Love Data Week 2026
- Research Data Management
TU Dortmund University's Research Data Service provides information and advice on handling research data: From creation to publication. The team supports you in handling research data for your scientific project, shows you options for your research data management and is your point of contact for questions.
This year, the Research Data Service is once again participating in the international "Love Data Week" together with the other RDM service centers of the UA Ruhr. Love Data Week 2026 will take place from February 9 - 13 under this year's motto "Where's the data?". Numerous online and face-to-face events will be offered:
Monday, 09.02.26,
- 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. (online): Project management with Gitlab(registration)
- 12.30 to 1 p.m. (online): The FDM curriculum of the UA-Ruhr - UA-Ruhr wide workshops on FDM (registration)
- 1 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. (online): Data organization - a question of structure (registration)
Tuesday, 10.02.26,
- 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. (on site in Essen): Open Science Escape Room(registration)
- 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. (online): TUDOnotes - TU Dortmund University's electronic notebook (registration)
- 1 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. (online): Metadata - The first key to data documentation (registration)
- 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. (online): FAIRytale - A story about the fabulously simple handling of research data (registration)
Wednesday, 11.02.26,
- 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. (online): RDMO Consent Generator - Simple and efficient consent forms(registration)
- 1 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. (online): Data publication - Expanding your own research output(registration)
Thursday, 12.02.26,
- 12.30 p.m. to 1 p.m. (online): Long-term availability at TUDO - How can data remain available in the long term?(registration)
- 1 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. (online): Archiving - Keeping an eye on alumni data (registration)
Friday, 13.02.26,
- 12.30 p.m. to 1 p.m. (online): TUDOdata: The TU data repository - How can I store my data in a findable and accessible way?(registration)
- all International events
- all events in German-speaking countries can be found at forschungsdaten.info.
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