Stella Thoben, Franziska Weng, Thilo Paul-Stueve Kiel University Service Centre Research, IT and strategic Innovation, Computing Centre and University Library https://www.synfo.uni-kiel.de Synergy Creation on the Operational Level of Research Data Management Procedures Work flows for a cross-institutional research data management Model cooperation agreements Legal basis for the implementation of procedures infrastructurally Policy drafts Binding regulations for cross-institutional research projects In the first work package of the project, a survey on research data management practice of the researchers of universities and other institutions in Schleswig- Holstein was conducted. First results show demand for storage solutions, legal and technical advice by over 50% of the respondents, while most respondents publish research data and software code without a license specification. Project SynFo Organisational  Workflows  Involved parties  Responsibilities Legal  Authorship  Right of use  Data protection  Licenses Technical Data- and metadata formats Protocols Access Different Scientific Cultures ■Disciplines ■Institutions Research data management takes place under complex organisational framework conditions, especially in research associations, such as CRCs, forms of Excellence Initiative, BMBF or EU projects. Not only can researchers from one institution be involved in several alliances and thus be subject to different data management plans for identical data sets. A majority of cooperating institutions with their own institutional or superior guidelines and strategies for research data management are often involved in a research network. Each type of research institution is characterized by its institutional and scientific culture; it has a specific mandate due to the sponsoring and is usually associated with other research institutions in an umbrella organisation. This can lead to different or even contradictory data management policies and plans within one research alliance. The combination of an increasing proportion of transdisciplinary research with very different types of research data and the often formulated requirements for structured data management thus creates a difficult situation for researchers and providers of data management infrastructures. The project is therefore to develop a researcher-centric solution for a pragmatic research data management. Based on an evaluation of concrete organizational and technical implementations in various institutions involved in a research network, the commonalities are revealed in structural and legal context. The aim is to define organisational and technical interfaces and, where possible, to harmonise data management for researchers. The research location Kiel is predestined for this project: due to the diversity of research subjects at the Kiel University (Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel; CAU) as the only full University of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, there are partly overlapping research data management cooperations with non-university institutions such as Helmholtz institutes (notably GEOMAR and Geesthacht), Leibniz institutes and service facilities (such as IfW, IPN, ZBW, Research Centre Borstel) or the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön; all institutions maintain close cooperation with the CAU and with each other. Example Workflow Possible results for a cross- institutional perspective can be harnessed as a basis for cross-cutting, synergetic services in the form of procedures, model cooperation agreements, and corresponding policy drafts for collaborative projects. Kiel Marine Science Kiel Life Science Societal, Environmental and Cultural Change Kiel Nano Surface & Interface Science SFB 1182 J o h a n n a M e s t o r f A c a d e m y Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie Research Landscape at Kiel – CAU Perspective Project SynFo is sponsored by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The results of th