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“Week of Research Competence (WoFoKo)” at University Bielefeld

Scientific Data Services — Sat, 4 Oct 2025 00:02:47 +0200

We are pleased to announce that the Week of Research Competence (Woche der Forschungskompetenzen WoFoKo) will take place again this year, for the third time.

Organized by the Kompetenzzentrum Forschungsdaten, the Servicezentrum Medical Data Science and the Scientific Data Services (SDS), the WoFoKo focuses on strengthening essential skills for (empirical) research for early-career researchers from all disciplines at Bielefeld University.

The WoFoKo will take place online via Zoom from the 6th to 10th of October 2025, between 09:15-15:00.

Key Topics are:

- Project Management & Conflict Management

- Data Security & Information Security

- Rights of Data

- Ethics of Data Collection

- Research Data Management

- Academic Writing & Publishing

- Open Educational Resources

- Data Literacy & Open Data

- Research Funding

- Healthy Research Practices

- Artificial Intelligence in Research

Open Science in summer term 2025

Scientific Data Services — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:12:41 +0100

The seminar "Open Minds for Open Science - An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Open Science" will take place again in the coming summer term 2025. Open Science is becoming more and more important as an interdisciplinary topic, even at the undergraduate level. More and more, Open Science is also in the focus of politics and is politically desired. The seminar is addressed to all students who are interested in Open Science and aspire to a scientific career.

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Second edition "Woche der Forschungskompetenzen"

Scientific Data Services — Mon, 5 Feb 2024 11:33:22 +0100

In March, Bielefeld University will host the second "Woche der Forschungskompetenzen". Organised by the Competence Centre for Research Data (a cooperation between Bielefeld University Library and BITS) and the Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG), the week from 4 to 8 March is dedicated to skills that are currently given less attention in university curricula. Topics include rights to texts and data, privacy and ethics, and scholarly publishing. The week's lectures, most of which will be held in German, are aimed at all empirical researchers at Bielefeld University, but especially at "young academics".

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Open Science in summer term 2024

Scientific Data Services — Thu, 1 Feb 2024 11:41:45 +0100

The seminar "Open Minds for Open Science - An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Open Science" will take place again in the coming summer term 2024. Open Science is becoming more and more important as an interdisciplinary topic, even at the undergraduate level. More and more, Open Science is also in the focus of politics and is politically desired. The seminar is addressed to all students who are interested in Open Science and aspire to a scientific career.

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SDS supports the Euro PhD School Data Science Meets OCombinatorial ptimisation

Scientific Data Services — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 11:00:00 +0200

SDS supports the Euro PhD School Data Science Meets Combinatorial Optimisation With the support of the Scientific Data Service, the Euro PhD School Data Science Meets Combinatorial Optimisation will take place at the University Bielefeld from the 4th to the 8th of September. The Euro PhD School is concerned with algorithms for combinatorial optimisation, which in various ways have aspects of data science, as well as combinatorial optimisation problems. Each day will focus on a current topic, which will be explored in depth by lecturers, supported by post-docs, through theory, lectures and exercises. The programme oft the PhD School also includes an invited lecture by Alexander von Humboldt Professor Yachou Jin. Applications and registrations are possible until 31 July via the PhD School website.

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