The Project

Our goals

The VerbundFDB is building a technological, organisational and legal infrastructure. A focus is placed on four central objectives. The network secures research data in a protected environment, offers research data and instruments after archival review and preparation, provides information about the study and data stock at a central location, and provides qualification and training on data management issues.

The project team

The three project partners contribute their respective expertise to the network. DIPF is responsible for the coordination and qualitative data sets, while GESIS is responsible for the quantitative survey and aggregate data, and the IQB for quantitative data from competence and achievement tests.

• Project management: Doris Bambey (DIPF), Malte Jansen (IQB), Reiner Mauer (GESIS)
• External coordination and public relations (DIPF): Sonja Bayer, Ramona Gietzen, Alexia Meyermann
• Coordination of technical development, documentation: Dirk Weisbrod (DIPF)
• Decentralized data management (documentation, indexing): Karoline Harzenetter (GESIS), Nadeshda Jung (DIPF), Claudia Neuendorf (IQB), Lisa Pegelow (IQB) und Maike Porzelt (DIPF)
• Training and consulting concerning research data management: Marcus Eisentraut (GESIS) und Jessica Trixa (GESIS)

The three project partners

DIPF   has been supporting research, policy and practice in the field of education for over 60 years through its scientific infrastructure and diverse research activities. As Germany's largest infrastructure facility for the social sciences, GESIS   provides researchers at all levels of their research projects with its expertise and services. The IQB   is a scientific institution of Germany‘s federal states and is an affiliated institute of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

The Research Data Centre (RDC) for Education   at DIPF currently offers about 2100 video files and 2500 other files (e.g. transcripts) as well as an instrument database with scale documentation, questionnaire and test archive. GESIS‘s Data Archive for the Social Sciences  , founded in 1960, offers data services on more than 5,300 studies in national and international comparative survey research. The Research Data Centre at the IQB   archives the data sets of national and international educational studies with competence measurements (including PISA, TIMSS, IGLU and IQB National Assessment Studies) and makes them available for secondary analyses.

The research data centres of the participating institutes are committed to the   criteria  of the German Data Forum (RatSWD)  .

Project advisory board

The VerbundFDB has convened an advisory board on behalf of the BMBF to critically monitor the development of the VerbundFDB.

Members of the advisory board:

• Prof. Dr. Monika Gross (Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin)
• Prof. Dr. Robert Kreitz (Chemnitz University of Technology)
• Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig (Freie Universität Berlin; DIW Berlin)
• Prof. Dr. Stefanie Lindstaedt (Graz University of Technology, Knowledge Technologies Institute)
• Prof. Dr. Oliver Lüdtke (IPN - Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education)
• Prof. Dr. Jan Marcus (Universität Hamburg; DIW Berlin)
• Prof. Dr. Nicolle Pfaff (University of Duisburg-Essen)
• Prof. Dr. Heike Solga (WZB - Social Science Research Center Berlin)