
Our team of professionals with backgrounds in various academic disciplines offers trainings reagarding digital research with an emphasis on research data management and research software engineering. We offer courses that target researchers at every stage of their academic career.
All zedif courses are also open for interested students, especially for those working on a scientific thesis (Bachelor, Master, Staatsexamen, etc). In addition to that, the Project Data Literacy Jena (DaLiJe) offers further courses that are specifically designed for students at all stages of their study programmes (including at very early stages).
Our Course Spectrum
We have summarised a brief overview of the topics that we currently offer as part of our courses here. If a topic that interests you does not appear here, please contact us to discuss the possibilities for a corresponding course.
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Research Data Management
- Research Data Management (RDM)
Introduction of handling of research data - Data Management Plans
Planning and monitoring of research data management - RDM in funding applications
Requirements of funding bodies for research data management - Data Security
Hints and tools regarding the protection of research data - Legal Aspects of RDM
Copyright and Licensing of research data
- Research Data Management (RDM)
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Digital Tools
- Docker
Container virtualisation - Gephi
Tool for network analysis - Git/Gitlab
Version control and project management - High-performance computing (HPC)
Using the University's HPC Cluster - LaTeX
Text edition for scientific publications - OpenRefine
Tool for cleaning and quality improvementof tabular data - Spreadsheets
Organizing and processing tabular data - Unix Shell
Operating the computer with typed commands
- Docker
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Programming
- Julia
Programming language for scientific computing - Matplotlib
Library for data visualisation in Python - NumPy
Library for scientific computing in Python - Python
Widely-used programming language for analysis and visualisation of data - R
Programming language with special focus on statistics and data visualisation - SQL (Structured Query Language)
Language for the creation of database queries
- Julia