BMBF Framework Programme for the Promotion of Empirical Educational Research
On behalf of the Federal Ministry for of Education and Research (BMBF) the Network for research data in education (link to http://www.forschungsdaten-bildung.de/home?la=de) archives the research data generated in the BMBF Framework Programme for the Promotion of Empirical Educational Research. The Network for research data in education is a joint project of GESIS (Link to http://www.gesis.org/en/home/), DIPF (Link to http://www.dipf.de/en) and IQB.
The Network for research data in education aims at storing research data permanently and enabling their re-use in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations. It provides information on and access to studies, tools, and data. The Network for research data in education also consults and trains researchers with respect to the management and the methodologically adequate handling of research data.
The Network for research data in education provides researchers in empirical educational research with:
• access to data and tools for their own empirical research
• information about data management (documentation, data protection, etc.) and
• an opportunity for the safe and sustainable storage of their own research data and research instruments
The Network for research data in education will set up the technological, organizational and legal infrastructure required for this purpose.
The Research Data Centre at the IQB, as one of the project partners forming the Network for research data in education, particularly aims to archive, document and make available for re-use those studies from the BMBF Framework Programme dealing with educational achievement data.