The fifth TEACH (Talking about Education Across Communities at Helmholtz) Community Conference took place in Berlin from September 29 to October 1. As a participant-driven community event, it summons people from the Helmholtz education community as well as external experts to facilitate high-quality teaching across the Helmholtz Association and its partner institutions.
Within the spectrum of the humanities, philosophy represents a special case in terms of its need for digital tools, infrastructures, data, and skills. This is also reflected in the fact that, to date, the discussion of research data, Open Educational Resources, and data literacy in philosophy has tended to remain marginal. For this reason, on September 4th and 5th, 2025, a collaborative workshop organized by DALIA and the “Philosophie der Digitalität” working group of the German Society for Philosophy (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie) was held at the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. The aim was, on the one hand, to bring together case studies of philosophy done digitally and, on the other hand, to address questions concerning the teaching and curricular integration of data literacy. One outcome of the workshop was that the discussion, in all its complexity, needs to be continued in order to meet the needs of researchers, teachers, and learners in philosophy with regard to digital tools and skills.
The DALIA project had a strong presence at the 2nd Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI) 2025 in Aachen. During the two poster sessions at the first half of the conference, we presented three posters regarding different aspects of the DALIA project:
On Monday, August 25th, the RWTH Aachen University Institute of Inorganic Chemistry hosted the DALIA Satellite Meeting to the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI) 2025. The event brought together an international group of experts for a full day of insightful presentations and discussions on data literacy, training platforms, and FAIR approaches in research and teaching.
On 30 June and 1 July 2025, colleagues from the University and State Library and the TU Darmstadt, the University Medical Centre Göttingen, the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, the TIB Leibnitz Institute for Science and Technology, the University Library Hannover and the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and the IT Centre of RWTH Aachen University met to summarise the results of the last six months and to plan and coordinate the next steps. The team was hosted by the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz.
Open Educational Resources (OER) to promote data literacy and Research Data Management (RDM) play a central role in the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) and beyond. Many RDM projects and networks deal with the creation, collection, and sustainable provision of such materials as well as with questions of curation and linking. The FAIR principles can be applied to OER as well as to research data. On February 5 and 6, 2025, a workshop was held at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences with representatives of the DALIA, NFDI4Memory, NFDI4Culture, Text+, KonsortSWD, HERMES, QUADRIGA, KODAQs, SODa and WiNoDa projects.
A number of changes have recently been made to our search platform on the topic of data literacy: In addition to adjustments of the layout, the number of learning and teaching materials has increased significantly to 450.The form and structure of the presentation of the metadata on the individual detail pages has been improved in terms of clarity and is adapted to the current Dalia Interchange Format (DIF).
On January 22, the DALIA team submitted a proposal for the Initialisation Phase of Base4NFDI to become a basic service in the NFDI. The aim of DALIA4NFDI is to establish a centralised platform for promoting data literacy and research data management through quality-assured, open, accessible teaching and training resources.
The “Digital Competences in Science” theme week took place in Hanover at the beginning of December 2024. The event was organized by the VolkswagenStiftung with the aim of promoting the interdisciplinary and supra-regional exchange of ideas and initiatives on digital skills in science. As part of the theme week, Dr. Yvana Glasenapp (FDM-NDS), Dr. Lioba Schreyer (fdm.nrw), Dr. Barbara Weiner (SaxFDM) and Dr. Beate Ulrike La Sala (HeFDI) organized the workshop “Data Literacy in Focus: Angebote, Qualitätssicherung und Vernetzung” from 2 to 4 December.
After two years of working on the project, the DALIA team met on December 18 and 19 in Aachen to discuss the project progress, the results of the past year, and the next steps.
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative hosted the EOSC Symposium in Berlin this year. As an initiative of the European Union, the EOSC aims to foster Europe-wide progress in the field of open and digital science. The focus is on establishing a system that enables and simplifies the search for and the access to data and services for research and innovation in Europe. Therefore, supporting researchers in storing, analyzing and reusing FAIR research data and results is the main goal.
This year, the first Base4NFDI User Conference took place on November 20 and 21 at Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin. The two-day event, which is primarily designed for members of the NFDI community, was organized by the Base4NFDI initiative. The initiative aims to develop and offer general and shared RDM (Research Data Management) resources and services for the NFDI.A key objective of the conference was to present the current base services as well as future candidates to the NFDI community to explain how they can be integrated and whom to contact for assistance.
