Motivation

The NFDI initiative gave rise to the creation of a myriad of teaching materials on Research Data Management (RDM) and data literacy. The developed teaching framework of this Infrastructure Use Case (IUC01) will help MSE students and technicians to handle the large amount of available documents and will also provide discipline-specific teaching materials and trainings. IUC01 will build on long-standing experience in intercultural trainings and organization of summer schools of the European School of Materials (EUSMAT, PP12), in order to further improve and deepen the expertise within the MSE community. Compared to the first funding period, when more general, introductory materials on RDM within MSE were developed, further activities will focus on providing specific teaching materials and courses related to the solutions developed in the technical Task Areas (TA-MDI, TA-SAI, TA-WLE).

Overview

Main requirements:
- Develop engaging and accessible teaching materials, including slide decks, handouts, video tutorials, and interactive exercises.
- Develop stakeholder specific teaching materials (a.o. enabling the onboarding of students with international background) 
- Organize workshops to roll out created teaching materials. 
Main Task Area: TA-CI
Other related Task Areas: TA-MDI, TA-WLE
Possible connections within NFDI: NFDI4Ing, FAIRmat, PUNCh4NFDI, Base4NFDI NFDI Section Edutrain 
Material/Data:
- Guidelines
- Teaching materials
- Workshops
Main Success Scenario: Teaching materials can effectively enhance the understanding and application of research data management principles, usage of ontologies and workflows among the MSE students.
Added value for the MatWerk community: Teaching personnel can utilize proposed materials to adopt them to their training courses

Exemplary Case Studies

Within the scope of this Infrastructure Use Case (IUC01), summer schools and workshops will be organized under the leadership of Frank Mücklich and Flavio Soldera, the founders of the European School of Materials (EUSMAT, PP12), a unit of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Saarland University. This will establish a platform for disseminating the created teaching materials and technical solutions of NFDI-MatWerk. The interdisciplinary project CRC/TRR 285 (PP03), involving several scientific groups at three different universities, will serve as a test group, contributing to the continuous improvement of the developed teaching framework and technical solutions. FID Materials Sciences (PP27), with working groups at SLUB Dresden and TIB Hannover, will support the activities of IUC01 with their long-standing experience in setting up educational platforms such as the TIB AV-Portal.

Goals

  • A modular teaching framework for RDM and data literacy in MSE, adaptable to various audiences and use cases.
  • Stakeholder-specific approaches addressing diverse needs, including the onboarding of international students.
  • Sustainable dissemination formats through workshops, summer schools, and integration into digital platforms.
  • Continuous validation and improvement through interdisciplinary pilot groups.
  • Broad accessibility and reuse of teaching materials via established educational infrastructures.

Related Participant Projects

All Infrastructure Use Cases

NFDI-MatWerk
Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under the National Research Data Infrastructure – NFDI 38/1 – project number 460247524.

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