RDM Curriculum of the UA Ruhr

The research data management curriculum of the University Alliance Ruhr offers regular basic training courses on research data management. These are intended to give participants an overview of the various aspects of research data management with a focus on practical application in everyday research.

Advanced training courses  are also offered for the various aspects of research data management - immersing in the depths of a topic. Depending on the topic, the training courses are combined with a hands-on workshop on the use of a specific tool.

As a member of the RUB or the UA Ruhr, you can participate in all programmes as long as no other specification is given in the event description.

After actively participating in a training session, you will automatically receive a certificate of participation. Please keep this in a safe place, as we no longer store the names of participants once the certificates have been sent out, and we cannot issue a replacement if the certificate is lost.

Members of the UA Ruhr can also apply for the RDM Badge if they have completed a basic training course and two events from the advanced module. To do so, they simply need to send these three certificates of participation to their university’s RDM service.  

If you have any further questions about the RDM curriculum, please contact us at any time: researchdata@rub.de 

basic training courses – event dates and registration 

advanced training courses – event dates and registration 

The dates are updated regularly, no later than the end of February/beginning of March and the end of August/beginning of September, for the following term. 

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In our basic training courses, you will learn what a data management plan (DMP) can do for your project work, which information you record in a DMP, and which tools you can use for this. In addition, you will get practical tips on metadata, on how to organize and store your data, and on the possibilities of data publication.

• Duration: 7 h
• Location: in person at the RUB or the UDE, as well as online
• Target group: PhD students, PostDocs, and all interested persons
• Language: English / German 
• Number of participants: min. 10, max. 20

We offer the basic training courses cross-disciplinary or with subject-related focus. The subject recommendation and focus are intended to serve as a guide for your choice of event. The event is freely selectable. See which focus fits your subject or your research!

In our advanced training courses, you will learn about special topics of RDM and how to use (specialized) tools. The events are usually offered online.

• Duration: ca. 2 h
• Location: online (prerequisite: camera and microphone)
• Target group: PhD students, PostDocs, and all interested persons
• Language: English / German 
• Number of participants: min. 10, max. 20
• Topics:
• Hands-On for Tools: ReSeeD, Coscine, GitLab, R Notebooks, Python, eLabFTW, RDMO
• Thematic aspects: Data management plan, data reuse & reusable data, describing and documenting research data, Open Science (Framework), FAIR qualitative data, working with sensible data
• Dates: Regular updates – the dates for the next term are posted online at the end of February/beginning of March and at the end of August/beginning of September for the following term. 
• NRW-wide opening: As part of the RDM network for training, consulting, and curation , we are opening up some of our advanced training courses to members of universities in North Rhine-Westphalia. An overview of the NRW-wide training offerings can be found on the website of the State Initiative for Research Data Management – fdm.rw.