Structure and Network
KonsortSWD is part of the NFDI. In the NFDI, valuable data from science and research are systematically accessed, networked and made usable in a sustainable and qualitative manner for the entire German science system.
About KonsortSWD
KonsortSWD is the Consortium for the Social, educational, Behavioural, and Economic sciences in the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). Funded since October 2020, KonsortSWD’s goal is to facilitate and improve work with data from and for research. To this end, we are developing a range of services that address the needs of researchers and research data centres (RDC). KonsortSWD can build on two decades of experience of the RDC, which offer researchers access to sensitive – i.e. access-restricted – data in particular. The cooperation between the RDCs is coordinated by the Committee for Data Access (FDI Committee).
The connection to the different disciplines and research communities is provided by the German Data Forum (RatSWD), which is part of the consortium. KonsortSWD is part of a wide network, including 41 research data centres (as of December 2023).
KonsortSWD is divided into five task areas: Community Participation (mainly the responsibility of the RatSWD office), Data Access (including the FDI Committee), Data Production, Technical Solutions and the Secretariat. In the Task Areas, various services for researchers and research data centres are developed and offered within the framework of individual sub-projects – called Measures. Find more information on the services of KonsortSWD and RatSWD.
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Other institutions involved in KonsortSWD
Centre for Qualitative Data in the Field of Sociology of Labour and Industry (FDZ eLabour)
Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA)
Federal Institute for Vocational Edcuation and Training (BIBB)
The Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA)
German Centre for Integration and Migration Research
German Centre of Gerontology (DZA)
German Federal Statistical Office
Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen
The Institute for Educational Quality Improvement (IQB)
Institute for Employment Research – The Research Institute of the Federal Employment Agency (IAB)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy