FIDELIS is committed to provide training and support for the entire European repository landscape ( Including Horizon Europe associated countries), allowing all to improve their relevant skills and potentially onboard onto the FIDELIS Network. In these efforts, we recognise there are parts of the community where underrepresentation in previous training and support activities, lower certification rates, and limited access to resources and development can be observed. Taking into account these factors, the FIDELIS training and support strategy includes specific attention to balanced representation and specific actions we will take to ensure this. FIDELIS aims to 1) actively facilitate increased representation in our training and support programmes of countries that have previously been less well represented, so their repositories can be strengthened, 2) actively facilitate repository networking throughout Europe and allow onboarding onto the FIDELIS Network by all countries, and 3) improve understanding of the unique challenges, needs, and questions that are prevalent in these areas and may be different from previously identified topics in the repository landscape. We aim to facilitate community input on our strategy plans and to set up meaningful connections to better involve our intended audience through an initial online meeting, which people will be able to sign up for at the conference.
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