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Project: BerlinUP

Project titel: Distributed Network for Publishing Services

Project duration: 06/20 – 12/23

Participating institutions: Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Principal investigators:

  • Dr. Andreas Brandtner, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Martin Le, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Jürgen Christof, Technische Universität Berlin
  • Ursula Flitner, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Project description:

The aim of the "Distributed Network for Publishing Services" project was the cooperative development of consulting and services for academic publishing and the expansion of networked open access publication infrastructures based on distributed areas of expertise. The most important result of this project is the establishment of a joint open access publishing house, Berlin Universities Publishing, in which the publication services of the BUA institutions are offered jointly.

Berlin Universities Publishing (BerlinUP) is an Open Access publisher with a non-commercial, academic infrastructure and a general, publisher-independent publication consultancy service.

Project: BUA-FDM

Project titel: Concept Development for Collaborative Research Data Management Services

Project duration: 03/21 – 06/23

Participating institutions: Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Principal investigators:

  • Sibylle Söring, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Kerstin Helbig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Dr. Britta Steinke, Technische Universität Berlin
  • Dr. Evgeny Bobrov, Berlin Institute of Health, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Project description:

In the course of the digital transformation of research, sustainable research data management (RDM) has become significantly more relevant. This encompasses the entire research data lifecycle, from the planning of a research project to data collection, processing, analysis and documentation of the data through to its long-term storage, archiving and publication in order to make it usable for follow-up projects and research.

Central services and tools are essential to provide researchers with the best possible support in RDM. In addition to institutional RDM services, it is also important to identify potential for joint services in the regional network in order to pool resources and generate added value for the respective research location. The project aimed at jointly establishing and strengthening sustainable RDM structures and developing concepts for the BUA-wide promotion, sustainable establishment and support of services in the field of RDM. Milestones included a maturity analysis of RDM, a survey of current RDM practices and the needs of researchers at the four institutions and the derivation of recommendations for the needs-oriented development and expansion of cross-institutional services. The specific RDM needs of Clusters of Excellence, Collaborative Research Centers and other collaborative projects form a further focus of the concepts that will be incorporated into the follow-up project CARDS – Collaboratively Advancing Research Data Support.

Project: Lab Know-How as Shared Resource

Project duration: 02/21 – 12/24

Participating institutions: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Principal investigators:

  • Prof. Dr. Fabian Klostermann, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Pia Knoeferle, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Project description:

The Berlin University Alliance partners are home to numerous individual laboratories with innovative research equipment. In the humanities, social sciences and neurosciences, these are often used for data acquisition on topics of information and language processing, with a focus on e.g., language learning, usability, speech therapy, neural bases of linguistic functions and their change under pathophysiological conditions. The applicants are members of the Charité and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The goal is to make the individual laboratories of the Berlin University Alliance more accessible to students as shared resource (junior) researchers. To this end, the following actions were taken:

  • the individual laboratories and the existing equipment was catalogued in a database, and the management of laboratories supported as a shared resource; protocols for laboratory access, use, and data protection are published and shared with a wider user audience
  • materials were created in order to effectively transfer and exchange the know-how of researchers already established in these fields in the use of methods and devices as well as in data analysis and interpretation; to this end, training units, courses, workshops and e-learning units on topics such as experimental designs, device use, evaluation standards, e.g., for eye-movement or EEG studies, statistical training and source localization in the brain were offered.

Project: A Digital Research Space for the BUA

Project duration: 01/21 – 12/24

Participating institutions: Technische Universität Berlin

Principal investigators

  • Prof. Dr. Sonja Schimmler, Technische Universität Berlin

Project description:

The Berlin University Alliance generates immense scientific output in the form of publications, research data and other digital resources. So far, these diverse digital resources have been made available in the systems of the respective institutions and thus are distributed across several silos.

The research project „A Digital Research Space for the BUA“ aims to develop an open source platform for searching and exploring these digital resources. Using selected case studies, the use of the platform and in particular the analysis of the available digital resources is demonstrated. Within the framework of co-creation workshops, different stakeholders are involved, who jointly reflect on requirements and evaluate prototypes.

The Freie Universität Berlin and the Technische Universität Berlin are cooperating on the project. The Technische Universität Berlin is responsible for the prototypical implementation of the platform and the implementation of the case studies. Accompanying this, the Human-Centered Computing (HCC) research group at Freie Universität Berlin is investigating the role of digital research environments in research processes and is conducting the co-creation workshops.

