Data Stewardship Programme: Funding by swissuniversities
We are pleased to inform you that swissuniversities has approved the submission of the University of Basel on Action Line B5.2: Actions plans on data stewardship and will support the Data Stewardship Programme of the university with additional funds until the end of 2024. Together with the funds from the University of Basel, this will allow the continuation of the Data Stewardship Programme and the implementation of a comprehensive action plan with the following key points:
1. Increasing participation in the Data Stewardship Programme and the visibility of data stewards in faculties and departments.
2. Formulation of subject-specific principles and best practices for research data management at the faculties and departments.
3. Implementation of a curriculum on research data management in doctoral training at the faculties and departments.
4. Ensuring long-term programme coordination and addressing research data management issues of university-wide relevance.
The Data Stewardship Project is located within the Open Science Team of the University Library and is led by Christina Besmer and Iris Lindenmann. Two additional staff members will supplement the coordination of the Data Stewardship Programme until the end of 2024. Markus Bossert started in June 2023 and another person will join the project team at a later date.
We will also continue our training for the data stewards of the University of Basel and are currently organising the courses for the fall semester of 2023. The training programme is on our website and will be continuously updated.