You have been locked into an office by a (slightly more crazy than usual) professor. Can you solve all the research data management riddles and escape before the VU closes?
The Data Horror Escape Room is a real life experience based on the online Data Horror Escape Room by the GHOST collective.
Sign up to test your skills in this Data Horror Week special event. There are three rounds of escape rooms attemps, this is sign-up page is for the round between 14:00 and 15:00. Availability is limited, so if you want to sign up with a team, have each member sign up individually above.
Who should attend?
This escape room is open for everybody, but very useful for (starting) researchers and students preparing for a career in academia.
About the Data Horror Week & GHOST
26-29 October 2026
Data Horror Week is an initiative that uses spooky stories, real research mishaps and Halloween-themed activities to teach researchers how to manage data safely and responsibly. Instead of traditional lectures about data management, it uses mistakes and disasters into mysteries that make researchers, students and data professionals shudder with terror. Boo!
The GHOST collective is a group of Open Science enthusiasts from universities across the Netherlands. They make Open Science games that can be used as training materials or just for fun. Check out their escape rooms and card games by following this link