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EnhanceR Symposium 2025: Call for contributions

EnhanceR Symposium 2025: Call for contributions

April 29, 2025·Uwe Schmitt

We are looking for contributions for the EnhanceR symposium 2025 which will take place on 4 September 2025 in Fribourg.

About

The EnhanceR Symposium is a one-day event for RSEs and Research IT professionals and offers a unique opportunity to

  • Share your experiences - both successes and valuable lessons learned.
  • Learn directly from your peers in Swiss academia.
  • Collaborate to advance the field of research software engineering in Switzerland.

You can find more details at https://symposium.enhancer.ch/.

The event will be free to attend and tickets will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis up to a limit of 140 seats.

Call for contributions

We are looking for contributions from a range of areas relevant to our community:

  • Show-and-tell sessions: Share software you developed, a specific project, tool or technique. These are 30 Minute sessions including Q&A and discussions.

  • Workshops: Lead a hands-on session or facilitate a discussion on a topic, 45 or 90 minute sessions.

Examples for workshops include, but are not limited to:

  • Hands-on sessions focusing on specific techniques (e.g., advanced Git workflows).
  • Effective data management strategies and techniques.
  • Implementing best practices for reproducible, ethical, inclusive, and collaborative data science and research, following principles like those championed by The Turing Way.
  • Strategies for scaling up RSE initiatives within Switzerland.
  • Project management methodologies tailored for research software projects.
  • Navigating the role and challenges of an RSE.

Would you like to help shape the EnhanceR Symposium? Please submit your idea using this form this form by 8 June 2025.