Author: Celia van Gelder | In March 2023, I received the invitation to become co-chair of the Spreading RDM Track (the Training & Education track) at the CoRDI 2023 conference. I happily accepted, and participating in this conference gave me the possibility to connect to our German colleagues with both my hats on (Health-RI/ELIXIR-NL Training Programme Manager and TDCC-LSH Network Manager).