Welcome to the Quarto Workshop 2026

◉ January 22nd/23rd

☗ Room 4.006 at the fourth floor of the University and City Library, Cologne (back entrance, via Kerpener Str.)

What is Quarto?

Quarto is a modern open-source publishing system that turns plain text and code into polished papers, slides, websites, books, and teaching materials. It unifies writing and computation, supports seamless reproducible workflows, and bridges the gap between publishing your research and reusing the same transparent analyses in notebooks for teaching.

A schematic representation showing Quarto can understand multi-language input and produce multi-format outputs ([Artwork by Allison Horst](https://allisonhorst.com/cetinkaya-rundel-lowndes-quarto-keynote) from the [“Hello, Quarto” keynote](https://mine.quarto.pub/hello-quarto/#/hello-quarto-title) by Julia Lowndes and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, first presented at the RStudio Conference 2022).

Quarto can understand multi-language input and produce multi-format outputs (Artwork by Allison Horst from the “Hello, Quarto” keynote by Julia Lowndes and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, first presented at the RStudio Conference 2022).

About this Workshop

The Quarto workshop will be held on January 22nd and 23rd 2026 at the University and City Library of Cologne and is open to all members of the university of Cologne. We will meet in room 4.06 at the fourth floor of the main building of the University and City Library.

If you would like to participate in person, please register here: Registration @ terminplaner.dnf.

You can also join us via Zoom, though please note that we won’t be able to provide any technical support to online participants. If you would like to participate via zoom, please register here: Zoom-Registration @ terminplaner.dnf.

We have put together five sessions across two days: we’ll start with a gentle introduction assuming no prior knowledge, followed by a deep dive into customizing the look of your Quarto output. In our regular ReproducibiliTea-slot, you will hear about using a markdown-based set-up for writing a dissertation. Friday continues with three presentations on using Quarto for teaching and Open Educational Resources and we will wrap up with a session on using Quarto with git.

You can register for all or just one of the sessions. For some sessions, you will need to bring your own laptop with quarto installed. For others, you can join us for a presentation and discussion without any preparation, this will be indicated in the session description in the detailed schedule.

Please, do not hesitate to contact us with any questions.