📄️ Introduction
"Data literacy from the start!" — This is the guiding principle of Section EduTrain, emphasising the relevance of building data competence across all areas of research and higher education, and opening a path towards cross-disciplinary sustainability of Research Data Management (RDM) and a contemporary data culture.
📄️ WG Target Group and Needs Analysis
Through dialogue with all NFDI consortia and relevant stakeholders, and via requirement analysis workshops, this working group conducts target group and needs analyses — for example, across different competency levels (from students to professors) and different areas of activity (researchers, computing centres, libraries).
📄️ WG Materials Inventory
Training offerings and materials already exist, but are often only known or accessible to a small circle of people (e.g. Train-the-Trainer concepts for RDM or Carpentries materials). This working group identifies such offerings within the consortia, reviews them, makes them usable in the sense of the FAIR principles, and consolidates them.
📄️ WG Modular and Scalable Concept
The goal of this working group is the development and implementation of a shared modular and scalable concept based on the target group profiles and educational objectives developed in the Target Group and Needs Analysis WG.
📄️ WG Teaching Materials and Knowledge Base (DALIA)
The central element of Section EduTrain is a comprehensive offering of event formats and teaching materials on RDM and data literacy generally, covering both cross-disciplinary and discipline-specific needs in a target-group-appropriate way.
📄️ WG Training Formats and Certificate Courses
In addition to the open provision of teaching materials in the Knowledge Base, this working group develops more formalised training in the form of certificate courses — for example, for Data Stewards.
📄️ WG Quality Assurance and Evaluation
In close coordination with the Target Group and Needs Analysis WG, this working group develops a quality assurance concept for the teaching offerings. The concept aims to motivate authors to regularly reflect on whether an update or adaptation of teaching content is needed due to changing needs.
📄️ WG Networking and Outreach
Intensive networking at national and international (European) level contributes to the harmonisation of training and education on RDM content and competencies.
📄️ WG Error Culture in Science
Feedback from the scientific community shows that researchers have a certain reluctance regarding data publication, fearing that errors in their data or scientific work might be discovered. In industry and medicine, so-called no-blame cultures have already been implemented in areas where errors can have serious consequences, allowing teams to feel safe without fear of blame, criticism, or loss of professional reputation.
📄️ WG RDM Helpdesk Network
The goal of this working group is to connect the helpdesk teams of NFDI consortia with the helpdesk teams of institutions, so that all users can find and receive optimal support for their RDM needs.