Love Data Week 2026: Events featuring RADAR repositories

Published: 03.02.2026

Love Data Week is an international week of action focusing on research data and research data management, which is held annually around the world. The aim is to raise awareness of research data management, promote exchange between stakeholders, and present specific services, tools, and practical examples.

Love Data Week 2026 has the motto “Where's the Data?” and will take place from February 9 to 13, 2026. An overview of events in German-speaking countries is available at forschungsdaten.info.

Research data repositories based on RADAR software are also represented during Love Data Week:

Universität Potsdam: Launch of FDM Services for Brandenburg

The state initiative FDM-BB (Research Data Management in Brandenburg) invites you to the launch of the joint FDM services for Brandenburg on Monday, February 9, 2026, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (online, without registration, in German language). We from the RADAR team are involved in the event and will participate in the presentation of RADAR-BB, the institutional repository for publishing open research data from Brandenburg's universities.

Further information on the event “FDM Services für Brandenburg” is available on the website of the state initiative FDM-BB.

University of Würzburg: Coffee Lectures on WueData

The University Library of Würzburg will hold two short coffee lectures (in German Language) on the institutional repository WueData, which is based on RADAR:

Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 11:00–11:30 a.m.: WueData und JMU Data Journals – Ein Überblick über Services und Ansprechpartner rund um Forschungsdatenpublikationen an der JMU
Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.: Vom institutionellen Repositorium WueData ins bayerische Open-Data-Portal – Würzburger Forschungsdatenpublikationen sichtbarer machen

An overview of all five Coffee Lectures planned by the University Library of Würzburg as part of Love Data Week can be found on the University Library of Würzburg website. All Coffee Lectures are online and without registration.