KonsortSWD - Consortium for the Social, Behavioural, Educational and Economic Sciences

VerbundFDB participates in the development of the national research data infrastructure for the social, behavioural, educational and economic sciences within the framework of the NFDI.

Together with other partners, VerbundFDB is engaged in the development of  KonsortSWD, the national research data infrastructure for the social, behavioural, educational and economic sciences. As one of many subject-specific consortia, KonsortSWD is part of the  National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), which has been funded by the federal and state governments with approximately 70 million euros per year since 2020.

Within KonsortSWD, VerbundFDB is involved in two work packages:

• Qualidatanet - Sharing and re-using qualitative research data: This project is about the development of a federated research data infrastructure for qualitative social research data. (Dirk Weisbrod from the VerbundFDB team is involved).
• Supporting research data management in qualitative social research: Tools, templates and guidelines on key ethical, legal and practical challenges to research data management of qualitative data are being developed. (Nadeshda Jung from the VerbundFDB team is involved.)

KonsortSWD collaborates with many RDCs and institutions – also from the field of educational research – to develop services that support researchers in sharing, using and managing data. An excerpt:

• As part of the    RDCnet work package, access conditions to sensitive, non-anonymised data are being improved by networking guest researcher’s workstations.

• As part of the    MICA (Making Information Commonly Available) work package, an information and discussion platform is being created around questions of data resources and data use.

• The work package    RDC Support supports the diverse landscape of RDCs in standardising and harmonising their work processes and offers.

• The work package    RDM Skills aims to support research data management advisors and research data management staff by providing an online platform for teaching and information materials on research data management.

 to the overview of all KonsortSWD services