A look back at EcoDoR Day on January 20, 2025

On Monday, January 20, the IRD, on the Agropolis campus, hosted the Montpellier EcoDoR data workshop for a study day bringing together data professionals from the Montpellier site: data librarians from the UM's SOAR (Open Science and Research Support) 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 events by Laure Lefrançois, head of the SOAR department (UM SCD), we got down to business: a brainstorming session to identify expectations and questions, followed by answers to the questions raised.

On the lunch menu: canapés, petits fours, and greenhouses to finish! The cold buffet was followed by a tour, in small groups, of imposing glass and steel chapels where African and Asian rice plants and wild coffee trees thrive in a tropical heat that is more real than nature itself, capturing the interest of the day's visitors.

The afternoon was devoted to a "world café," a series of constructive workshops where participants could exchange best practices, questions, and proposals on topics covered by the EcoDoR workshop's working groups: creating a one-stop shop for researchers, pooling training opportunities on research data, providing support for drafting data management plans (DMPs), and promoting our data ecosystem.

Participants on this first day will therefore have had little opportunity to get bored, and work is already underway to organize another study day, this time dedicated to the community of researchers and teacher-researchers. This day is scheduled to take place next spring and we hope it will be just as successful.

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