Call for Task Group Proposals for Presentation to the 34th CODATA General Assembly
17-18 October 2025, Brisbane, Australia
CODATA invites proposals for Task Groups to be presented to the 34th CODATA General Assembly which will be held on 17-18 October 2025 in Brisbane, Australia, and online. The General Assembly follows the International Data Week 2025 comprising SciDataCon 2025 conference (organised by CODATA and WDS) and the RDA Plenary.
The deadline for submissions of Task Group Proposals is 17 June 2025. Proposals will be reviewed by the CODATA Executive Committee and by external experts. Recommendations will be presented to the CODATA General Assembly which will vote on and select the Task Groups.
Task Groups are approved by the General Assembly for two years. Existing CODATA Task Groups may apply for renewal and are subject to the same criteria, as described in the Call for Task Groups 2025-2027 document.
Task Groups and the CODATA’s Mission and Strategic Plan
Task Groups are an important means through which CODATA delivers on its mission and Strategic Programme. In this 2025 call, we strongly encourage Task Groups that contribute to one or more of the strategic priorities listed below and described further in the Call for Task Groups document. The CODATA ExComm as well as external reviewers of the proposal will be evaluating the relevance and merit of the proposed Task Group to the CODATA priorities.
CODATA Strategic Priorities
CODATA’s mission is to connect data and people to advance science and improve our world. As the Committee on Data of the International Science Council (ISC), CODATA helps realise ISC’s vision of advancing science as a global public good. CODATA does this by promoting international collaboration to advance trustworthy, equitable and transparent science and to improve the availability and usability of data for all areas of research.
CODATA has three strategic priorities:
- Making data work for cross-domain grand challenges: CODATA is leading a ground-breaking initiative, called WorldFAIR+, to provide practical guidance and technical recommendations to ensure that the data needed for interdisciplinary research is FAIR.
- Promoting data policy: CODATA encourages the adoption of principles, policies and practices for FAIR data and trustworthy, equitable and transparent science.
- Putting data science and AI in service of science: CODATA develops good practices and guidelines for the science of data, particularly to enable transparency and reproducibility in the use of computational methods in a world adapting to the challenges and opportunities of transformative technologies.
Proposals should state clearly and specifically how the Task Group will contribute to the realisation of one or more of these objectives and the priority activities.
Please refer to the Call for Task Groups 2025-2027 document for a detailed description of the three priorities and related activities.
Submission Procedure and Deadlines
- Applications should be made by filling out the form available at CODATA website by 17 June 2025. This form is the principal information source used for evaluating the proposals.
- Proposers are encouraged to download a template to pre-fill proposed membership of the Task Group for easy upload to the webform when submitting the proposal.
- For existing CODATA Task Groups that are applying for renewal, there is an additional section in the application form, in which the Task Group are required to report on its activities, outputs and outcomes to date.
- Proposers are encouraged to liaise with the CODATA Secretariat and contact us at info@codata.org as early as possible in the process for guidance, advice and to ensure the application criteria outlined in the Call for Task Groups document are fully met.