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 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.
Authors
- Stephan Nylinder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5199-7128)
- Mijke Jetten (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9114-2896)
- Valerie McCutcheon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0705-4832)
- Yuri Demchenko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7474-9506)
- Hugh Shanahan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1374-6015)
- Birgit Schmidt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8036-5859)
- Armin Straube (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5229-1968)
- Shanmugasundaram Venkataraman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3200-2698)
- Biru Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6914-1432)
- Martijn G. Kersloot (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3357-3027)
- Britta Petersen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0355-2594)
- Claudia Engelhardt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3391-7638)
- Federica Garbuglia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9162-4446)
- Aoife Coffey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5008-3711)
Institutions
- Swedish Veterinary Agency (SE)
- Royal Holloway University of London (GB)
- University of Limerick (IE)
- University College Cork (IE)
- The Open Group (GB)
- Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (DE)
- European University Association (BE)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (NL)
- Netherlands Leprosy Relief (NL)
- McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre (CA)
- Elixir Medical (United States) (US)
- Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (DE)
- McGill University (CA)
- University of Göttingen (DE)
- Technische Universität Dresden (DE)
- University of Glasgow (GB)
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- LIBER Quarterly The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries
- Published
- 2025-06-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.53377/lq.16675
- Primary Topic
- Research Data Management Practices
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00