Data literacy from the very beginning! Thus, the EduTrain section emphasizes the relevance of building data literacy in all areas of research and higher education teaching and opens a path to cross-disciplinary sustainability of research data management (FDM) and the development of a contemporary data culture.
“Data literacy from the start” has become a paradigm for comprehensive digital – transformation processes. These span the
- Further development of scientific methods and good scientific practice.
- Establishing and enhancing data quality as a resource for value-added knowledge gain and sustainable solutions to societal challenges.
- Developing a better understanding of data for more efficient, sustainable, and cross-disciplinary reuse.
An important prerequisite for this is adherence to the “FAIR” principles” and ensuring accessibility, transparency, and re-usability in both open and protected data spaces at both national and European levels.
The coordinated, user-oriented and tailored teaching of data literacy is of great importance for the competitiveness of Germany as a location for science and research. In the EduTrain section, actors from university teaching and research, libraries and computing centers, as well as from non-university research institutes and state initiatives, therefore work closely together to promote the cultural shift to FAIR data. Following Ridsdale et al. 2015, this includes training and strengthening the “capacity to collect, manage, evaluate, and apply data in critical ways.”
The work in the section is based on three pillars:
- Active dialogue and regular exchange with all NFDI consortia.
- Development of an overall framework for needs-based and target group-specific modules based on a modular and scalable training concept.
- Quality assurance through standardization, community building and didactic enhancement of offerings and materials.
- Establishment of an error culture in all branches of science.
Goals and Success Criteria
- Creation of a common platform for teaching materials as a knowledge base (see DALIA).
- Teaching data literacy and FAIR concepts at all educational and competency levels: Bachelor, Master, PhD, PostDoc, Data Stewards, Professors.
- Develop generic, institutional, and discipline-specific train-the-trainer concepts and FDM content
- Define competency parameters for implementing domain-specific instructional offerings of NFDI consortia.
- Involvement of other stakeholders such as professional associations, professional societies, industry, etc.
The responsible for the working groups meet regularly in a virtual format, the EduTrainExpress.
WP1: Target group and needs analysis
Contact: Britta Petersen, Sonja Herres-Pawlis, Peter F. Pelz
WP2: Inventory of materials
Contact: Peter F. Pelz, Sonja Herres-Pawlis
WP3: Development of a modular and scalable concept
Contact: Timo Mühlhaus, Kerstin Helbig
WP4: Development of joint multidimensional teaching materials and building a Knowledge Base
Contact: Kai-Christian Bruhn, Johannes Liermann, Peter F. Pelz
WP5: Training formats and certificate course
Contact: Konrad Förstner, Birte Lindstädt, Anja Perry
WP6: Quality assurance and evaluation
together with WP4
WP7: Networking and Outreach
Contact: Jana Neumann, Kerstin Helbig, Sonja Herres-Pawlis
WP8: Error culture in science
Contact: John D. Joliffe
Working Group RDM-Helpdesk Network
Contact: Martha Stellmacher, Marcus Schmidt, Judith Engel. Marina Lemaire
More Infos
Development of the Knowledge-Base
To achieve the goal of creating a federated knowledge base, the project DALIA – Knowledge-Base for “FAIR data Usage and Supply” will develop a central entry point for a federated knowledge base that includes teaching and learning materials to build and strengthen data literacy and knowledge related to FAIRe data usage (data science) and supply (FAIR research data management).
The project DALIA is the infrastructure project of the NFDI section EduTrain and will be handed over to the NFDI association after completion. Already during the term of the project, DALIA ensures through the creation of sustainable synergies that teaching and learning materials for the development of data literacy and relevant didactic concepts are offered in the NFDI association and continuously further developed according to demand.
- https://dini.de/ag/dininestor-ag-forschungsdaten/
- https://www.forschungsdaten.org/index.php/UAG_Schulungen/Fortbildungen
- Materialsammlung zu Schulungen im Forschungsdatenmanagement (DINI/nestor UAG Schulungen/Fortbildungen)
- https://forschungsdaten.info/ or https://forschungsdaten.info/praxis-kompakt/tutorials-kurse-und-anleitungen/
- https://datacarpentry.org/
- https://www.go-fair.org/
- https://zenodo.org/communities/dcc-rdm-training-materials/?page=1&size=20
- https://eudat.eu/
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Sonja Herres-Pawlis
(RWTH Aachen)
Deputy speaker: Prof. Dr. Peter Pelz (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Participating institutions
- Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
- Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
- Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW)
- Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus–Senftenberg
- Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
- Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
- Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e.V. – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften –
- Deutsche Allianz Meeresforschung (DAM) e.V.
- Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e.V.
- Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e.V
- Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin (ZB MED) – Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
- Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd-Verband)
- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
- EMBL – Europäisches Laboratorium für Molekularbiologie
- FernUniversität in Hagen
- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
- Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
- Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
- GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- Germanisches Nationalmuseum – Leibniz-Forschungsmuseum für Kulturgeschichte (GNM)
- Gesellschaft für Biologische Daten e.V. (GFBio e.V.)
- Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V.
- GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
- Helmholtz Zentrum für Infektionsforschung
- Hochschule Bochum
- Hochschule Darmstadt
- Hochschule Mainz
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- IAML – Deutschland e. V.
- Innovationszentrum für Prozessdatentechnik (Inprodat) e.V.
- Internationales Quellenlexikon der Musik e. V.
- Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU)
- Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
- Leibniz-Institut für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e.V.
- Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V. (IPHT)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
- Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland
- Medizinischer Fakultätentag e.V.
- Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
- OFFIS e.V.
- Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
- Philipps-Universität Marburg
- RWTH Aachen
- Technische Hochschule Köln
- Technische Universität Berlin
- Technische Universität Braunschweig
- Technische Universität Clausthal
- Technische Universität Darmstadt
- Technische Universität Dortmund
- Technische Universität Ilmenau
- Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
- Technische Universität München
- TIB – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek
- U Bremen Research Alliance e.V.
- Universität Bielefeld
- Universität Bremen
- Universität der Künste Berlin
- Universität des Saarlandes
- Universität Duisburg-Essen
- Universität Hamburg
- Universität Kassel
- Universität Konstanz
- Universität Leipzig
- Universität Mannheim
- Universität Münster
- Universität Paderborn
- Universität Trier
- Universität zu Köln
- Universitätsmedizin Greifswald KdöR
- ZPID – Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie
Participating persons
- Ann-Christin Andres
- Eckhart Arnold
- Manuel Bärwald
- Maik Bierwirth
- Katarina Blask
- Andreas Blätte
- Thomas Bocklitz
- Claudia Börner
- Sophie Boße
- Zeyd Boukhers
- Dominik Brilhaus
- Kai-Christian Bruhn
- Jens Dierkes
- Georg Düchs
- Yomna Eid
- Elisabeth Elschner
- Stephan Ferenz
- Konrad Förstner
- Fabian Franke
- Fabian Fricke
- Holger Fröhlich
- Livia Gertis
- Roger Gläser
- Rainer Godel
- Monica Gonzalez-Marquez
- Anne Gresser
- Laura Grunwald-Eckhardt
- Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt
- Sophie Gabriele Habinger
- Malte Hagener
- Linus Hartmann-Enke
- Canan Hastik
- Daniela Hausen
- David Hecker
- Philipp Hegel
- Kerstin Helbig
- Patrick Helling
- Kilian Hensen
- Sonja Herres-Pawlis
- Jan-Ocko Heuer
- Tanja Hörner
- Svenja Hövelmann
- Martin Thomas Horsch
- Wolfgang Huber
- Sabrina Jordan
- Nicole Jung
- Carsten Keßler
- Gábor Kismihók
- Wibke Kleina
- Olaf Kletke
- Norbert Kockmann
- Philipp Konhäuser
- Emmelie Korell
- Alessandra Kuntz
- Jonas Kuppler
- Patrick Langner
- Karoline Lemke
- Ursula Lehmkuhl
- Hao Li
- Johannes Liermann
- Birte Lindstädt
- Ulrike Lucke
- Timo Mühlhaus
- Andreas Münzmay
- Jorge Murcia Serra
- Robert Nasarek
- Janna Neumann
- Michael Oellermann
- David Ohse
- Jochen Ortmeyer
- Norbert Palz
- Christoph Pauly
- Peter Pelz
- Anja Perry
- Britta Petersen
- Judith Pfeiffer
- Julia Philipp
- Klaus Pietschmann
- Christopher Purr
- Anne Purschwitz
- Arnulf Quadt
- Jessica Rex
- Thomas Richter
- Manuela Richter
- Juliane Röder
- Jürgen Rohrwild
- Cristina Martins Rodrigues
- Kristin Sauerland
- Katharina Sauther-Patrascu
- Ines Schmahl
- Stefan Schmunk
- Anke Scholz
- Fabian Schubö
- Julian Schulz
- Andrea Schrader
- Volker Schwartze
- Alexander Sczyrba
- Melanie Seltmann
- Ranjit Singh
- Benjamin Slowig
- Emanuel Söding
- Alexander Stark
- Alexandro Steinert
- Britta Steinke
- Florian Strauß
- Nikolai Svoboda
- Daniel Tschink
- Justine Vandendorpe
- Thomas Wachtler
- Ralf Wehrspohn
- Katharina Weiß
- Jörg Wettlaufer
- Gauvain Wiemer
- Kathrin Woywod
- Atinkut Alamirrew Zeleke
- Thomas Zobel
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