February 04, 2026
9:30 - 17:00 CET
Instructors: Ole Mussmann, Sander van Rijn, Malte Luken
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The eScience Center offers a range of workshops and training courses, aimed at PhD candidates and other researchers or research software engineers. We organize workshops covering digital skills needed to put reproducible research into practice. These include online collaboration, reproducible code and good programming practices. We also offer more advanced workshops such as GPU Programming, Parallel Programming, Image Processing and Deep Learning.
Reproducible research is the foundation of science. This workshop is tailored for PhD candidates and Research Software Engineers affiliated with Dutch research institutions who would like to learn more about how to apply best practices to make your research reproducible through reusable code.
The workshop will cover the following key aspects:
You will have hands-on exercises and many opportunities to ask questions that are relevant to you.
The workshop is a full day on location at the Netherlands eScience Center.
You are a researcher who wants to make your code reusable. You are able to write basic code in a programming language like R or Python.
Important: You should bring your own code project to this workshop and be willing to share it with others. This project can be a few simple lines of code or a larger piece of software.
The workshop is aimed at PhD candidates and other researchers or research software engineers affiliated with Dutch research institutions. We do not accept registrations by Master students.
Where: Science Park 402, 1098 XH Amsterdam. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.
When: February 04, 2026, 9:30 - 17:00 CET.
Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).
Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. The workshop organizers have checked that:
Materials will be provided in advance of the workshop and large-print handouts are available if needed by notifying the organizers in advance. If we can help making learning easier for you (e.g. sign-language interpreters, lactation facilities) please get in touch (using contact details below) and we will attempt to provide them.
Workshop files: You will find all slides, notebooks, archived collaborative documents, and other relevant files in the files folder of the workshop website repository after the workshop.
Contact: Please email or training@esciencecenter.nl for more information.
Participants are expected to follow these guidelines:
The workshop is a full day on location.
| local Amsterdam time | what |
|---|---|
| 09:30 | Welcome and icebreaker |
| 09:45 | Workshop introduction: why is reproducibility important? |
| 10:00 | Uploading a coding project to GitHub |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 10:40 | Software depenencies |
| 11:00 | Software documentation |
| 11:30 | Break |
| 11:40 | Code conventions and modular coding |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Next steps: how to make your code reusable? |
| 13:45 | Work on your own project |
| 15:30 | Reusability check |
| 16:15 | Wrap-up |
| 17:00 | End |
All times in the schedule are in the CET timezone.
To participate in this workshop, you will need access to software as described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.
We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.
For this workshop you need a laptop and access to the internet. Choose one of your coding projects in R or Python, be it a few lines of code or a larger piece of software.
Important: Please follow the pre-workshop assignment at this link to upload the code to GitHub!