We are pleased to announce the successful launch of the DALIA platform. The fair search platform for teaching materials on data literacy search.dalia.education is now live! This first of three planned milestones enables access to over 300 RDM open educational resources (OER).
Where do data competence projects currently stanad? This was the guiding question of the “Statusveranstaltung der Datenkompetenzprojekte” (BMBF) held on September 19–20, 2024, in Berlin. Representatives from projects across the three funding lines – the establishment of data competence centers in science (“Aufbau von Datenkompetenzzentren in der Wissenschaft”), the strengthening of data skills among early-career researchers (“Stärkung der Datenkompetenzen des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses”), and the reuse and management of research data at universities of applied sciences (“Nachnutzung und Management von Forschungsdaten an Fachhochschulen”) – were invited to attend. Also in attendance were representatives from DALIA, as the meta-project, and the NFDI (National Research Data Infrastructure) section on Education and Training (EduTrain).
Teaching and learning materials (Open Educational Resources, OER) aimed at developing data literacy and competencies in research data management (RDM) are a central focus within the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) and beyond. Most RDM projects and networks either collect or produce OER, while addressing key questions regarding sustainability, aggregation, curation, and interlinking. The FAIR principles apply here in the same way as they do to research data. In this context, representatives from the NFDI consortia NFDI4Culture, NFDI4Memory, the data competence centers QUADRIGA and HERMES, and the infrastructure project of the NFDI section "Training & Education" – DALIA – gathered at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz for a joint workshop on April 22–23, 2024.
From January 31st to February 1st, 2024, 57 interested members of the research data management community, including those from the NFDI, the data competence centers and the state initiatives, met in the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Haus in Darmstadt.
DALIA stands for Data Literacy Alliance. After the first year of the project, DALIA met again at the Technical University of Darmstadt, this time organized by the team from the University and State Library. The DALIA team discusses the results of the first year of the project and determines the next steps.
Offizielles Auftakttreffen des Projektes Knowledge-Base für “Fair data usage and supply” der Data Literacy Alliance (DALIA)
The fifth TEACH (Talking about Education Across Communities at Helmholtz) Community Conference took place in Berlin from September 29 to October 1. As a participant-driven community event, it summons people from the Helmholtz education community as well as external experts to facilitate high-quality teaching across the Helmholtz Association and its partner institutions.
Within the spectrum of the humanities, philosophy represents a special case in terms of its need for digital tools, infrastructures, data, and skills. This is also reflected in the fact that, to date, the discussion of research data, Open Educational Resources, and data literacy in philosophy has tended to remain marginal. For this reason, on September 4th and 5th, 2025, a collaborative workshop organized by DALIA and the “Philosophie der Digitalität” working group of the German Society for Philosophy (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie) was held at the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. The aim was, on the one hand, to bring together case studies of philosophy done digitally and, on the other hand, to address questions concerning the teaching and curricular integration of data literacy. One outcome of the workshop was that the discussion, in all its complexity, needs to be continued in order to meet the needs of researchers, teachers, and learners in philosophy with regard to digital tools and skills.
The DALIA project had a strong presence at the 2nd Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI) 2025 in Aachen. During the two poster sessions at the first half of the conference, we presented three posters regarding different aspects of the DALIA project:
On Monday, August 25th, the RWTH Aachen University Institute of Inorganic Chemistry hosted the DALIA Satellite Meeting to the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI) 2025. The event brought together an international group of experts for a full day of insightful presentations and discussions on data literacy, training platforms, and FAIR approaches in research and teaching.
On 30 June and 1 July 2025, colleagues from the University and State Library and the TU Darmstadt, the University Medical Centre Göttingen, the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, the TIB Leibnitz Institute for Science and Technology, the University Library Hannover and the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and the IT Centre of RWTH Aachen University met to summarise the results of the last six months and to plan and coordinate the next steps. The team was hosted by the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz.
Open Educational Resources (OER) to promote data literacy and Research Data Management (RDM) play a central role in the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) and beyond. Many RDM projects and networks deal with the creation, collection, and sustainable provision of such materials as well as with questions of curation and linking. The FAIR principles can be applied to OER as well as to research data. On February 5 and 6, 2025, a workshop was held at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences with representatives of the DALIA, NFDI4Memory, NFDI4Culture, Text+, KonsortSWD, HERMES, QUADRIGA, KODAQs, SODa and WiNoDa projects.
