Short Introduction: Rhine-Ruhr Center for Scientific Data Literacy

Researchers in all disciplines are confronted with increasing volume of data. The newly founded Rhine-Ruhr Center for Scientific Data Literacy (DKZ.2R) has set itself the goal of supporting researchers from a wide range of research disciplines with regard to increasingly complex data analysis, data management and high-performance computing. DKZ.2R is one of eleven data literacy centers in Germany funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in 2023 and will be funded for three years with a total funding volume of around three million euros. DKZ.2R is made up of a total of nine strong universities and research centers in the Rhine-Ruhr region. These include Forschungszentrum Jülich, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen University of Applied Sciences, the University of Cologne, the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, the Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems, Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Duisburg-Essen. The project is lead by Prof. Dr. Stefan Sandfeld from Forschungszentrum Jülich and Prof. Dr. Matthias Müller from RWTH Aachen University.