Dear Data Stewards@RWTH, the Call for Contributions for "Data Stewardship goes Germany 2025" (DSgG 2025) is open! This year's workshop will focus on "Data Stewardship in Day-to-Day Research Activities - Use Cases and Best Practices". The event will take place from 30 September to 1 October 2025 in Karlsruhe and will provide an excellent opportunity to network with peers and share experiences from daily data stewardship practice. Submission of abstracts (until 12 May 2025) via the event website: https://indico.kit.edu/event/5012/ In addition, I would also like to take the opportunity to share some updates on the development of a German Data Steward Community. As many of you may remember, initial steps toward building such a community were taken during the Community Canvas sessions at DSgG 2024 in Aachen. Since then, working groups have been established focusing on Vision & Strategy, Channels & Yellow Pages, and Challenges. The current status of this nationwide community and ideas for the next steps will be discussed at the upcoming DSgG interim meeting, which will take place online on 15th May 2025 (12-14h). If you are interested in shaping this community feel free to register: https://rwth.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/CVuqfaMIRp-XpnyLkQmv1w To stay informed about developments, upcoming meetings, and working group activities, subscribe to the mailing list: https://www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/info/datastewardsgermany If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Ute -- Dr. Ute Trautwein-Bruns Fachreferat Geowissenschaften Forschungsdaten Universitätsbibliothek RWTH Aachen University Templergraben 61 52062 Aachen Tel: +49 241 80 94448 Fax: +49 241 80 92273 trautwein-bruns@ub.rwth-aachen.de www.ub.rwth-aachen.de www.rwth-aachen.de/Forschungsdatenmanagement/ https://blog.rwth-aachen.de/forschungsdaten/