Data Stewardship Network

Carefully planned research data management is essential for reproducible research. Across Eawag, Empa, PSI and WSL, many research groups rely on dedicated members to ensure uniform data management, reproducible data analysis and standardized code development. These vital roles are increasingly known as data stewards, data managers or research software engineers.

To support these professionals and enable knowledge exchange between people involved in research data management, ETH Zürich, EPF Lausanne and the four research institutes in the ETH Domain launched individual networks with local events and cross-institutional community meetings twice-yearly. 

This network initiative has been possible through project funding by the ETH Board’s Open Research Data (ORD) program. The project Data Stewardship Network aims to:

• Facilitate knowledge exchange and best-practice workshops for data-focused roles.
• Provide coordinated, pragmatic support for managing research data across the ETH Domain.
• Advise on improvements for data policies within the ETH Domain.
• Highlight vital contributions and skillsets of data stewards and research software engineers within the research community.

Past meetings

12 March 2026 EPFL Research Data Support Network Gathering at EPFL (hybrid) 

10 March 2026 Careers in Data Stewardship (virtual) featuring Andreas Amsler (Meteoswiss), Lea Stauber (BLW), and Natalia Chicherova (NEXUS Personalized Health Technologies) 

04 November 2025 ETH Domain Data Stewardship Fall Community Event at Eawag (hybrid)

04 September 2025 EnhanceR Symposium: Finding Synergies between RSEs and Data Stewards

17 June 2025 Research Software Engineering and Data Stewardship Career Talk at Eawag featuring Lars Schöbitz, Liliana Vargas Meleza, Vincent Emonet, Stefanie Eyring 

03 April 2025 ETH Domain Data Stewardship Spring Community Event at ETH Zurich (hybrid)

For additional ETH Domain events and trainings, please check out the SRDSN events page.