A look back at EcoDoR Day on January 20, 2025

On Monday January 20, the IRD on the Agropolis campus hosted the EcoDoR data workshop in Montpellier for a one-day workshop bringing together data professionals from the Montpellier site: data librarians from the UM's SOAR (Science ouverte et accompagnement de la recherche) department, and missi dominici from the 11 site partners working on research data.

After coffee and croissants, a welcome from our hosts Jean-Christophe Desconnets, and a presentation of the program of festivities by Laure Lefrançois, head of the SOAR department (UM's SCD), it was time to get down to business: a brainstorming session to raise expectations or questions, followed by answers to the questions raised.

On the lunch menu: canapés, mignardises, and greenhouses to finish! The cold buffet was followed by a tour, in small groups, of the imposing glass and steel chapels where African and Asian rice plants and wild coffee bushes thrive in a larger-than-life tropical setting, capturing the interest of the day's visitors.

The afternoon was devoted to a "world café", a series of constructive workshops in which participants exchanged best practices, questions and proposals on the themes that occupied the GTs of the EcoDoR workshop: the creation of a one-stop shop for researchers, the pooling of training courses on research data, support for the drafting of DMPs (data management plans) and the promotion of our data ecosystem.

The participants in this first day will therefore have had little opportunity to get bored, and work is already underway to organize a new study day, this time dedicated to the community of researchers and teacher-researchers, which should be held next spring and which we hope will be just as successful.

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