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Description

The goals for this two-day workshop are practical: to familiarise participants with the concepts of data protection in research, actually minimise/pseudonymise/anonymise personal data in many of its forms, and use modern techniques for working with personal/sensitive data. This is a six-hour (in total) workshop that requires active participation and group work to complete tasks. This event is organised by Aalto Data Agents and Aalto Scientific Computing in collaboration with CSC IT Center for Science and LUMI AI Factory.  LUMI AI Factory is funded jointly by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, and the Participating States Finland, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Norway, and Poland.

Who can participate?

Anyone who works with personal data in all its forms (background variables from questionnaires, medical images, health data, geospatial location data, speech, videos, pictures, etc…). Active participation is required, please do not register if you cannot access a computer equipped with a microphone and keyboard during the workshop. Webcam is not required. The workshop is free and open to all, but we will use CSC Sensitive Data services for the hands-on part: if you are not affiliated to a Finnish research organistaion, you will not be able to get access to the CSC Sensitive Data services.

Format

The session consists of two days, three hours each. A 1 ECTS credit is available for doctoral students affiliated with Finnish organisations. To receive the 1 ECTS attendance to both days is mandatory, and a small homework will need to be completed.

Schedule and location

The workshop will be held online via Zoom on January 27 and 29 2026, at 12–3 PM Eastern European Time (EET). The workshop will not be recorded to allow participants to freely talk and interact.

Please note that the schedule below is tentative

Day 1 – 27/01/2026 12:00–15:00

• 12:00 - 13:00 Data protection principles and personal data lifecycle (1h)
• 13:00 - 14:00 Planning (data management plans, privacy notice, ethical pre-review) (1h)
• 14:00 - 15:00 Personal data collection, reuse, preservation, sharing, publishing (1h)

Day 2 – 5/12/2024 12:00–15:00 

• 12:00 - 13:00 Preprocessing (data minimisation and anonymisation) (1h)

• 13:00 - 15:00 Analysing personal data with secure computing workflows (2h)

Instructor(s)

Dr. Enrico Glerean, Staff Scientist, Data Agent, School of Science, Aalto University
Dr. Essi Viitanen, Senior Advisor, Data Agent, Research Services, Aalto University
Dr. Francesca Morello, Sensitive Data Services, CSC IT Centre for Science
Dr. Kimmo Mattila, Sensitive Data Services, CSC IT Centre for Science

Questions? Please contact enrico.glerean@aalto.fi.