The event will be held in English and run for two days, on October 25 and November 6, 2024.

Planning research projects and handling and publishing your research results are crucial skills for all researchers and require the competent usage of research data management (RDM). RDM is essential for disseminating research results and thus provides an important step for a career in science and research. Effective data management can help optimize research outputs, increase the impact of your research and support open scientific research.

This training event will provide you with basic RDM skills and help you make informed decisions about managing your research data, regardless of your discipline or academic field. You will receive in-depth training on best practices for documenting, organizing, sharing and archiving your research data following the FAIR data principles.

Practical applications of RDM are the foci, showing you best practices on how to create or improve data management plans for research projects and how to use an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) for documentation purposes. Furthermore, as part of the workshop, you learn about the cross-disciplinary RDM services at KIT. Along the research data life cycle, tools such as Research Data Management Organiser (RDMO), Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data) and the generic research data repository RADAR4KIT and some short exercises round of the training. After completing this workshop, you will be better able to manage your data throughout the research data lifecycle, from project planning to completion.

Learning objectives

Upon completing this workshop, you will be able to:

- Identify legal and data protection issues to be considered in your research and data management plans,

- Apply best practices for documenting, organizing, sharing and archiving your research data,

- Explain the FAIR principles and the importance of metadata for research,

- Create data management plans for your research,

- Use tools and services at KIT for your own research data management purposes (ELNs such as Chemotion and research repositories such as RADAR4KIT),

- And find available information and support for RDM.

This event is open to doctoral researchers and postdocs at KIT who are KHYS members.

The event will be held in English and run for two days, on October 25 and November 6, 2024.

Technical requirements: To participate in this event, you need a stable internet connection, a webcam and a microphone. Participants will receive further detailed information regarding the online-platform prior to the event.

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