For the 5th time since 2017, the EPFL Library has coordinated the Research Data Management Survey, a study on data and code management practices that gathered responses from nearly 2’000 people across 14 Swiss institutions: CERN, Eawag, Empa, EPFL, ETH Zurich, FHNW, IHEID, PSI, the University of Basel, the University of Bern, UNIL–CHUV, USI, WSL and other university partners. An initial synthesis of the EPFL results was published during Love Data Week 2026, and the complete 2025 data are now available in open access on Zenodo and Infoscience.Beyond this first overview, the detailed analysis highlights several strong trends for the EPFL community and its partners:widespread use of institutional servers and cloud services, but persistent backups on personal devices and external drivesvery broad adoption of Git for code, while data versioning still relies mainly on manual file renamingcommon documentation practices (README files, notebooks, comments) but few formalized metadata schemas or ELNsand above all, a marked lack of literacy around licenses and metadata standards, combined with strong demand for support on storage, disciplinary standards, licensing, data publication and DMPs.These results form the basis of a collaborative white paper, “Research Data Management in Swiss Higher Education - Findings and Recommendations from the 2025 Survey”, currently being prepared with colleagues from other Swiss institutions. They also directly inform the evolution of RDM services at EPFL:reviewing the Fast Guidesdevelopment of practical templates (codebooks, data workflows)strengthening the guidance on storage and AIenhanced support for practical anonymization and deletion of sensitive dataand better visibility for the training and consulting services offered by the Library’s RDM team.For more information about RDM services at EPFL, visit go.epfl.ch/rdm or contact [email protected].