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About the VerbundFDB

In the VerbundFDB (German Network of Educational Research Data), relevant national institutions from the field of educational research collaborate to provide an attractive and high-quality range of research data for empirical educational research. The Network is committed to the principles of Open Science. Researchers can archive self-generated data and find research data for subsequent use at the VerbundFDB.

As a central point of contact for research data in educational research, the VerbundFDB offers the following services:

  • Visibility and discoverability of research data: Research data from various data centres and repositories can be searched via the    data search function;
  • Publication and preservation of quality-assured research data: Data sets are archived and made accessible at a data centre that is appropriate in terms of content and methodology, while maintaining ethical, data protection, copyright, and documentary standards (   data sharing);
  • Training and advice on data management: topics of research data management are prepared and discussed in on-site training courses, digital training and information offers, and handouts (   managing data). Project-specific questions can be addressed in more depth in individual consultations.

Learn more about the goals, structure and history of VerbundFDB below:

 Mission and vision

 Structure and organization

 History

Partners

 APAEK, Goethe University Frankfurt

 GESIS

 DIE

 RDC at BIBB

 FDZ-DJI

 RDC for Education at DIPF

 FDZ-DZHW

 RDC at IQB

 FDZ-LIfBi

 Research Data Center PIAAC at GESIS

 Research Data Center at ZPID

 Qualiservice

 FD-LEX at Mercator Institute

The partners exchange information monthly and collaborate in working groups on selected topics. If you are interested in becoming a member, please contact us!

 Activities

Mission and vision

The VerbundFDB contributes to exploiting the potential of research data generated in educational research exhaustively and to establishing a culture of data sharing. Educational researchers of all disciplines can access quality-assured research data in a user-friendly way and independent of location. While safeguarding ethical, data protection and copyright interests, this enables research approaches across disciplinary and national boundaries. New research potential is created through high-quality research data and new possibilities for linking research data from different sources emerge.

The White Paper  Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice and the  FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship are fundamental to the research data centres associated in the VerbundFDB.

In addition, VerbundFDB works in close partnership with  KonsortSWD and sees itself as part of the  National Research Data Infrastructure (nfdi).

Cooperation

We collaborate closely with

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Most of the RDC are accredited in

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Structure and organization

The coordination office of the VerbundFDB is a standing unit at the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education and is thus financed by the federal and state governments. The basic services of the VerbundFDB financed in this way are operated by the partner institutions GESIS, IQB and DIPF. In addition to running the coordination office, these include the online portal forschungsdaten-bildung.de, a free data archiving service, and a free consulting and training service. The data centres in the VerbundFDB regularly exchange information and work together on selected topics in working groups ( Activities).

The  scientific advisory board as well as the  user advisory board at DIPF advise the VerbundFDB in strategic questions of the work and development program. In addition, researchers are involved through various committees in order to ensure that the services offered are always closely oriented to the needs of educational researchers.

Contact persons

Management:
 Doris Bambey (DIPF)
 Reiner Mauer (GESIS)
 Malte Jansen (IQB)

Coordination VerbundFDB:
 Sonja Bayer
 Alexia Meyermann

Public Relations:
 Ramona Gietzen

Coordination of technical development, documentation:
 Dirk Weisbrod

History

The VerbundFDB was established and expanded in three project phases funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

1st funding phase: 2013 - 2016

In 2013, the three institutes  DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education,  GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and the  Institute for Educational Quality Improvement (IQB) joined forces to archive and make accessible data from the  Framework Programme for Empirical Educational Research of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

 Final report 1st funding phase (only available in German)

2nd funding phase: 2016 - 2019

Starting in 2016, the services were generally expanded to include educational research data sets and cooperative structures were established with other institutions and research data centres to make educational research data accessible. In addition, training and consulting services were expanded significantly.

 Final report 2nd funding phase

 Overview of work packages 2016-2019

Top-up phase: 2019 - 2021

In the 3rd funding phase beginning in 2019, the goal was implemented to permanently establish the structures that had been built. The VerbundFDB services and the available data sets were further expanded and widely publicised.

 Final report top-up phase (not yet available).

 Overview of work packages 2019-2021 (only available in German)

Since 2022, the VerbundFDB has been a permanently funded infrastructure for educational research.

Former Project Advisory Board

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)

Last update: 21/07/23

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