SSH Open Marketplace & FAIR Practices Training Series 2026

The SSH Open Marketplace Editorial Board is launching an eight-part practical online workshop series in 2026, to strengthen digital skills and FAIR practices in the social sciences and humanities. Every third Friday of the month, from 1 pm to 2:30 pm (CET), the series will focus on open science, good data practices, and the smart use of the SSH Open Marketplace in everyday research. The workshops will run from February to November 2026, with a short break in July and August.

What’s it about?

The SSH Open Marketplace & FAIR Practices Training Series 2026 combines key questions from FAIR, CARE, and open science with practical hands-on sessions around the SSH Open Marketplace as a discovery portal for tools, services, training materials, data, and workflows. The target audience is anyone with an interest in the social sciences and humanities, but especially researchers, data managers, and research services in the SSH who want to make their data and workflows more discoverable, reusable, and connectable—without having to struggle through the multitude of offerings on their own.

Further background information about the SSH Open Marketplace and the editorial team can be found here.

Save the dates

  • February 20: FAIR, CARE & Open Science Principles
  • March 20: Introduction to SSH Open Marketplace
  • April 17: Making the most of the SSH Open Marketplace
  • May 15: Contributing to the SSH Open Marketplace
  • June 19: Thematic Art and Humanties
  • September 18: Thematic GLAM institutions
  • October 16: Thematic language data
  • November 20: Thematic Social sciences

Participation is online, free of charge, and designed for active participation: questions, use cases from ongoing research projects, and insights into your own data sets are welcome in all sessions. If you have resolved to further expand your own digital research practices in the coming year, you can register here to stay informed.

Plan with dates of the workshop series
Workshop series

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