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HeFDI Data Week 2025
First held in 2020 as the HeFDI Plenary and continuously developed since then, the HeFDI Data Week is a permanent annual event organized by the HeFDI network in the context of the nationwide Digital Day (Digitaltag). This year, it consists of two - independently accessible - parts:
HeFDI Data Week 2025 - Data Stewards in Action! Workshop (June 24th)
This year, we start the HeFDI Data Week off with a Live-Event at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, focussing on Data Stewards active in research groups, research projects and research institutions all across Hessen. The workshop offers an opportunity to share best practices, develop solutions, and expand their professional networks.
HeFDI Data Week 2025 - Event Tracks (June 25th-27th)
Our online Event Tracks for all interested parties focus on tools and services for disciplines from NFDI Consortia, Legal Aspects of Research Data Management as well as Research Data Management and ArtificiaI Intelligence! Further information on the tracks will be provided shortly here and via our monthly newsletter - so feel free to register!
Data Stewards in Action! June 24th, 2025
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Description
The “Data Stewards in Action” workshop will take place on June 24, 2025, from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at Goethe-University Frankfurt. It offers an opportunity for research data management (RDM) professionals in Hessian universities and research institutions to share best practices, develop solutions, and expand their professional networks.
Data stewards play an important role in assisting researchers as they make their way through the complex RDM services and policies as well as the various infrastructures. This workshop is conceived as an interactive forum through which participants will be able to discuss best practices, identify problems and come up with solutions to the challenges facing data stewardship in the region. Using discussions and networking sessions as well as other interactive formats, the participants will get practical understanding of the current developments in the responsibilities of data stewards and the support available at the institutional and national level.
The programme includes spaces for knowledge-sharing such as a poster session and a “Minute Madness” session where attendees can exchange ideas. A World Café will offer a chance to discuss in detail topics such as the definitions of roles, successful strategies for implementation and alignment with service centers facilitating a practical discussion on the realities of data stewardship.
Participants will also learn about resources provided by HeFDI, the NFDI, and local service centers, which will help to promote a more coherent and efficient approach to research data management.
No matter how long you have been working as a data steward, this workshop will help you improve your skills, exchange experiences and engage with other data stewards from Hesse.
The event will be held in English.
For inquiries, please contact forschungsdaten@ub.uni-frankfurt.de.
Key Questions
- What are the goals, roles and tasks of data stewards? What are the specific needs?
- What specific support services are available (local, HeFDI, NFDI)?
- How do the data stewards wish to cooperate with, but also differentiate themselves from, local service centers and central services?
- What good practice and success stories can be identified?
Fees
Participation in the event is free of charge.
Location
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Campus Westend, Casino Building
Raum 1.802
Grüneburgplatz 1, 60323 Frankfurt am Main
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Tuesday, 24th June 2025
| Topic | Speaker, chair, participants | |
| 08.30 - 09.00 | Welcome Coffee | |
| 09.00 - 09.15 | Opening Session | |
| 09.15 - 09.45 | Your local Service Centers for RDM, HeFDI and NFDI - benefits for your Data Stewardship | |
| 09.45 - 10.15 | Minute Madness | Everyone presenting a poster is invited to promote his/her poster within one minute to the audience |
| 10.15 - 10.30 | Networking Session with Coffee | |
| 10.30-11.30 | Poster Session I | The first half of the posters are presented an will be discussed |
| 11.30-12.30 | Poster Session II | The second half of the posters are presented an will be discussed |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch Break | |
| 13.30-15.00 |
World Café: (1) Identity and understanding of roles (2) Success stories and best practices (3) Challenges and problems (4) General needs, concerns and requests for HeFDI and local service centers |
On our world café tables, we discuss the data stewards' generic and specific needs and topics in depth |
| 15.00 - 15.30 |
Networking Session with Coffee |
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| 15.30 - 16.00 |
WrapUp: Core results of the World Cafe tables, outlook and farewell |
On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (June 25th, 26th and 27th), the HeFDI Data Week continues with event tracks including talks and workshops on Tools and offers for disciplines from NFDI consortia, Legal Aspects of Research Data Management, as well as Research Data Management and Artificial Intelligence!
