The 'How to write a Data Management Plan (DMP) workshop' is a cross-disciplinary, hands-on workshop lasting 3 hours. Participants learn about the basics of data management, how this is reflected in their data management plan, and how to complete the Leiden University data management plan template; they leave the workshop having worked on their own data management plan.

This 2-hour course introduces the basics of copyright and open access, to help researchers avoid pitfalls and make full use of their rights as authors and scholars. Topics include publishing agreements, creative commons, funders' open access requirements, and publishing in the Scholarly Publications repository.

Courses on programming, text mining, and data analysis in Python. The courses consist of four to five half-day sessions, either online or in-person.

Two- to three-hour workshops on how to make your data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR).

A 2-hour workshop on publishing your data so that it is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). It is possible to bring your own dataset.

The Data Carpentry courses are two-day workshops on fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Topics include working with spreadsheets, data wrangling with OpenRefine and R, and data visualisation with R. The workshops take place in Leiden or Delft.

We regularly organise additional, one-off training workshops, as standalone workshops but also as part of the DCC Spring Training series or CDS Summer Training Week. Keep an eye on our calendar and web pages, or contact us by email at cds@library.leidenuniv.nl, to find out more.

These sessions are most frequently aimed at PhD candidates. They are designed in collaboration with the faculty- and institute-based data stewards, and often managed through the Graduate School. You can find more information here.

These master or bachelor student stand-alone lectures occur in collaboration with, and on request of lecturers. Please contact us at cds@library.leidenuniv.nl for more information.

Each year in June we organise a week full of training workshops, lectures, and other events on all aspects of digital scholarship. You can expect topics like open access & publishing, FAIR data, and creating interactive maps, and much more. For details, see for example our 2025 version.

Monthly presentations on data management topics followed by time for questions and discussion. Organised by and for the Leiden University Research Data Management Community. The Connect & sessions mostly take place online.

To give you an idea of the type of events you can expect from us, past events included a symposium on AI and Academic Publishing and an OSNL-funded workshop 'Reusing Data: Bridging the distance between data consumers and producers'.