Rīga Stradiņš University joins major Nordic-Baltic collaboration project on research data management

Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) will participate in a major new Nordic-Baltic research data management collaboration project - Nordic-Baltic Dataverse Hub (NaisH), which has received funding from the NordForsk programme within the framework of the Nordic Research Infrastructure Hubs.

This five-year project (2026–2030) aims to establish a sustainable collaborative framework between research data repositories in the Nordic and Baltic regions, using the open-source platform Dataverse as a common technological foundation. By promoting coherence, innovation, and capacity-building, the project will contribute to the accessibility, interoperability, and reliability of research data infrastructures in Norway, Denmark, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Latvia, and Lithuania.

The project brings together the following partners: University of Tromsø - Arctic University of Norway, Danish e-Infrastructure Consortium (DeiC), University of Iceland, University of the Faroe Islands, Rīga Stradiņš University and Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). The consortium will jointly pursue several strategic goals, including:

• development of common resources and guidelines for Trustworthy Digital Repositories (TDRs) implementing the FAIR principles;
• support for repositories in obtaining CoreTrustSeal certification and aligning with European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) standards;
• human resource development through training programmes, workshops and mentoring initiatives;
• responsible integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and introduction of machine-readable metadata in repositories;
• strengthening Nordic and Baltic representation in international networks, such as the EOSC, FIDELIS and the Global Dataverse Community Consortium (GDCC).

RSU participates in the project as the leading Latvian institution in research data management and Open Science. The university manages the first institutional Dataverse repository in Latvia - RSU Dataverse - and is committed to continuing the implementation of FAIR data principles and digital transformation in the Latvian research environment.

NaisH will provide significant added value to the Nordic-Baltic region by promoting joint development, efficient use of resources and international coordination in research data management. The project is implemented in accordance with the FAIR and TRUST principles, the EOSC vision and RSU's strategic goal - to promote openness, reproducibility and transparency in research.