The Dutch Data Prize
Every two years, RDNL awards the Dutch Data Prize to an individual or a team as a recognition of an outstanding effort to make research data FAIR.
The Dutch Data Prize is awarded in three categories:
- Social Sciences and Humanities
- Natural and Engineering Sciences
- Life Sciences and Health
The winners of the Dutch Data Prize receive € 3.500,- towards making their dataset ever more FAIR, for instance by organising a symposium or by making the data accessible online.
You can nominate your own dataset or a dataset produced by another individual or research group. Nominations are limited to research led or primarily conducted by research-performing organisations in the Netherlands.
Next Dutch Data Prize: 2026
The next edition of the Dutch Data Prize will be in 2026. Curious who were the previous winners? Have a look here and read about their work.
Criteria
The Dutch Data Prize 2024 criteria provide guidance for preparing submissions and ensure transparency about criteria to which the jury adhered in assessing submissions. Please be aware that these guidelines will be duly updated in due time for the 2026 award.
Download the Dutch Data Prize Award Criteria 2024.
Jury
The winners of the Dutch Data Prize are selected by an independent jury, consisting of the chair and six members, who are divided into pairs per category.
Prize Winning Research Data Practices
The Dutch Data Prize is a valuable recognition of researchers’ contributions to their own field and to the principle of FAIR data. There are many routes to practising FAIR data management and each of the finalists will have the opportunity to share ‘behind the scenes’ details about their research and data management practices in a short address prior to the award ceremony.