Contribute & learn

Become an ODON Creator

Work on real open data projects, learn with others, and get recognition for what you build — whatever your experience level.

Learning with open data
Last updated: 2026-11-01

What Creators Do

Creators contribute to real open data projects — Data Stories, datasets and APIs, tools, and educational material — and learn by doing alongside experienced people. Projects are chosen freely; there are no obligations and no fixed hours.

What You Get Back

Badges

Earn badges for concrete skills, awarded after your work has been reviewed.

  • ODON Creator badge
  • Open Data badge
  • Data Engineering & APIs badge
  • Data Storytelling badge
  • Mentor badge

See all badges and criteria →

Certificates

Request a certificate signed by the association, listing your projects, role and skills.

Public Profile (optional)

If you want, we show your profile with your badges and projects on this page.

How public profiles work →

How It Works

  • 1. Send us an email with the subject "ODON Creator" and one or two sentences about what interests you.
  • 2. We add you to our project list and send you calls when a project needs help.
  • 3. You pick the projects you want to work on.

Open Licences

Contributions are published under open licences (for example MIT for code, CC BY for content), in line with our mission. Each project's licence is stated in its repository.

Current Project Calls

We send project calls to Creators by email as soon as a project needs help. To see what kind of projects we take on, have a look at ODON Projects.

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