Datamanagement Kick-Off in Munich

On May 19–20, the TRR 387 data steward team – Clara Hernández Cañás (Würzburg), Nikita Verheyden (Frankfurt), and Sonja Thielen (Munich) – met in Munich for their official kick-off. With Clara joining the TRR in April 2025, the team is now complete. The two-day meeting focused on team building, defining roles, and planning data management services for the UbiQancer consortium.

We started the meeting with a session on research data management essentials, covering DFG requirements, data storage, sharing practices, and documentation. Florian Bassermann joined us briefly to share insights on data management needs and to welcome Clara, who had not yet been part of the TRR during the Inauguration Meeting in November 2024. In the afternoon, we focused on team organisation, defining roles and responsibilities with support from Constanze Küchler.

On the second day, we turned to strategic planning and infrastructure development to enable data sharing and good data management practices across the consortium. We met with the team from Research Data Services at TUM University Library to discuss the implementation of a secure data-sharing platform to support efficient and compliant data exchange across the consortium.

We look forward to presenting our planned services at the Annual Meeting in June in Frankfurt!