This offer is accessible online and free of charge. It is aimed at researchers, educators, students, and anyone interested in learning more about FAIR Data and Code, practical tools and available services. The newest developments and challenges coming along with those are presented and discussed with providers and users alike.
Most of the programme has already been confirmed; however, a few details are still lacking. So feel free to register for our monthly newsletter if you want to receive more information soon!
Wednesday, 25th June 2025
Track 1: Discipline Meets Data: Tools and Services for Research Data Management
Effective research data management (RDM) requires solutions tailored to the specific needs of different disciplines. In this track, consortia from the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) present a range of disciplinary tools and services that support researchers in handling, organizing, and preserving their data. From the humanities to life sciences and engineering, we will highlight and discuss established and emerging support offers. (Note: Event titles may be subject to change.)
| Time | Event title | Speaker(s), chair, participant(s) | Description |
| 09h-10h15 | Tool "Semantic Kompakkt" | Zoe Schubert (NFDI4Culture/TIB) | tba |
| 10h30-11h45 | Offers by NFDI4Memory | Dr. Felix Bach, NFDI4Memory/FIZ Karlsruhe | tba |
| 12h30-13h45 | tba | NFDI4ING | |
| 14h00-15h15 | VAT Tool. A System for Data-Driven Biodiversity Research | Prof. Dr. Bernhard Seeger (NFDI4Biodiversity/Philipps-Universität Marburg) | tba |
Thursday, 26th June 2025
Track 2: Legal and Ethical Aspects of Research Data Management
Researchers working with (sensitive) personal data need to meet a range of legal and ethical requirements. Which support is available for researchers? How can research data be shared, often under restricted access? The track addresses the topic from various disciplinary perspectives, always including theory as well as specific case studies. Speakers have both legal and non-legal backgrounds. (Note: Event titles may be subject to change.)
| Time | Event title | Speaker(s), chair, participant(s) | Description |
09h-10h15 |
Ethics in the nursing sciences | Dr. Andrea Kuhn (Head of & Network Coordinator Health Research Network, Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society) |
tba |
| 10h30-11h45 | tba | Neelam Vishen (University of Mannheim, Base4NFDI Service Steward Data Protection & Anonymisation) | tba |
| 12h30-13h45 | Offers of the German Network of Educational Research Data (Verbund Forschungsdaten Bildung) for Researchers | Anna Thaut (DIPF Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation) | |
| 14h00-15h15 | Research Data Management and the multiple layers of law | Dr. Oliver Vettermann (FIZ Karlsruhe) |
Friday, 27th June 2025
Track 3: Research Data Management (RDM) and AI
The track on data management and artificial intelligence covers a broad field: on the one hand, it looks at specific tools such as noScribe that can support data analysis. On the other hand, it also looks at how generative AI can support research data management in general. The use of AI in biomedical engineering is also considered as a more specific use case. The general lecture on whether and to what extent science and machines can really work together will be the crowning finale. (Note: Event titles may be subject to change.)
| Time | Event title | Speaker(s), chair, participant(s) | Description |
| 09h-10h15 | Automatic transcription with noscribe | Dr. Kai Dröge (Hochschule Luzern / Institut für Sozialforschung der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) | tba |
| 10h30-11h45 | „FAIReinfacht – How can generative AI support Research Data Management? | Prof. Dr. Sandra Geisler (RWTH Aachen University) | tba |
| 12h30-13h45 | Use Case "Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering" | Silvia Becker & PD Dr. Axel Löwe (Institute of Biomedical Engineering, KIT) | tba |
| 14h00-15h15 | Please meet AI, our dear new colleague. In other words: can scientists and machines truly cooperate? | Dr. Thomas Arnold (UKP Lab, Technical University Darmstadt) | tba |
