Knowledge exchange for the UK's Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI). Highlighting activities and successes from DRI in the UK.
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🎂 Reminder: The call for applications for the third cohort of DRI Knowledge Exchange Fellows is now open! 🎂
We're searching for Fellows to champion and enable knowledge exchange for a part of the DRI community. Read more and apply: cake.ac.uk/about/ke-fellowsh…
Deadline: Nov. 12
🎂 Join CAKE Fellow Joe Wallwork at a special 70th birthday celebration of Fortran! 🎉
📅 Date: 1 December 2026
📍 Location: Science and Industry Museum, Manchester
🤝 Co-located with: CIUK 2026
🔗 Find out more: fortran-index.github.io/fort…
Photo by Aneta Pawlik on Unsplash
💡 CAKE Placements & Visits support the UK DRI community to build new collaborations and strengthen existing ones through flexible funding for travel, subsistence, and in-person or remote placements and visits.
Find out more: cake.ac.uk/about/placements/
📰 Check out our latest blog post: DisCouRSE launches free leadership programme for dRTPs! 📰
📅 Applications close at midnight on 8 November 2026.
👉 Find out more here: cake.ac.uk/news/discourse-le…
📣 Reminder: Have Your Say on EDI in the UK DRI+ Community
⏰ The survey closes tomorrow, Wednesday, 7 October at 23:45 BST.
The CAKE-CoSeC EDI Working Group is using your feedback to help shape its priorities and future activities.
👉 cake.ac.uk/news/CAKE-CoSeC-E…
📢 What’s On This Week? 📅
Looking for something to get involved in? Discover upcoming events, workshops, training sessions and other opportunities happening across the UK DRI+ community this week.
🔎 Check out the CAKE Events Calendar: cake.ac.uk/events/
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The call for applications for the third cohort of DRI Knowledge Exchange Fellows is now open!
Read more and apply here: cake.ac.uk/about/ke-fellowsh…
Deadline for applications is November 12.
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📣 One week left: Understanding EDI in the UK DRI+ Community
Help us understand experiences, priorities and challenges around equality, diversity and inclusion across the UK DRI community.
📝 Take the survey: cake.ac.uk/news/CAKE-CoSeC-E…
⏱️ 15–20 minutes
📅 Deadline: Wednesday 7 Oct
📣 One day left: CHARTED Funds 1 and 3 close on 30 September!
cake.ac.uk/news/charted-fund…
📢 Upcoming Events 📢
There is a lot going on in October! Discover upcoming sessions, workshops and opportunities on the CAKE Events Calendar 📆
cake.ac.uk/events/
📣 DisCouRSE launches free leadership programme for dRTPs!
DisCouRSE is offering 32 fully funded places across two complementary leadership development programmes for digital Research Technical Professionals (dRTPs).
Read more in this blog post: cake.ac.uk/news/discourse-le…
One week left! CHARTED Fund 1 (FAIRifying training resources, up to £40k) and Fund 3 (tools & frameworks, up to £150k) close 30 Sept. Make dRTP training easier to find, reuse and build on: cake.ac.uk/news/charted-fund… #UKRI #DRI #RSE
70 years of Fortran, and it's still running weather, reactor and material simulation codes - indeed 65%+ of workloads on ARCHER2 are in Fortran! Celebrate in Manchester on 1 Dec (or on Zoom). Lightning talk & poster slots open, free registration: cake.ac.uk/news/fortran-birt… #Fortran
Alice Howarth and Ruth Davies were awarded a CAKE placement to answer the question "is open research itself is an exemplar of reliable, responsible and equitable practice, or does it reproduce the culture of the research ecosystem it sits within" - cake.ac.uk/news/FOR2026/
#RSECon was a lot of fun last week, with a whole bunch of great conversations and things learnt. What were your main takeaways from the event?
Got an idea you wish someone would develop, document or benchmark? #SHAREing will fund it! Suggest a task by 22 Sept and, if approved, it becomes an open, funded piece of work for the community to deliver. Details: cake.ac.uk/news/shareing-sug… #UKRI #DRI
Still time to sign up for SHAREing’s assessment webinar that is happening this afternoon, 2–3pm, online. Come along to hear from the Durham SHAREing team about the performance assessment methodology they’ve been developing.
Register at shareing-dri.github.io/event…
Interested in exploring #DRI across the world? Try our new interactive DRI landscape map at cake.ac.uk/landscape/map/
A DisCouRSE funded project has brought together dRTP leaders to set up a new Community of Practice for operational managers, and to open source Capacity eXtended (CapX), Manchester’s tool for planning resources, managing operations and reporting on impact. cake.ac.uk/news/discourse-op…
