The evolution of the network and its integration in the Swiss and international landscapes were recurring topics throughout the morning. The day began with a presentation by Sylvia Jenney (SNSF), who shared with us valuable insights into the processes and ORD strategy of SNSF. Silke Bellanger (UniBAS and SRDSN Steering Committee) and Gero Schreier (UniBE) discussed the final SRDSN project milestones, some ideas for future events, and the outcome of the mandates assigned by swissuniversities to our network. Both SRDSN nodes that were initiated during the project are now officially active: Personal and Sensitive Data (presented by Christine Krebs, UniBE, and Christian Futter, UZH), and Data Stewards Coordinators (presented by Carmen Jambé, UNIL). The latter provided a smooth transition for Marielle Guirlet (UNIL), with an account of the first CAS in Data Stewardship and an outlook to the 2026 edition. Collaboration with other networks was mentioned frequently, such as in Cristina Grisot (UNIGE)’s presentation about CLARIN-CH and DARIAH-CH, but also European initiatives (EOSC, ERIC, ESFRI) listed by Sylvia Jenney, and consideration of a joint meeting with the EnhanceR Research IT network proposed by Silke Bellanger.

The exception in that organization-oriented morning was Federico Grasso Toro (UniBE), who proposed his technical framework FJORD as a solution to interconnect research service platforms and facilitate data management, FAIR research outputs, etc.

After the group picture and the traditional networking lunch, Magalie Vetter (UNIL) discussed the standards and legal context applicable to research data archiving - a topic too often overshadowed by data publication, and an important topic to address with our archivist colleagues. The program continued with a series of tools and services. Fabian Schmid (ETHZ) introduced the ETH Researchers Guide to Data Repositories, a useful new section of ETH Zurich’s online documentation. Auriane Marmier and Emilie Morgan de Paula (FORS) gave us an overview of their centre’s rich data management toolkit for social scientists. On a more IT-related topic, Ionut Iosifescu (WSL), Henry Lütcke (ETHZ) and Fabian Felder (LIB4RI) presented the recommendations of an ETH Domain working group on interoperability, with S3 and Datacite as core technologies. For the final talk, Fabian went on with another outcome from the ETH domain, the Data Management Campus, where a growing number of online training modules are openly available.

All slides will be available shortly in the SRDSN community on Zenodo. Our next meeting will take place in Lugano in March 2026. Until then, we wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!