A modular and community-driven FAIR teaching and training handbook for higher education institutions

The FAIR principles have had a transformative effect on research data management. Based on this, there is a growing need to increase awareness, understanding and adoption of this topic in higher education at all levels and to provide guidance on how to teach it in bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral...

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Main Authors: Claudia Engelhardt, Aoife Coffey, Yuri Demchenko, Federica Garbuglia, Mijke Jetten, Martijn Kersloot, Valerie McCutcheon, Stephan Nylinder, Britta Petersen, Birgit Schmidt, Hugh Shanahan, Armin Straube, Shanmugasundaram Venkataraman, Biru Zhou
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Aoife Coffey
Yuri Demchenko
Federica Garbuglia
Mijke Jetten
Martijn Kersloot
Valerie McCutcheon
Stephan Nylinder
Britta Petersen
Birgit Schmidt
Hugh Shanahan
Armin Straube
Shanmugasundaram Venkataraman
Biru Zhou
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Armin Straube
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description The FAIR principles have had a transformative effect on research data management. Based on this, there is a growing need to increase awareness, understanding and adoption of this topic in higher education at all levels and to provide guidance on how to teach it in bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programmes. This article discusses a collaborative, co-creative approach to construct a body of knowledge and a set of tools addressing this gap, that have been summarised in a teaching and training handbook. We outline how the handbook was written using a large community of volunteers working together remotely. We then discuss the overall content of the handbook, including lesson plans, guidance on how to develop appropriate lessons, a detailed overview of FAIR-related competencies and learning outcomes, and guidelines on how to implement FAIR within an institution. Finally, we discuss the uptake of the handbook, and examples of how the handbook has or could be used in a variety of different training settings.  
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spelling doaj-art-6b3e645b1d464ebbbc7a67d718e707202025-08-20T03:26:51Zengopenjournals.nlLiber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries2213-056X2025-06-0135110.53377/lq.16675A modular and community-driven FAIR teaching and training handbook for higher education institutionsClaudia Engelhardt0Aoife Coffey1Yuri Demchenko2Federica Garbuglia3Mijke Jetten4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9114-2896Martijn Kersloot5Valerie McCutcheon6https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0705-4832Stephan Nylinder7Britta Petersen8https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0355-2594Birgit Schmidt9Hugh Shanahan10Armin Straube11Shanmugasundaram Venkataraman12Biru Zhou13Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Sciences (CIDS), TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, GermanyUCC Library, University College Cork, Cork, Republic of IrelandFaculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsEuropean University Association, Brussels, BelgiumELIXIR-NL, Health-RI, Utrecht, NetherlandsELIXIR-NL, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, NetherlandsInformation Services, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United KingdomELIXIR-SE, National Bioinformatics Infrastructure (NBIS), Uppsala, SwedenUniversity Computing Centre, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, GermanyGöttingen State and University Library, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, GermanyRoyal Holloway, University of London, Egham, United KingdomGlucksman Library, University of Limerick, Limerick, Republic of IrelandTraining, OpenAIRE, Edinburgh, United KingdomOffice of the Vice-Principal (Research and Innovation), McGill University, Montreal, Canada The FAIR principles have had a transformative effect on research data management. Based on this, there is a growing need to increase awareness, understanding and adoption of this topic in higher education at all levels and to provide guidance on how to teach it in bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programmes. This article discusses a collaborative, co-creative approach to construct a body of knowledge and a set of tools addressing this gap, that have been summarised in a teaching and training handbook. We outline how the handbook was written using a large community of volunteers working together remotely. We then discuss the overall content of the handbook, including lesson plans, guidance on how to develop appropriate lessons, a detailed overview of FAIR-related competencies and learning outcomes, and guidelines on how to implement FAIR within an institution. Finally, we discuss the uptake of the handbook, and examples of how the handbook has or could be used in a variety of different training settings.   https://liberquarterly.eu/article/view/16675FAIR principlesresearch data managementteachingtraininghigher education institutions
spellingShingle Claudia Engelhardt
Aoife Coffey
Yuri Demchenko
Federica Garbuglia
Mijke Jetten
Martijn Kersloot
Valerie McCutcheon
Stephan Nylinder
Britta Petersen
Birgit Schmidt
Hugh Shanahan
Armin Straube
Shanmugasundaram Venkataraman
Biru Zhou
A modular and community-driven FAIR teaching and training handbook for higher education institutions
Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries
FAIR principles
research data management
teaching
training
higher education institutions
title A modular and community-driven FAIR teaching and training handbook for higher education institutions
title_full A modular and community-driven FAIR teaching and training handbook for higher education institutions
title_fullStr A modular and community-driven FAIR teaching and training handbook for higher education institutions
title_full_unstemmed A modular and community-driven FAIR teaching and training handbook for higher education institutions
title_short A modular and community-driven FAIR teaching and training handbook for higher education institutions
title_sort modular and community driven fair teaching and training handbook for higher education institutions
topic FAIR principles
research data management
teaching
training
higher education institutions
url https://liberquarterly.eu/article/view/16675
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