Teaching Research Data Management for Students

Sound skills in managing research data are a fundamental requirementin any discipline of research. Therefore, research data management shouldbe included in academic education of students as early as possible. Wehave been teaching an interdisciplinary full semesteru0027s course on researchdata management for six years. We report how we established the course.We describe our competency-based approach to teaching research datamanagement and the curriculum of topics that we consider essential. Weevaluate our approach by a survey done among the participants of thecourse and summarize the lessons we learned in teaching the course.