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Research Data Management Education – Optimize Your Research Data Management!

February 4th, 2025 | by
RDM Trainings

Source: Own illustration

The amount of data generated is growing rapidly, and is the need to efficiently manage, share, and preserve it for the long term. Effective Research Data Management (RDM) ensures that your research results are traceable and can be used by other scientists.

RDM is an integral part of good scientific practice and can have a significant impact on the success of your projects. To support you in this important area, RWTH Aachen University offers a flexible continuing education program in RDM.

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Fall In Love With Coscine – Love Data Week 2025

January 23rd, 2025 | by
Coscine Logo on a Notebook Screen. Hearts and Love Data Week

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From February 10 to 14, 2025, the Love Data Week (LDW) will be celebrated across Germany – the perfect opportunity to finally give our secret passion for research data the shine it deserves. Under the motto “Whose Data Is It, Anyway?”, this year is all about questioning the control over our data with a pinch of curiosity. As in previous years, Coscine will once again be taking part – this year with two workshops!

 

 

 

 

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Always Up to Date – The Coscine-Newsletter

January 16th, 2025 | by
Coscine newsletter.Light blue background, black circle with a white letter symbol inside. A horizontal gray line to the left and a dark blue line to the right.

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Coscine simplifies research data management and offers solutions that support researchers in their daily work. Would you like to stay up to date with the latest news, helpful tips and current developments? Then subscribe to the Coscine newsletter and stay up to date at all times!

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Data Stewards at RWTH Aachen – Interview With Kseniia Dukkart

January 9th, 2025 | by
Picture of Dr. Kseniia Dukkart – Data Steward as a Profession

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Today, we would like to follow up on the series “What does a data steward actually do?” with a new interview under the title “Data Stewards at RWTH Aachen – Interview With […]”. You can find the previous interviews on the RDM blog.

The concept of data stewards is still abstract for many people. Therefore, it is best to show their specific work so that you, as readers of the RDM blog, can get a better idea of what they do. Dr. Kseniia Dukkart is available for today’s interview. We hope you enjoy reading it.

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CRC/TRR219 met and cares about RDM

December 19th, 2024 | by
Two people are standing in front of a flipchart at the annual conference of the Transregio 219 collaborative research center.

Source: IMCAR, UK Aachen

From March 11 to 13, 2024, the Collaborative Research Center Transregio 219 Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Complications in Chronic Kidney Disease” (CRC/TRR219) held its annual meeting in Seeheim-Jugenheim, Hessia. This gathering brought together researchers to discuss progress, challenges, and future directions and to continue to raise awareness of the management of research data (RDM).

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Reflections on the Open Science Festival 2024 in Mainz

December 3rd, 2024 | by
Collage of images; two data stewards from RWTH Aachen University stand in front of an Open Science Festival roll-up banner

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Three data stewards from the technical training and consulting group N. Parks, K. Dukkart and C. Gonzalez of the Research Process and Data Management (RPDM) Department recently had the opportunity to attend the third annual Open Science Festival held at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, an event dedicated to exploring the principles and practices of Open Science.

As in the previous year, the festival brought together a diverse group of participants—from students and researchers to decision-makers and Research Data Management (RDM) professionals under the inspiring motto: “Meet, Share, Inspire, Care”.

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Bring 2025 On! NFDI-MatWerk Spring School in Aachen

November 28th, 2024 | by
symbolic image for the NFDI-MatWerk Spring School 2025 which takaes place from April 8 to 10, 2025

Source: NFDI-MatWerk

The NFDI-MatWerk consortium for materials science and engineering of the National Research Data Infrastructure – NFDI-MatWerk – is organizing a Spring School at the IT Center of RWTH Aachen from April 8 to 10, 2025. The event is being held in cooperation with renowned partners in the field of digitization, including the DKZ.2R, the Forschungszentrum Jülich and the RWTH Institutes of Metal Forming and of Physical Metallurgy and Metal Physics.

Are you interested in digitization solutions for your materials science research? Then read on. This article will tell you everything you need to know about the Spring School and how to register.

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Review of Research Data Day 2024

November 21st, 2024 | by
Participants of the 2024 Research Data Day Jülich-Aachen

Source: Forschungszentrum Jülich

“Into the data garden: Let your research bloom!” was the motto of last week’s nationwide Research Data Day (RDD) in North Rhine-Westphalia. This year’s RDD took place on November 12, 2024 and offered researchers and those interested in RDM an attractive range of information on the topic of Research Data Management (RDM). The aim of the event is to present current developments and services in the field of RDM, to increase the visibility of the topic and to strengthen networking within the community.

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New RDM Guideline at RWTH Aachen University

October 17th, 2024 | by
Hands are on the pad; one hand is holding a ballpoint pen and writing “FDM at RWTH Aachen”

Source: IT Center RWTH Aachen University

At its meeting on June 18, 2024, the rectorate of RWTH Aachen approved the new version of the RDM guideline on the recommendation of the RDM advisory board. In this article, we discuss the background and the most important innovations of the new guideline.

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