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From 17 to 18 January 2024, the Netzwerk Universitätsmedizin (NUM) is organizing the first NUM Convention 2024 in Berlin. Representatives from medicine, science, healthcare, politics and economy will come together to discuss the topic of "Joint research for health". 

NFDI4Health is stepping away from Twitter/X in favour of platforms that are currently more aligned with our values. We are still active on the alternative networks LinkedIn and Mastodon.

The new Data Train training program organized by the U Bremen Research Alliance starts in January 2024 and is now open for registration. Data Train is a cross-disciplinary graduate training program and a core element of the NFDI4Health training approach. 

The NFDI4Health Steering Committee met to define the objectives for 2024 and discuss the 2nd application phase during a two-day retreat last week in Göttingen. It was an inspiring exchange with innovative results.

The International Data Week was hosted by the University of Salzburg from 23 to 26 October 2023. The event brought together international researchers to discuss the opportunities and frontiers of data in research. NFDI4Health presented the relevance of data stewards and training concepts in data management to build a FAIR infrastructure in health research.

This year's Special Topic Conference (STC) of the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI) took place in Turin from 25 to 27 October 2023. The EFMI working group “FAIR data in Health Research Performing Organizations” and HL7 Europe hosted the workshop "Discussing FHIR implementations with regard to the FAIR data principles". NFDI4Health presented the FHIR implementation of its metadata schema.