How will Europe ensure that the ever-increasing amounts of research data being generated are exploited to its advantage? What tools can researchers draw upon to share data and break cross-disciplinary boundaries, paving the way for new discoveries?

For the past three years, BSC (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), in collaboration with EUDAT project partners across Europe, has been working to provide solutions to these questions by creating a collaborative data infrastructure. Drawing the results of this work together, EUDAT’s third conference, to be held in Amsterdam from 24-25 September, offers an ideal opportunity to find out about the pan-European services that are supporting the data revolution. With the theme “Bringing research data infrastructures to Horizon 2020”, the conference, co-located with the Research Data Alliance’s fourth plenary meeting, will also explore overarching themes of crucial importance in the creation of a thriving data economy, such as open access, legal issues, funding models and sustainability of data infrastructures.

As David Vicente, User Support Manager at BSC and EUDAT WP3 leader, explains: “The third EUDAT conference will bring together the leading users and providers of data infrastructure to shape future developments. As well as presenting the latest updates on EUDAT's services, the conference will examine some of the key issues around data infrastructure, preservation and sharing.”

Working closely with researchers, the project has created a suite of data services – the B2 family – which collectively enable European researchers and practitioners from any research discipline to find, store, share, replicate, compute, preserve and process data, allowing them to carry out research effectively. The involvement of research communities from the early stages has allowed the creation of user-friendly services which meet real-life needs.

Conference participation is free of charge, but subject to registration via the EUDAT website.

All interested parties are invited to showcase research activities and results at the Poster Session, taking place at the networking cocktail on 24 September. To submit a poster proposal, complete the form on the EUDAT website.