Will you win the Dutch Data Prize 2020?

Photo: The winners of the Data Prize 2018 from left to right: Bas Heijmans, Roland van Rijswijk-Deij and Stijn Heeren. Credits: Bart van Vliet.

On the 18th of November 2020 the Dutch Data Prize will be awarded to a researcher or research group who makes extra contributions to science by making research data available for (additional) research. In order to win this prize, researchers can nominate themselves or another researcher or a research group.

Three categories

The Data Award is awarded in three categories: 

  • Humanities and social sciences
  • Exact and technical sciences
  • Medical and life sciences

The winners of the Dutch Data Prize will be awarded € 5,000 to make their dataset more accessible (for example by organizing a symposium or making data available online) and a sculpture.

Curious about the winners of the previous edition of the Dutch Data Prize? Read about the 3 winners of 2018.

Nomination

Are you or do you know a researcher or research group with a dataset that qualifies for our prize? Nominate yourself or someone else via the nomination form. Nomination is possible until the 1st of June 2020.

Award Ceremony

The award ceremony will take place at NWO in The Hague on November 18th, 2020.

The 2020 Data Prize is embedded in a program for researchers, data supporters and data stewards. More information will be announced in the course of 2020. Would you like to attend this day? Please register via the online registration form.

Partners 

The Dutch Data Prize is an initiative of Research Data Netherlands (RDNL), a national coalition of data archives:  4TU.ResearchData, SURFsara and DANS. Partners of the Dutch Data Prize 2020 are: National Coordination Point LCRDM, netherlands eScience Center, Dutch Digital Heritage Network, OpenAIRE, DTL and UKB working group Research Data.

Utrecht University is, by means of RDM Support, a member of LCRDM and the UKB working group Research Data.