Whether you are pursuing a doctorate, teaching, or working on a research project, managing research data well is an essential part of research. The HeFDI Data School helps you build practical skills in key areas of research data management and apply them directly in your own work. The online course series returns in the 2026/27 winter semester.

FAIR hosting for research databases

Establishment of a curation process to improve FAIRness of datasets with a DOI

Electronic lab notebook based on eLabFTW at TU Darmstadt now available for productive use

Integrated digital system for data management and documentation

Project Kick-off: Architectural Research Data Management Pipeline Developed in close collaboration with the research community, a scalable RDM pipeline for architectural research is now underway. The “Architectural Research Data Management Pipeline” will make heterogeneous architectural research data easier to capture, connect, and publish in a FAIR-compliant way.

The DFG has launched a new funding initiative to secure at-risk research data held in repositories abroad and keep them available to the German research community over the long term.