This poster was presented at the Health-RI conference, March 4, 2021 Building Data Stewardship Capacity in the Netherlands A community effort driven by Health-RI and DTL Celia van Gelder and Mijke Jetten, DTL Data stewardship and data management skills are essential in research. The lack of consensus on the responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and value of data stewards leads to confusion about the role and hampers building adequate data steward capacity. By bundling expertise and manpower of their partners, and with support of the research funders, Health-RI and DTL are making a significant step in tackling the FAIR data handling challenges the sector faces. These joint capacity building efforts will help build a skilled workforce that is ready for professional data handling. The various activities that are ongoing in the Dutch community are: Establishing a data stewardship competency framework and corresponding job profiles This work has been undertaken in the ZonMw/ELIXIR project “Towards FAIR data ...