funded by
01.10.2019 - 31.12.2021
01.10.2016 - 30.09.2019
First funding phase
01.10.2013 - 30-09-2016
Final report of the first funding phase (only available in German)
RatSWD Working Paper (only available in German) on the VerbundFDB (October 2017)
Legal counsellors: Solicitors Goebel and Scheller
Work programme (only available in German)
Collecting and sharing research data and information is one of the most urgent strategic tasks for an efficient and quality-assured research (e.g. Wissenschaftsrat 2012 , accessed on 21.08.2014).
Against this background, the three institutes Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) commissioned DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education , GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and Institute for Educational Quality Improvement (IQB) have joined forces to provide offers and services for empirical educational research in the areas of data archiving and data provision as well as advice on research data management. The VerbundFDB collaborates in an expanded network of research data centres to secure and make available data related to educational research.
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 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.
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) .
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:
funded by
01.10.2019 - 31.12.2021
01.10.2016 - 30.09.2019
First funding phase
01.10.2013 - 30-09-2016
Final report of the first funding phase (only available in German)
RatSWD Working Paper (only available in German) on the VerbundFDB (October 2017)
Legal counsellors: Solicitors Goebel and Scheller
Work programme (only available in German)