We are delighted that the joint project application submitted by TU Dresden, TU Chemnitz, SLUB and Leipzig University to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for the establishment of a data competence centre has been successful. With the current funding for data competence centres, the BMBF is strengthening the expertise of the German science and research landscape with regard to working with research data.
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.
We would like to thank the partners who have already supported this project during the application process and look forward to shaping the future of data literacy in Saxony together. We are convinced that Come2Data will have a lasting and positive impact on the development of data literacy in Saxony.
In particular, we would like to thank the City of Leipzig for being available as a pilot partner for projects. In addition to the University Computer Centre, Department of Research and Development, ScaDS.AI and the Chair of Medical Data Science are also actively involved within Leipzig University.
For further information about the Come2Data project and its progress during the project period, please do not hesitate to contact us.
About the project funding
This project is funded by the State Ministry of Science and the Arts SMWK via the Research Project Funding Guideline (TG 70)