About the FDZ-DZHW

Our Motivation

• sustainable improvement of reserach data infrastructure in the field of higher education research and science studies
• establishment of a diverse data portfolio of the research field with high-quality services in data ingest and data provision
• enabling national and international use of the data through various quality-assured data accesses and documentation in English
• networking, exchange and cooperation with other research data infrastructure institutions to improve access to research data

Institutions and Cooperations

The Research Data Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (FDZ-DZHW), based at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW), was opened in June 2017. The establishment (2015 to 2017) was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). In December 2017 the FDZ-DZHW was accredited by the German Data Forum (RatSWD) and operates according to the criteria of the RatSWDs (German). Since 2019, the FDZ-DZHW is a partner of the German Network for Educational Research Data (VerbundFDB).

Links

• German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)
• German Data Forum (RatSWD)
• German Network for Educational Research Data (VerbundFDB)
• Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Services

• providing data for secondary scientific use
• search portal - elaborated metadata search
• data documentation - method reports, data-set reports
• trainings
• consulting for data users and data providers