(Image credit: Unsplash, CC0 license) The AIMS team is happy to announce the upcoming webinar dedicated to the AGORA programme which is one of the four Research4Life (R4L) programmes facilitated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.___________________________________________________________________________________________________AGORA’s main purpose is to improve the ...

School of Data is inviting journalists, civil society advocates and anyone interested in pushing data literacy forward to apply for its 2017 Fellowship and Data Expert Programmes, which will run from April to December 2017. Up to 10 positions are open, with an application deadline set on Sunday, April 2nd of 2017. OK, let's ...

 How can libraries help their research communities implement the FAIR principles? And write better data management plans (DMPs)?  The adoption of FAIR principles within the H2020 funding programme means researchers now have to pay much more attention to how their share, publish and archive their data.___________________________________________________________________________________________________Recently, Europe's main association ...

  (Photo from IGAD Pre-Meeting in Tokyo, Japan, during the RDA P7)The preparations for the IGAD pre-meeting , held on 3-4 April, 2017, in Barcelona – before 9th RDA Plenary Meeting - are in high gear. During the IGAD special event, several IGAD Discussion and Working Groups will present their results on past ...

The Capitalization of Experiences for Greater Impact in Rural Development project  aims to facilitate the adoption of an experience capitalization process in rural development initiatives, where it can help improve the analysis, documentation, sharing, and the adoption and use of lessons and good practices – as an approach for continuous learning, ...