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.

This year’s program offered talks, workshops, barcamp sessions and keynote presentations. In between were a lot of opportunities for individual exchange and networking. In addition to exciting presentations around teaching with AI and in the digital age, there were two half-day workshops about “Interactions, Tools, and Methods in Online Teaching” and “Effective Use of Large Language Models (e.g. ChatGPT) in Teaching” which were designed to support the conference attendees in their teaching in the future.

During the conference, Jochen Ortmeyer got the chance to share NFDI4Chem’s approach towards education in data literacy. In the presentation “Data Literacy: How to educate and train the next generation in chemistry and beyond”, he provided an insight into the efforts of NFDI4Chem to bring research data topics in chemistry curricular. Furthermore, the DALIA portal was introduced to the audience and how it can be used in chemistry and beyond to find educational resources in data literacy. During the discussion after the talk, the attendees broadly agreed that data literacy education should start from the very beginning and is not limited to chemistry.