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Data Donation Symposium 2026
The 2026 symposium brings together applied researchers, methodologists, legal and ethical experts, research engineers, and software developers working with digital trace data.
- Date
- October 1-2, 2026
- Location
- Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin, Germany
Also upcoming
New Directions in Social Media Research Conference
A two-day conference bringing together international researchers studying technology-mediated social experiences, to explore new directions in research, emerging methods, and evidence-based policy.
Previous events
Legal Templates for Data Donation Research Workshop
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.
- Date
- 4 September 2026
- Time
- 09:30 -16:00
- Location
- Roeterseilandcampus - building B/C/D
- Room
- C10.20
Data Donation as a Method for Social Media Research: Workflow, Privacy Considerations, and Practical Challenges
Symposium hands-on workshop that explores the legal and ethical challenges of using social media data in research, from a privacy-first perspective.
Data Donation Symposium 2025
Hosted by colleagues at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
How to prepare a data donation study?
A hands-on introduction to designing a study and preparing participants for data donation.
Collecting digital trace data through data donation
A practical tutorial on deploying a data donation workflow for computational social science research.
Data Donation Symposium 2024
Photos, programme, keynote by Melinda Mills, and materials from the Amsterdam event.
How to prepare a data donation study?
An introductory short course on study design, ethics, and implementation choices.
Data Donation Symposium 2023
An international symposium with sessions on empirical studies, legal aspects, bias, tooling, and methodological considerations for data donation.
Data Donation Day 2022
The earlier Utrecht event that helped shape the current symposium series.
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