Area B: Action line B 5.2 Data Stewardship

Action Line B5.2 of the ORD Action Plan aims to promote data stewardship at all higher education and research institutions. Data stewardship involves managing and monitoring of an organization's data holdings with the goal of enabling access to to research data. As such, it is the link between researchers and support entities in the form of IT, libraries, and infrastructure providers. Data stewards serve as the first point of contact for all questions regarding (open) research data, e.g. data backup, long-term storage or data management.

• Target Group: The call is open to all institutions eligible for funding.
• Funding Duration: until the end of 2024
• Call for proposals: July 1, 2022 - October 1, 2022.

Institutions are invited to describe their ideas and intentions for building up data stewardship at their institution in the form of a (short) action plan.

Dr. Andrea Malits, Head Open Science Services, University Library is responsible for the data stewardship dossier at UZH.
The Open Science Services team is working together with the Open Science Office and the Center for Reproducible Science to develop the action plan required by swissuniversities.
Researchers or institutions interested in collaboration are welcome to contact Dr. Andrea Malits.