BioDT webinar series – Towards FAIR Digital Twins – 1st session Speakers: Yifat Dzigan – Head of Environment & Sustainability at The Netherlands eScience Center Robin Richardson – Senior Research Software Engineer at The Netherlands eScience Center Peter Kalverla – Research Software Engineer at The Netherlands eScience Center The Biodiversity Digital Twin’s design, implementation, and maintenance present several issues, including the linkage and integration of various data types and related computing services. Consequently, FAIR principles are extremely important, especially during the modelling and prototyping process. Over the last few months, the BioDT team has been discussing how to understand the FAIRness of the data sources. In particular, the team engaged in improving “Quality of Data, Workflows and Models through FAIR Principles” is tasked with delivering an implementation plan for FAIR Digital Objects over the FAIR data designs of the relevant Research Infrastructures. The team is working to find gaps in understanding FAIR implementation and how it connects to BioDT, even though FAIR principles and the technological elements supporting Digital Twins are not new. To facilitate discussions around this topic, the BioDT consortium is organising a series of online webinars to stimulate conversations around FAIR with a focus on BioDT and the digital twinning paradigm. Experts and practitioners that deal with different aspects of FAIR implementation and digital twins are invited to join to bring forward discussions that help understand FAIR implementation in a more actionable way. The first session took place on 26 January at 14:00 (CET) and provides a conceptual overview of FAIR principles applicable on digital twinning, with examples of FAIR implementation from the eWaterCycle and the FAIR is as FAIR does projects. More information here: https://biodt.eu/events/towards-fair-digital-twins-1st-session