Wrapping up your research project

When you’re about to wrap up your research project, it's best to carefully consider your future plans with the most valuable output, which is the research data. Most funders and institutions – including Hasselt University – nowadays require that data is archived in a high-quality or FAIR manner, and even made publicly accessible, unless certain legal, contractual, or practical restrictions prevent this ('as open as possible, as closed as necessary').

To enable you to meet these requirements, this workshop will introduce you to the institutional and legal framework concerning data sharing, the numerous existing data archives or 'repositories,' the various possible ways to share your data, and the methods to protect your open data by, for example, applying access control and licenses.

Learning outcomes

After attending this training, participants can ...

• identify and apply the key requirements for research data archiving and sharing set by major funders, publishers, and Hasselt University;
• assess legal, ethical, contractual, and intellectual property considerations to determine whether and how research data can be shared or published.
• archive and publish research data following a step-by-step FAIR data workflow, while complying with relevant institutional, funder, publisher, and legal requirements.
• use and navigate major data archive registries, selected research data repositories, and the UHasselt Metadata Repository for Research Data to deposit research data effectively.

Competences

An important part of preparing for any further professional step is becoming (more) aware of the competences you have developed and/or want to develop. In the current workshop, the following competences from the UHasselt competency overview are actively dealt with:

• Cluster “problem-solving”
  • Decision-making
• Cluster “information”
  • Analysing
  • Judgement
  • Innovation

For whom?

• Researchers
• 20 places available

When and where?

• November 12, 2026 - 10:00-12:00
• campus Diepenbeek, building D, room E141

Registration?

• Register here.
• You will receive a calendar invite with all practical information for this course approximately one week beforehand.
• Please cancel your registration at least one week in advance in case you cannot make it by sending an email to rdm@uhasselt.be (cf. cancellation policy).

Acknowledged by Doctoral Schools?

• DS Sciences & Technology: acknowledged as 'Research management' - course/workshop at developing general research skills.
• DS Behavioral Sciences & Humanities: acknowledged as 'Research management & communication skills' - course/workshop aimed at developing research (management) skills.
• DS Health & Life Sciences. For PhD students of the Doctoral School of Health & Life Sciences, a combination of different sessions (adding up to a half/full day) can be acknowledged together as (half) a transferable skills course.
• The training will be added automatically to the doctoral portfolio of the PhD students who signed the attendance list.