14.45

From raw data to a data package: organizing your research data.
Paula Ramos-Silva (LUMC-ADM)

 

Learn how to organize and document research data throughout the research lifecycle. Through hands-on exercises, you will create data packages that prepare data and other research outputs for archiving, publication, sharing, reproducibility, and future reuse.

15.00 – 15.45

From Study to FAIR Data Point: Piloting Machine-actionable Metadata Publication.
Anna Niehues (LUMC-ADM) & LUMC-DCC FAIR Implementation Community

 

Discover how metadata flows from research database to the LUMC FAIR Data Point. We showcase the workflow, tools, and current implementation of the Health-RI metadata schema for FAIR data discovery and EHDS readiness.

Share.

European Health Data Space

 

13.00 – 13.45

The EHDS – an introduction by Health-RI 
Merlijn van Rijswijk (Health-RI)

 

The European Health Data Space (EHDS) framework will impact the access to health data across the European Union. You will receive an EHDS introduction.

14.00 – 14.45

EHDS in the LUMC
Charlotte van der Vos (LUMC-ADM)

 

The European Health Data Space (EHDS) framework will impact the access to health data across the European Union. You will learn more on the preparations in the LUMC and Leiden region.

15.00 – 15.45

Sustainable models for data availability under the EHDS.
Rick Overkleeft (4Medbox)

 

The EHDS gives many new opportunities, one of them is the ability to have a sustainable model for datasets residing within your organization. This presentation will give a brief insight into the possibilities.

Collaborate.

Open Science – data access, data sharing, data reuse.

13.00 – 13.45

Pre-Award Consortium MANagement – PACMAN
Emanuela Lonardi (LUMC –DO&V; team CoCo)

 

PAC-Man (Pre Award Consortim MANagement) is Team CoCo’s support service for LUMC-led consortium grant applications. It provides tailored advice or full proposal coordination, covering budgeting, governance, consortium alignment, compliance, and timely submission of grant applications.

14.00 – 14.45

From consulting room to dataset: doing research with ELAN

Aidan Kloots (LUMC-PSY)

ELAN holds routine healthcare data from1.6 million people in South Holland. Learn what the data contain, what research they enable, what makes them unique, and how to get started yourself.

15.00 – 15.45

Opal: an open-source web-based data warehouse.
Lars van der Burg & Laurent Paardekooper (LUMC-ADM)

 

Opal is an open source web-based database application, that can be used as a data warehouse for research data, serving as a central place to bring together, store and share research data.

16.00 – 18.00

Netwerk drinks – De Stal (between LUMC en Naturalis)

 

 

Meet and connect with fellow participants in an informal setting, and continue the conversation about the insights learned during Research Data Day.  

Questions

If you have questions about this event, contact LUMC-DCC.

This event is sponsored by Open Science NL.