EASST 2026
DKZ.2R will be represented by Lukas C. Bossert at EASST 2026 in Kraków. He joins roundtable R12, “Resilient research infrastructures - smaller, simplier, freer, better?”, on Friday, 11 September.
Read MoreTag der Forschungsdaten NRW
For this year’s Research Data Day (Tag der Forschungsdaten) NRW, on the 10th of November 2026, Forschungszentrum Jülich and the RWTH Aachen University teamed up again to host an on-site event, this time at Super C in Aachen, which will be co-organised by DKZ.2R. Similarly to the last years, there will be online talks in the morning. 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.
Read MoreStatistische Woche
On Monday, September 7, this hands-on workshop provides a practical introduction to using Python effectively in HPC environments and equips participants with the knowledge needed to develop, run, and optimize Python workflows on modern computing clusters.
Read MoreFDM-Werkstatt 2026
Community Workshop | 23–25 March 2026 | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
We are excited to announce that DKZ.2R is participating in this year’s FDM-Werkstatt, the annual community workshop organized by fdm.nrw around the tools and practices of Research Data Management (RDM).
The fourth edition of the FDM-Werkstatt brings together researchers, data stewards, and developers from across NRW and beyond for three days of hands-on sessions, collaborative problem-solving, and peer exchange. This year’s event is organized in cooperation with the RDM Competence Centre of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, CEPLAS, DataPLANT, and NFDI4BIOIMAGE.
Read MoreLove Data Week Cologne
DKZ.2R @ “Love Data Week” at University of Cologne
The DKZ.2R project is set to participate at this year’s “Love Data Week” at the University of Cologne on February 11th, 2025. DKZ.2R Consultants Marvin Lorber and Milagros Pacco are sharing their knowledge about Data FAIRness and reproducibility in their hybrid Workshop “How to do FAIR data for reproducible research”. You can take part in the workshop either on-site or via Zoom. To register, please use the Zoom registration Link.
Read MoreINFORMATIK 2025
For the 55th 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 University Potsdam. The DKZ.2R will be taking part in the “Data-Science-Community Workshop” on the first day of the festival. The overarching goal of this workshop is to build bridges and strengthen connections between different data-science related projects like the Data Literacy Centers and other projects receiving permanent funding such as the different NFDI consortia. The DKZ.2R is also taking part in the “RDSC: Research Data and Software Competencies” workshop.
Read MoreData Science Symposium 2025
From September 3rd to September 4th 2025, the Helmoltz-Zentrum Hereon in Geestacht near Hamburg is hosting the tenth Data Science Symposium. This year’s symposium is focusing on Building bridges between methods, applications and infrastructure. The DKZ.2R is taking part in the symposium, presenting a poster on our upcoming Data challenge titled: “Can you Predict the Data? A Workshop on Reproducibility for Language Modelling”.
The DKZ.2R is looking forward to taking part in the conference, discussing our work, and establishing new contacts. Find more information on the DSS website.
Read MoreTag der Forschungsdaten NRW
For this year’s Research Data Day (Tag der Forschungsdaten) NRW, on the 18th of November 2028, Forschungszentrum Jülich and the RWTH Aachen University teamed up again to host an on-site event, this time in Aachen. There will also be a parallel event again at the university Duisburg-Essen. Similarly to the last years, there will be online talks hosted by fdm.NRW in the morning which will be viewed publicly. After Lunch we are starting with the on-site program in Aachen and Essen including different talks and theme tables. More information on the concept and the event can be found shortly on the fdm.nrw webpage.
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DKZ.2R @ “IAS Junior Retreat” at Forschungszentrum Jülich
On May 22nd, the DKZ.2R participated in the IAS Junior Retreat at Forschungszentrum Jülich. The event was aimed at young researchers within Forschungszentrum Jülich. The DKZ.2R used this opportunity to promote our offers and activities and to receive valuable feedback directly from our target group.
Event Details:
- Time: Thursday, May 22nd @ 12:15am - 14:30pm, 2025
- Location: Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52428 Jülich
CoRDI 2025
From the 26th to 28th of August 2025, the RWTH Aachen is hosting the second edition of the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI). The CoRDI stands for more knowledge through better use of research data and the resulting added value for society.
The DKZ.2R is looking forward to taking part in the conference and establishing new contacts. Find more information on the CorDI conference website.
Event Details:
- Time: August 26 - 28, 2025
- Location: C.A.R.L. (acronym for Central Auditorium for Research and Learning), RWTH Aachen University, Claßenstraße 11, 52072 Aachen
Tag der Neugier FZJ
DKZ.2R @ “Tag der Neugier 2025” at Forschungszentrum Jülich
The DKZ.2R project is set to participate at this year’s “Tag der Neugier” (Day of Curiosity) at Forschungszentrum Jülich(FZJ) on September 09th, 2025. This year’s “Tag der Neugier” promises to be a fascinating day for science enthusiasts and curious minds alike. Visitors will have the opportunity to engage with interactive displays and cutting-edge exhibits, provided by a variety of FZJ institutes and research groups, highlighting the FZJ’s contributions to areas such as sustainable energy, AI, and quantum computing.
Read MoreDS-Community Workshop
Following the Data-Science-Community Workshop at the INFORMATIK Festival in September at Hochschule Rhein-Main in Wiesbaden, the organisers from (among others) Data Science Center Bremen invited the Data-Science-Community to a follow-up workshop at Hochschule Bochum. The meeting will take place from March 19th to March 20th and will focus mainly on creating a well-connected community, improve ways of communication, identify synergies, and enable fruitful collaborations. We are looking forward to the meeting and are excited connect with other projects, initiatives, and individuals in the Data-Science-Community.
Read MoreRDA-DE
From February 18th to 19th the DKZ.2R will take part in the RDA-DE conference in Potsdam Germany. The Research Data Alliance Germany is a community aimed at aiding the exchange of data, and supporting the efficient reusability of data. Since 2014, the alliance is organising an annual conference in Potsdam focused on activities such as trainings supporting e.g. data science and data management. In 2025, the DKZ.2R will be part of the conference by presenting a poster on our contribution to creating a (more) data-literate scientific landscape in Germany.
Read MoreRDM Workshop
The RDM Workshop is a multi-day event where participants work together on RDM 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 third RDM workshop is being held in cooperation with the state initiative fdm.nrw, the ULB Münster, and the NFDI4BIOIMAGE. Until January 17th 2025, interested parties can submit their abstracts. More information regarding the application requirements are provided on this website. The DKZ.2R is looking forward to seein you at the RDM Workshop in Münster!
Read MoreE-Science-Tage
From March 12th to 14th the DKZ.2R will take part in the E-Science-Tage conference at University of Heidelberg. The Motto 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.
Read MoreBerlin Science Week
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!
Read MoreData Stewardship goes Germany
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.
Read MoreFDM Workshop
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.
Read MoreINFORMATIK 2024
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.
Read MoreNFDI4Objects Community Meeting 2024
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.
Read MoreStatus Meeting of the German Data Literacy Centers
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.
Read MoreTag der Forschungsdaten NRW
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.
Read MoreCollaborative data processing and documenting using org-babel
A 20-minute EmacsConf 2023 talk showing how Org mode, org-babel, org-roam, CRDT, and export tooling can support collaborative, reproducible data processing and documentation.
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