Workshop: Strategic Data Stewardship & Change Management

Workshop: Strategic Data Stewardship & Change Management

Research Data Management (RDM) professionals such as data stewards, research data managers, and data curators play a key role advancing FAIR data and Open Science. To lead impactful RDM projects and foster better data practices, they need the knowledge and skills to shape strategies and to manage change.
This interactive 8h online course, split over two days, provides RDM professionals with practical tools, methods, and templates to plan strategically, manage change effectively, and apply what they learn right away.

What you will learn

• Clearly define and communicate your role and related skills
• Identify and manage your stakeholders
• Set meaningful strategic goals in collaboration with stakeholders and translate these into actionable plans
• Evaluate the impact of planned changes and manage change effectively
• Build resilience in handling different responses to change

Planned outline

Day 1	Data Stewardship task and skill frameworks, reflection on own role Stakeholder analysis Collaborative Goal Setting, RDM Strategy Frameworks Change Impact Analysis
Day 2	Change Management Input Emotional Competence and Change Resilience, Stress- & Frustration Management Task Planning & Optimization

Workshop details

Target Audience: The workshop is designed for anyone actively involved in research data management who wishes to strengthen their professional role, actively shape change processes, and enhance their resilience.

Eligibility: Euro-BioImaging Node staff and members of the Euro-BioImaging Data Stewards Expert Group can apply. In case we receive more applications than available spots we will select participants based on their motivation and prospective impact for the facility/Node.

Workshop language: English

Price: Free (supported by the EU in the frame of the EVOLVE project (Grant: 101130986))

Timeline:

Application start: 21.10.2026

Application end: 22.11.2026

Confirmation of participation: Early December

About the trainer: 

Antje Manske has a background as a Training Manager and Prosci Certified Change Practitioner and has been working since 2023 within a German national initiative for research data management, Base4NFDI. Before that, she spent more than ten years in industry and management consulting, leading software training projects.

In her freelance work, she supports data stewards in developing their transferable skills, such as change management, didactic, and consulting. Antje is an experienced workshop facilitator and keynote speaker and a certified expert in change management. Her workshops Agents of Change and Strategic Data Stewardship and Change Management (one-day version) have already been chosen by more than 120 participants across multiple European countries.