TKFDM is the point of contact for all Thuringian universities and focuses on research data management. This includes all aspects of data management that arise in the context of research projects. In addition to the members of the TKFDM of the Thuringian universities, there are Data Stewards operating throughout Thuringia and contact persons at the universities of applied sciences in the FDM-HAWK project.

The competence network:

• provides knowledge about all aspects of research data management (rdm)
• offers trainings and workshops
• provides information about existing infrastructures and is involved in their further development (REFODAT)
• connects local stakeholders (e.g. vice president for research and study, information centres for research funding, CIOs, datacenters, libraries, legal departments) and the universities of applied sciences
• consolidates already existing  research data management expertise in Thuringia
• cooperates closely with the BMBF-funded HAWK project in order to offer consistent rdm services throughout Thuringia
• contributes to national and international rdm initiatives (NFDI, RDA, DI-NI/nestor etc)
• monitors developments in the areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, open science, high-performance computing, electronic lab books

For general questions please contact the network via email at info@forschungsdaten-thueringen.de. For questions concerning your local institution or specific reserach disciplines, you can also contact the members of the network directly.

If you would like to stay up to date on all our news, activities and events, please also consider subscribing to our mailing list: https://lserv.uni-jena.de/mailman/listinfo/rdm-thueringen

You can also find our content on Twitter where we post about our latest activities and inform you about activities of other FDM partner organizations. We upload all of our recorded events to YouTube so that they can be watched later. In our Zenodo community, we publish all materials under an open license, which means that you can also use them freely.

The BMBF-funded project FDM - HAW Kompetenzcluster Jena-Erfurt-Nordhausen-Schmalkalden (FDM-HAWK, grant number 16FDFH107A) aims to establish RDM support structures at universities of applied sciences in Thuringia and to support RDM model projects in the natural sciences, in engineering and the social sciences.