A number of changes have recently been made to our search platform on the topic of data literacy: In addition to adjustments of the layout, the number of learning and teaching materials has increased significantly to 450.The form and structure of the presentation of the metadata on the individual detail pages has been improved in terms of clarity and is adapted to the current Dalia Interchange Format (DIF).
On January 22, the DALIA team submitted a proposal for the Initialisation Phase of Base4NFDI to become a basic service in the NFDI. The aim of DALIA4NFDI is to establish a centralised platform for promoting data literacy and research data management through quality-assured, open, accessible teaching and training resources.
The “Digital Competences in Science” theme week took place in Hanover at the beginning of December 2024. The event was organized by the VolkswagenStiftung with the aim of promoting the interdisciplinary and supra-regional exchange of ideas and initiatives on digital skills in science. As part of the theme week, Dr. Yvana Glasenapp (FDM-NDS), Dr. Lioba Schreyer (fdm.nrw), Dr. Barbara Weiner (SaxFDM) and Dr. Beate Ulrike La Sala (HeFDI) organized the workshop “Data Literacy in Focus: Angebote, Qualitätssicherung und Vernetzung” from 2 to 4 December.
After two years of working on the project, the DALIA team met on December 18 and 19 in Aachen to discuss the project progress, the results of the past year, and the next steps.
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative hosted the EOSC Symposium in Berlin this year. As an initiative of the European Union, the EOSC aims to foster Europe-wide progress in the field of open and digital science. The focus is on establishing a system that enables and simplifies the search for and the access to data and services for research and innovation in Europe. Therefore, supporting researchers in storing, analyzing and reusing FAIR research data and results is the main goal.
This year, the first Base4NFDI User Conference took place on November 20 and 21 at Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin. The two-day event, which is primarily designed for members of the NFDI community, was organized by the Base4NFDI initiative. The initiative aims to develop and offer general and shared RDM (Research Data Management) resources and services for the NFDI.A key objective of the conference was to present the current base services as well as future candidates to the NFDI community to explain how they can be integrated and whom to contact for assistance.
We are pleased to announce the successful launch of the DALIA platform. The fair search platform for teaching materials on data literacy search.dalia.education is now live! This first of three planned milestones enables access to over 300 RDM open educational resources (OER).
Where do data competence projects currently stanad? This was the guiding question of the “Statusveranstaltung der Datenkompetenzprojekte” (BMBF) held on September 19–20, 2024, in Berlin. Representatives from projects across the three funding lines – the establishment of data competence centers in science (“Aufbau von Datenkompetenzzentren in der Wissenschaft”), the strengthening of data skills among early-career researchers (“Stärkung der Datenkompetenzen des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses”), and the reuse and management of research data at universities of applied sciences (“Nachnutzung und Management von Forschungsdaten an Fachhochschulen”) – were invited to attend. Also in attendance were representatives from DALIA, as the meta-project, and the NFDI (National Research Data Infrastructure) section on Education and Training (EduTrain).
Teaching and learning materials (Open Educational Resources, OER) aimed at developing data literacy and competencies in research data management (RDM) are a central focus within the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) and beyond. Most RDM projects and networks either collect or produce OER, while addressing key questions regarding sustainability, aggregation, curation, and interlinking. The FAIR principles apply here in the same way as they do to research data. In this context, representatives from the NFDI consortia NFDI4Culture, NFDI4Memory, the data competence centers QUADRIGA and HERMES, and the infrastructure project of the NFDI section "Training & Education" – DALIA – gathered at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz for a joint workshop on April 22–23, 2024.
From January 31st to February 1st, 2024, 57 interested members of the research data management community, including those from the NFDI, the data competence centers and the state initiatives, met in the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Haus in Darmstadt.
DALIA stands for Data Literacy Alliance. After the first year of the project, DALIA met again at the Technical University of Darmstadt, this time organized by the team from the University and State Library. The DALIA team discusses the results of the first year of the project and determines the next steps.
Offizielles Auftakttreffen des Projektes Knowledge-Base für “Fair data usage and supply” der Data Literacy Alliance (DALIA)