EnhanceR Symposium 2025: Call for contributions
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:
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Show-and-tell sessions: Share software you developed, a specific project, tool or technique. These are 30 Minute sessions including Q&A and discussions.
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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.