At the SURF Research Day 2025 Conference, we hosted a session on researchers and supporters: supply and demand. Our session brought together researchers and supporters to discuss the needs of researchers and the services offered by supporters.

We are excited to share the full session report now published on Zenodo:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15753764

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Researchers and Supporters: Supply and Demand - Post Conference Report on the Session Findings

Included in this repository is the report on the session Researchers and Supporters: Supply and Demand, a session hosted by Garrett Speed and Dan Rudmann at the SURF Research Day 2025 conference in Hilversum, 20 May 2025.  In the file results.zip are the images of the posters after the different group discussions and spreadsheets with the results transcribed. In the file Template.zip are the files to re-create the session, including PDFs that are ready to use, and Adobe InDesign files that created the PDFs.   

Zenodo

Research cannot thrive without proper support. That’s why the sector annually honors the innovators in research support with the SURF Research Support Champion Awards.

This year, the awards go to Raoul Schram, Renate Mattiszik, and Ernest Boskovic. Congratulations! 👏

Read more about the champions: https://www.surf.nl/en/news/these-are-the-research-support-champions-2025?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-05-social&utm_kwd=these-are-the-research-support-champions-2025&utm_source=mastodon&utm_content=onderzoek

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These are the Research Support Champions 2025

Research cannot thrive without solid support. That is why the sector annually recognizes innovators in research support with the SURF Research Support Champion Awards. This year, the awards go to Raoul Schram, Renate Mattiszik and Ernest Bošković.

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What an inspiring SURF Research Day! A full day of knowledge sharing, new ideas and valuable connections.

Highlights included Katrien Keune’s talk on collaboration in Operation Night Watch, the celebration of our Research Support Champion Award winners, and engaging breakout sessions on topics like geopolitics in science and publishing research software.

What was your highlight?

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And the winner of the people's choice award is Renate Mattiszik! Congratulations! #SRD25 #research

The last keynote at SURF Research Day is from Vanessa Evers. In this presentation Vanessa will discuss projects in which she created social robot technology; explain how they went about designing integrated AI driven robots.

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It's time for the quantum quiz! To learn all the things you did not know yet about quantum. #SRD25 #research

Help us celebrate the incredible contributions of our Research Support Champions by voting for your favourite!
Vote now: https://www.surf.nl/en/peoples-choice-award

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People's choice award

Vote for your favourite Research Support Champion 2025

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Next up at the #SRD25, a very timely panel on “Effects of the Current Geopolitical Situation on Science”. Chilling examples from immediate data loss through government “agencies”.
And now it's time for the Research Support Champion Awards. Congratulations to Raoul Schram, Renate Mattiszik and Ernest Boskovic! 🏆 #SRD25 #research

Today I’m at the #SURFResearchDay in Hilversum - I look forward to it.

Is there an official event hashtag for 2025?

Edit: apparently it is #SRD25 :-)