Welcome to Europe's Data Donation Infrastructure

Leveraging the right of data access for research

Learn about data donation →

The method

What is data donation?

Data donation allows researchers to collect digital traces by asking participants to donate their own data. Interested?

Learn how it works →

For researchers

Prepare a study

Guidance for preparing your study from design to ethics to FAIR practices.

How to run a study →

Open source

Free, open-source software

Free, open-source tools that collect donated data right in the participant's browser.

Explore the software →

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Legal Templates for Data Donation Research Workshop

September 4, 2026

We invite privacy experts, data stewards, ethics committee members, and researchers to a workshop on Legal Templates for Data Donation Research, organised as part of the NWO TDCC RIGHTS project. The workshop explores the legal and ethical challenges of data donation research.