From March 12th to 14th the DKZ.2R will take part in the E-Science-Tage conference at University of Heifelberg. The Mottp of this iteration is “Research Data Management: Challenges in a Changing World!”. The E-Science-Tage is an interdisciplinary conference series of the topics of reseach data management and open science. We will present the concept of the DKZ.2R in a 20-minute presentation and talk about how we contribute to changing the culture towards more FAIR research and what supporting early career researches in their data literacy has got to do with challenges in the changing world. Find more information about the conference on their webpage .

From March 26th to 28th the DKZ.2R will host their first annual Data Competence College as an in-person event at the IT-Center of RWTH Aachen University. More infos on the event and how to take part will follow soon. Stay tuned!

DKZ.2R teamed up with another data literacy center QUADRIGA, NFDIxCS, and NFDI4DS, to host a workshop on the topic of “Research Data and Research Software Competencies from the Perspective of Computer and Data Science” at the Themenwoche Digitale Kompetenzen in der Wissenschaft of the Volkswagenstiftung. Together with a diverse group of 35 participants from different data-literacy initiatives we will explore intersections between projects, present successful educational formats, identify gaps in current educational offerings, and collaboratively create new formats and an overall didactic framework. We are very much looking forward to this workshop week which will happen from the 2nd to 4th of December 2024 at the Xplanatorium in Hannover Herrenhausen. Find the agenda and more information about the workshop on this dedicated website

As part of our “Trainings” work package, the DKZ.2R plans to curate and provide a variety of trainings, seminars and courses. We will start by offering an official The Carpentries Workshop on the 21st and 22nd of November 2024 on the topic of “plotting and programming in Python”. The Carpentries Workshop by DKZ.2R: Python basics and plotting The workshop will be hosted on-site at RWTH Aachen University and is open for up to 25 participants. The workshop material is available online and will be presented by official carpentry instructors who will walk you through the steps and are available for questions the whole time. The course is teaching the very basics of Python and although some experience with other scripting/programming languages is beneficial, no prior knowledge is required for the course. Furthermore, the event is open for participants from all domains. If you are interested in taking part in the workshop you can sign up here .

The DKZ.2R presents, as a part of our “Trainings” work package, a Carpentries Workshop on the 18th and 22nd of November on the topic of “Introduction to the Unix Shell, Git, and GitLab”. This is an officail Carpentries Workshop and will be hosted on-site at RWTH Aachen University.

Workshop material is available online and will be presented by official Carpentries instructors, who will guide you through the concepts with the help of hands-on exercises and personalized support. The course is designed for beginners and is open to participants from all domains. No prior knowledge is required. If you are interested in taking part in the workshop, you can sign up here .

For this year’s Research Data Day (Tag der Forschungsdaten) NRW, on the 12th of November 2024, Forschungszentrum Jülich and the RWTH Aachen University teamed up again to host an on-site event, this time in Jülich, which will be co-organised by DKZ.2R. Similarly to the last years, there will be online talks in the morning which will be viewed publicly. After Lunch we are starting with the on-site program including different talks and theme tables. More information on the concept an the event can be found under this link .

Every year the Berlin Science Week transforms the city into a vibrant festival of scientific ideas and debates. With over 180 participating organisations and more than 600 involved scientists, artists, politicians, and other inspiring initiators, Berlin Science Week captivates a diverse audience of over 30,000 participants. From our dynamic festival hubs, CAMPUS at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, and Science & Culture FORUM at Holzmarkt 25, to various venues across the city, and online events from around the world, we ignite a lively platform for public exchange around topics of science and research and their role for a better tomorrow for all. Join the conversation, meet curious minds from around the world, and engage with new ideas and perspectives. Together with NFDIxCS, the DKZ.2R is organising an interactive exhibition at the “Museum für Naturkunde” on the first and second of November. We hope to meet you there!

From the 25th to 27th of September 2024, the Leibnitz Centre for Archaeology (LEIZA) & Mainz University of Applied Sciences are hosting the second NFDI4Objects Community meeting. There will be a diverse program with workshops focused on students and young researchers as well as teachers and other interested parties on the topic of research data management of object-related data. Furthermore, the NFDI4Objects will present their annual report, host poster sessions, and ignite talks, and organise collaboration and community workshops. In one of the poster sessions, we (DKZ.2R) will be presenting our poster titled: “The Rhine-Ruhr Center for Scientific Data Literacy (DKZ.2R) bridging the gaps to NDFI4Objects” The full program (in German) can be found on the NFDI4Objects Website . As the DKZ.2R is only funded for a duration of three years, the various NDFI consortia play a major part in finding ways to establishing our offers and making them last. As part of our networking strategy we are also constantly exchanging ideas and looking for synergies between project to use our ressources as efficiently as possible.

For the 54th time the German Computer Science Society is celebrating the INFORMATIK Festival , an event dedicated to networking and the exchange of information and skills between people working in computer science. This year’s event is hosted by the Hochschule Rhein-Main in Wiesbaden. The DKZ.2R will be taking part in the “Data-Science-Community Workshop” on the last day of the festival. The overarching goal of this workshop is to build bridges and lay the groundwork for sustainable connections between different data-science related projects like the newly founded Data Literacy Centers and other projects receiving permanent funding such as the different NFDI consortia.

From September 19th to 20th the BMBF is inviting representatives of all eleven Data Literacy Centers in Germany to come together in Berlin and discuss the progress and the difficulties of the projects. There will be two days of workshops with topics ranging from discussions of domain-specific data literacy to strategies and concept for stabilizing data literacy projects. Furthermore, there will be plenty of time for networking with the other Data literacy centers, as well as invited speakers from other data literacy and research data management initiatives such as the NFDI. Our main coordinator, Alicia Janz, and Lukas Bossert from RWTH Aachen University will represent the DKZ.2R at the meeting. We are looking forward to gaining insights into the work of other data literacy centers and learning from their experiences and the measures they are taking to support scientist in their work with research data.

On the 11th and 12th of September the RWTH Aachen is hosting the third Data Stewardship goes Germany event. The event was founded by TU9, an alliance of leading technical universities in Germany as a networking workshop for participants working in Research Data Management in Science and Technology. This year’s event is focused on the participants and their networks regarding Data Stewardship. As DKZ.2R we are offering different consulting-services and support structures for scientists working with research data. We are therefore very happy to be taking part in the DsgG workshop and connect with other people involved in supporting scientists in their work with ever-increasing amounts of data.

The FDM Workshop is a multi-day event where participants work together on FDM tools and discover new features and application scenarios: from eLabFTW to Coscine and DataLab to LiaScript - in community-led sessions in English, participants can try out and exchange ideas.

The second FDM workshop is being held in cooperation with the state initiative fdm.nrw, our data literacy center DKZ.2R and the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University . The event begins with a kick-off event on Monday, 18.03.2024 from 15:00. This will be followed by two days of work. There will be 12 thematic sessions, which will largely take place in parallel and in English. The content and required prior knowledge (e.g. Python) can be found in the respective session abstracts on the fdm.nrw website.