Institutionalised and sustainable research data management

As part of this three-year project, local expertise in research data management (RDM) will be developed at the participating universities, RDM and IT services will be provided, and networking and knowledge transfer will be promoted.

Project status:
completed
Period:
–
Type:
Research project
Profile:
Digital Space – Data, Interaction, Knowledge
Organisational Unit:
Cooperation partners:
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg in Cottbus European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) Babelsberg Film University Eberswalde University of Applied Sciences (FH) for Sustainable Development Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences (FH) Wildau University of Applied Sciences (FH) University of Potsdam (including the former Potsdam University of Education)
Project participants:
  • Heike Neuroth (Projektleiter/-in)
  • Christine Burkart (Projektkoordinator/-in)
  • Claus Spiecker (Projektkoordinator/-in)
  • Janina Weber (Studentische Hilfskraft)
  • Carsten Schneemann (Wiss. Mitarbeiter/-in)
  • Paul Walter (Wiss. Mitarbeiter/-in)

The eight state-funded higher education institutions in Brandenburg – five universities of applied sciences and three universities – had already been working closely together since the end of 2019 on the ‘Research Data Management Brandenburg’ project, funded by the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture (MWFK) (FDM-BB), funded by the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture (MWFK), from which the state-level FDM-BB initiative emerged. Following the project’s approval in October 2022, the participating higher education institutions can look forward to funding of approximately 2.5 million euros from the BMBF and the MWFK to establish and institutionalise sustainable research data management as part of the IN-FDM-BB project.

Thanks to several years of preparatory work within the FDM-BB project – including an analysis of the science policy environment, qualitative and quantitative surveys of the requirements at Brandenburg’s higher education institutions, and the development of recommendations for action and implementation – it has been possible to identify specific areas of action for the research data strategy, which was adopted on thr 18th of July 2022 by the MWFK and the BLHP (Brandenburg State Conference of University Presidents). Building on this, over the coming years, local expertise will be developed at the universities, FDM services and IT services will be offered, and networking and knowledge transfer will be promoted.

Project website: https://fdm-bb.de

Publications

Neuroth, H., Büttner, M., Goßner, B., Jacob, B., Nowoitnick, J., Schiller, C., & Straka, J. (2026, February 24–25). Landesinitiative Forschungsdatenmanagement in Brandenburg (FDM-BB): Vorarbeiten, Umsetzung und Implementierung [Poster presentation]. RDA Deutschland Tagung 2026, Potsdam, Deutschland. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18492617
Spiecker, C., Büttner, M., Goßner, B., Jacob, B., Mertzen, D., Musolff, M., Nowoitnick, J., Schiller, C., Schreiber, S., Straka, J., & Wolff, I. (2025). W 1.3.2 Evaluation der FDM-Strategie. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17281536
Haase, C., Schreiber, S., Mittelbach, J., Büttner, M., Goßner, B., Hirsch, S., Hörmannsdorfer, S., Kienbaum, J., Kossack, S., Meixner, C., Mertzen, D., Musolff, M., Nowoitnick, J., Schiller, C., Schneemann, C., Straka, J., Weise, K., Wolff, I., & Wuttke, U. (2025). Zertifikatskurs "Forschungsdatenmanagement für Forschende und FDM-Verantwortliche" 2025 der Landesinitiative Forschungsdatenmanagement in Brandenburg. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17540130
Helbig, K., Jäckel, D., Mertzen, D., Orozco Prado, L.-S., Schneemann, C., & Söring, S. (2024). As You Like It?: Bedarfserhebungen als Instrumente der FDM-Strategieentwicklung in universitären, regionalen und nationalen Verbundkontexten. Bausteine Forschungsdatenmanagement, 2024(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.17192/bfdm.2024.1.8623
Neuroth, H., Mertzen, D., Schneemann, C., Straka, J., & Wolff, I. (2024). Nachhaltiges Forschungsdatenmanagement in Brandenburg: Auf dem Weg zu einer landesweiten Institutionalisierung. In M. Klein, D. Krupka, C. Winter, M. Gergeleit, & L. Martin (Eds.), Informatik 2024: Lock in or log out? Wie digitale Souveränität gelingt (pp. 2073–2080). Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. https://doi.org/10.18420/inf2024_181
Haase, C., Kuhnau, P., Mertzen, D., Musolff, M., Panitz, M., Schiller, C., Schreiber, S., Spiecker, C., & Wolf, I. (2024). W 1.2.2 Auswertung Bedarfserhebung mit daraus folgenden Aktivitäten. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11371695
Zeunert, M., Schneemann, C., Schreiber, S., & Straka, J. (2024). Wir Bibliotheksbeschäftigte als integrale Player in den Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen. O-Bib : das Offene Bibliotheksjournal, 11(4), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.5282/o-bib/6083
Schneemann, C., Mertzen, D., & Neuroth, H. (2023). "Forschungsdatenmanagement für Studierende": Zertifikatskurs der Landesinitiative für Forschungsdatenmanagement in Brandenburg. In W. Semar (Ed.), Nachhaltige Information – Information für Nachhaltigkeit: Proceedings des 17. Internationalen Symposiums für Informationswissenschaften (ISI 2023) (pp. 422–428). Verlag Werner Hülsbusch.
Lemaire, M., Neuroth, H., Mertzen, D., Schneemann, C., Boda, V., Engelhardt, C., Orozco Prado, L.-S., Besser, M., & Goßner, B. (2023, March 1–3). FDM-Governance-Strukturen in den Bundesländern: Workshop zur Diskussion der Ergebnisse einer Analyse der Governance-Steckbriefe der FDM-Landesinitiativen [Paper presentation]. E-Science-Tage 2023, Heidelberg, Deutschland.
Mertzen, D., Schneemann, C., Woywod, K., & Neuroth, H. (2023, June 21–22). Insights from Brandenburg's first RDM-Spring School for students [Poster presentation]. RDM Trainer Network Meeting, Berlin, Deutschland. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8169083
Haase, C., Mertzen, D., Schreiber, S., & Schneemann, C. (2023). W 2.1.3 Bedarfserhebung mit Literaturrecherche und explorativen Interviews zur Konzeption und Durchführung modularer FDM-Zertifikatskurse für FDM-Verantwortliche, Forschende und Studierende. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8354945
Mertzen, D., Neuroth, H., Schneemann, C., & Woywod, K. (2023). Zertifikatskurs „Forschungsdatenmanagement für Studierende“ der Landesinitiative für Forschungsdatenmanagement in Brandenburg. In M. Klein, D. Krupka, C. Winter, & V. Wolhgemut (Eds.), Informatik 2023: Desgining Futures: Zukünfte gestalten (pp. 95–105). Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. https://doi.org/10.18420/inf2023_08