From 12 to 14 June 2024, the NFFA-Europe Summer School on Data Management and Virtual Access took place in Heraklion (Greece), hosted at the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), as part of the training activities organized by NFFA-Europe, a Research and Innovation Action under the H2020 Work Programme. Dr. Rossella Aversa (one of the scientific organizers), Thomas Jejkal, and Nicolas Blumenröhr, all from SCC, travelled to Greece to hold their lectures.
The aim of the three-day Summer School was to guide researchers to effectively put FAIR principles into practice and to make use of Virtual Access services, a novel set of cloud services offered by NFFA-Europe, which includes innovative online simulation services, databases, machine learning services, data analysis and metadata management.
The instructors introduced specific data and metadata management tools (data management plans, repositories, metadata schemas) as well as each of the Virtual Access services. The sessions were widely supported by dedicated tutorials and hands-on activities.
The attendees, including technicians, graduate students, post-docs, and young researchers from academic and industrial communities, participated actively and manifested their positive feedback in the final survey.