ACCoRD: A Community for Contract Regulation for Data - Roadmapping Workshop

ACCoRD - A Community for Contract Regulation for Data - Launch Workshop

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Join us for an in-person workshop from ACCoRD – A Community for Contract Regulation for Data - project, a groundbreaking initiative to streamline and improve research data contracting across the UK.

Data contracts—formal agreements governing how research data is stored, shared, and used—are essential to the UK’s Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI). Yet, the current contracting process is often slow, complex, and inconsistent.

Project ACCoRD is changing that that by building the roadmap for national framework for data contracts and a vibrant community of experts to guide its development.

This interactive workshop marks conclusion of a 12-month journey to gather evidence, share best practices, and shape the future of data contracting.

During the workshop, we'll be sharing the results of our work and co-developing the prioritised roadmap that will guide the nexts steps towards the national framework.

Who Should Attend

For this final workshop we'd really love to bring together all the stakeholders across the whole data contracting process

If you’re involved in research data contracting in any capacity, your voice matters. We welcome:

• Researchers and data users
• Legal and contracts professionals
• University contracting teams
• Data centre staff
• Policy makers and infrastructure experts
• Legal and contracting experts

By attending, you’ll :

• learn about our work to help shape a more efficient and equitable data contracting system - what does the process look like, who are the stakeholders, what good practice have we identified and where are the challenges
• have the opportunity to help us set priority tasks and create a roadmap for the development of a reearch data contracting framework
• have the opportunity to join the ACCoRD community moving this work forward.

Audio Recording and Data Protection

This project has been approved by the UCL Research Ethics Committee: 2025-1707

UCL Data Protection Registration Number: Z6364106/2025/08/82

Key points:

UK Research and Innovation, the NFCS Network Plus and ACCoRD seek to maximise the impact of our work and involve and benefit all partis of society by embedding equality, diversity and inclusion in all we do, In order to help us monitor participation, identify gaps and ensure that we are proactive in promoting fair approaches and opportunities

1. We are collecting EDI monitoring data as part of signing up for this event - thanks for completing the form (required to obtain a ticket).
2. We’ll be audio recording parts of the event to help summarize discussions.
3. Photos may also be taken—let us know if you’d prefer not to be included.

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Host or Publisher Dr Claire Ellul