The course offers the unique opportunity to acquire skills in RDM and its application in service areas at universities and research institutions in a part-time, systematic and certified manner. It is aimed at employees from science-related infrastructure areas and research.

The following topics are covered:

• Research data life cycle
• Data types
• Research processes in various subject areas
• open science
• Hacking and experimenting with data
• research project management
• Technical infrastructure for repositories
• metadata
• sustainable data management
• relevant legal aspects
• Approaches to counselling and communicating RDM topics for different target groups

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The Research Data Management certificate course is a cooperation between TH Köln, ZBIW, the State Initiative for Research Data Management - fdm.nrw and ZB MED. It has been offered to interested parties from North Rhine-Westphalia since 2021 and throughout Germany since 2023.

Information at a glance

• What: Certificate course in research data management (in German)
• When: Application until 28 April 2025
• Who: Employees from science-related infrastructure areas and from active research
• Where: Classroom sessions in Cologne + live online meetings from September 2025
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