Programme

All meetings on the ground floor conference room West 2.
Lunch on Wednesday is in the basement dining room; Lunch on Thursday will be served in West 1.

  • Wednesday, October 1, 2025
    (NOTE: Members of the MEDem Board will join the workshop beginning on Thursday)
    • noon: Gather and lunch provided at GESIS
    • 13:00: Welcome and Introductions
    • 14:45 Erik Schultes  “An introduction to the FAIR Guiding Principles and current trends in implementation”
    • 15:15: Panel Discussion: Persistent Identifiers: Challenges, Resources, and Opportunities (Moderated by: Ken Kollman, joined by Pola Lehmann and Johannes Gruber)
    • 16:00 Coffee break
    • 16:15: Panel Discussion: FAIR Data, Interoperability, and Vocabularies
      (Moderated by: Natalie Meyers, joined by Sofia Gil-Clavel, Karolina Koc Michalska, and Christian Welzel)
    • 17:00 Adjourn until dinner
    • 19:00 Dinner at Brauhaus FRÜH am DOM (mapped) (.66km from GESIS)
  • Thursday, October 2, 2025
    • 09:00: Welcome and Introductions
    • 09:30: Panel Discussion: A Linking Space for Democracy Research
      (Moderated by: Sebastian Ziaja, joined by Lorenzo De Sio, Melina Liethmann, and Simon Franzmann)
    • 10:45: ECPR Research Network “Data Linkage in Political Science” (Alexia Katsanidou)
    • 11:00: Coffee break
    • 11:15: Keynote address: Erik Schultes, The GO FAIR Foundation
      “An introduction to the FAIR Guiding Principles and current trends in implementation”
    • 12:30: lunch provided at GESIS
    • 13:30: Linking Copernicus Data with Political Science Data: A Case for Interoperability
      (Alexia Katsanidou)
    • 14:00: Keynote address: Steve McEachern, CODATA
      “FAIR data and democracy research: recent experiences and future directions”
    • 15:15: Coffee break
    • 15:30: Panel Discussion: Promoting FAIR Awareness in the Disciplines
      (Moderated by: Jakob-Moritz Eberl, joined by Damian Guzek, Gail McElroy, and Mariken van der Velden)
    • 16:30: Workshop wrap-up
    • 17:00 Adjourn