Happy New Year all and delighted to share this Fellowship opportunity for Open Repositories 2019 in Hamburg. The fellowship covers travel, accommodation, and full conference registration, including the poster reception and conference banquet. Application deadline is the 19^th of January. Please share with your colleagues and potential candidates.

 

Thanks, William

 

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William J Nixon

Assistant Director, Digital Strategy

University of Glasgow Library

 

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For immediate release

02 January 2019

 

NOW ACCEPTING FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS 

 

The Open Repositories Steering Committee is now accepting applications for fellowships to attend OR2019 in Hamburg, Germany.

The purpose of the fellowship programme is to allow a limited number of qualified librarians, repository managers, developers, or researchers in digital libraries or related fields to participate in the conference.

The fellowship covers travel, accommodation, and full conference registration, including the poster reception and conference banquet.

 

Applicants will be asked to address the following:

1) Financial need;

2) How participating in Open Repositories will support your professional and/or educational goals; and

3) Willingness to participate in the conference as evidenced by note-taking/live-blogging and/or a presentation or poster submission.

 

Application deadline:  19 January 2019

Notifications:  early February 2019

Apply now:  https://goo.gl/forms/Q6brQ81StYYf87LI3.

 

PROGRAM CHAIRS

 

Jyrki Ilva, National Library of Finland

Jessica Lindholm, Chalmers University of Technology

Torsten Reimer, British Library

Contact: or19-program-chairs@googlegroups.com

 

LOCAL HOSTS

 

Universität Hamburg

Center for Sustainable Research Data Management

Contact: or2019.fdm@uni-hamburg.de

 

WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA

 

Conference website: http://or2019.net/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ORConference/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenRepos

Hashtag: #OpenRepo2019