With Come2Data, a data competence centre is to be created in Saxony that consolidates the existing, extensive support services for working on and with data and combines them into a sustainable offering for researchers from all disciplines.
Project description
Project approach
As a data competence centre (DKZ), Come2Data pursues a Saxon-regional approach to imparting practice-oriented data skills primarily to science, but also to the areas of administration and interested society and, in the long term, to the economy. Come2Data bundles existing data science training and support services as well as expertise and commitment to research data management, NFDI, high-performance computing and analysis methods for data-intensive interdisciplinary research applications such as artificial intelligence and data modelling. The diverse local, regional and national activities that exist in Saxony will be consolidated and synergised into a sustainable offering. The basis is a comprehensive training and support programme in the fields of data integration, data management, data analysis and data publication. Come2Data thus creates an open research, support, networking and learning centre across Saxon locations in order to make the consolidated training, support and knowledge offering available to researchers, teachers and learners as well as to the public via a central virtual platform.
As an open learning location, Come2Data will bundle existing courses on data skills, prepare them didactically for different target groups and make them available centrally as module series and certification programmes. The innovative aspect here is that real and complex data and teaching problems are dealt with by a Saxon data expert pool via the research locations and the resulting findings are continuously incorporated into the teaching programmes.
A sustainable support centre is also being created around the research and learning location, which will provide comprehensive level 1 support in the form of a helpdesk using a knowledge base and specific level 2 support through the mediation of experts. As an open networking centre, these services will be available to a broad target group. In addition, Come2Data creates a space in which solutions for real data and teaching problems are provided by tried-and-tested local, regional and national experts and made available in a didactic format.
Come2Data will provide the necessary technical and organisational infrastructure for this and, with the necessary personnel resources, will also coordinate the data expert pool, the courses and the knowledge base in the long term and enable the transfer of knowledge to the field of research.
Project goal
The aim is to establish a Saxon data competence centre that is closely linked to the existing activities and expertise in the context of NHR, AI and NFDI/FDM and uses the local and regional competencies of the Saxon data centres.
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provides professional and synergetic support services for researchers on data management and analysis across the entire data lifecycle,
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developed attractive courses for acquiring skills in these aspects across all career levels and established them as innovative training and further education programmes in data science, and
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The project networks actors from different domains and disciplines for collaborative and interdisciplinary data-intensive research.
Come2Data aims to create a service centre that promotes cultural change in the handling of data for a broad target group in an interdisciplinary and solution-oriented manner. In the long term, it is to be established as a networking centre for stakeholders from science, society, administration and business with data experts in order to solve data science problems across domains and disciplines.
