Sustainable research data management (RDM) continues to pose considerable challenges for the humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies, as well as for the traditional data-based natural and life sciences. This is particularly true for research groups and project consortia: often high methodological and disciplinary diversity, limited time resources, and project-centered funding approaches make it difficult to establish and disseminate functional, FAIR-compliant data workflows in everyday research. External consulting can provide support, but often reaches its limits when solutions are complex and not sufficiently embedded in existing working methods.

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As part of the CARDS discussion series “FDM@BUA,” René Bernard, Coordinator for Value and Open Science at the NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, will present the cluster-wide RETAIN Fellowship Program (Research Data Management Implementation in the Neurosciences). RETAIN takes a context-sensitive approach: the development of sustainable RDM structures is understood as a supported process that is initiated, designed, and jointly supported by the respective research environment itself.

The input presents the structure of the program and reports on findings from the two pilot RETAIN fellowships in preclinical and clinical research environments. The results show the conditions under which RDM becomes effective not as an additional burden, but as a functional infrastructure for high-quality, reusable research data. Please feel free to bring your own scenarios and questions from your project/research group, which we can discuss together afterwards.

Target audience

Researchers of all status groups and disciplines, research support staff (RDM managers, data stewards, RDM service centers)

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