The prototype of the platform can be found at the following link: Berlin Open Science Portal.

Project: VIVO

Project titel: VIVO: track, search, and visualize scientific activities

Project duration: 04/21 – 12/23

Participating institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Principal investigator:

  • Dr. Fadwa Alshawaf, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Project description:

The VIVO project aims at building a platform for research, collecting and presenting researchers and their research and activities within the BUA. A common catalog that integrates the existing offerings of the universities and the information available on the Web would enable transparency and make networking across disciplines easier. In addition, such a virtual contact and information point can improve the science communication and the transfer of knowledge. The Vivo platform also provides an ontology for representing science by integrating existing research information systems.

VIVO is intended to serve as a foundation for the development of the research information platforms.

Project: COVID-19 and Transport (Berlin Mobility Data Hub)

Project duration: 11/20 – 12/22

Participating institutions: Freie Universität Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin

Principal investigator:

  • Prof. Dr. Natalia Kliewer, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Hans-Liudger Dienel, Technische Universität Berlin

Projektbeschreibung

The aim of the "COVID-19 and Transport (Berlin Mobility Data Hub)" project was to create a digital data and knowledge platform for the systematic consolidation of Berlin-related passenger and freight transport data, with a particular focus on gaining insights into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Berlin's transport system.
Based on an extensive identification and systematic compilation of relevant data sources, researchers from the BUA partners have made transport and mobility-related data sets available.

Further information on the Berlin Mobility Data Hub can be found here.

Project: LinkLab

Project titel: Establishment of a Central Computational Link Lab for Proteomics and Metabolomics

Project duration: 05/20 – 12/21

Participating institutions: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Principal investigators:

  • Prof. Dr. Dietrich Volmer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Juri Rappsilber, Technische Universität Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Markus Ralse, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Project description:

A joint computational link lab was established in the project, which bundles Berlin-wide expertise in the field of mass spectrometry and closes the growing gap between data generation and data analysis. The complexity and diversity of proteomic, metabolomic, and other omic technologies, the volume of data obtained from omics measurements, and the variety of applications make it necessary to establish synergies between different infrastructure hubs to fully exploit their potential.

Project: Berlin Cell Center

Project titel: Establishment Berlin Cell Center

Project duration: 02/21 – 12/21

Participating institutions: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Principal investigators:

  • Prof. Dr. M. Landthaler, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. N. Blüthgen, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Project description:

The aim of the project was to create a joint data room for single-cell analyses and to develop a concept for the joint use of infrastructures.

Project: Cryo-EM

Project titel: Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility of the Berlin Integrative Structural Biology Network

Project duration: 06/20 – 12/20

Participating institutions: Freie Universität Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Principal investigators:

  • Prof. Dr. Markus Wahl, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Christian Spahn, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  • Dr. Christoph Diebolder, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Project description:

The project supports the establishment of the Berlin Integrative Structural Biology Network (BIS). Based on the joint proposal and existing resources, BIS has created a platform to promote the sharing and further development of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) in Berlin.

Seed Funding Projects

Aim of funding:

The aim of the seed funding program was to promote the expansion of existing or the establishment of new research infrastructures in the humanities and social sciences and to raise the potential for joint cross-institutional research in the humanities and social sciences.

Project duration: 12 Month

Number of funded projects: Six

1. SF-Project: Uniting laboratory procedures across the social and medical sciences (UniSoMedSci)

Project description:

Alignment of laboratory procedures from the fields of linguistics, rehabilitation and medical sciences. Establishment of an initial medical-social and linguistic laboratory coordination. Establishment of standardized paradigms for future experiments.

Principal investigators:

  • Prof. Dr. Pia Knoeferle, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Fabian Klostermann, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

2. SF-Project: The Archeologic Virtual Archive (A VIA)

Project description:

Development of a common IT infrastructure for the creation, exchange and visualization of 3D models of archaeological finds.

Principal investigators:

  • Prof. Dr. Axel Gering, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Zarnekow, Technische Universität Berlin

3. SF-Project: Taste divers(e) on the go (Tango)

Project description:

Creating taste experiences and expanding knowledge about biodiversity by means of a mobile installation consisting of a mobile kitchen, a mobile sensory booth and a plant identification station. Draft, design and implementation of the sensory cabin and the mobile kitchens.

Principal investigators:

  • Prof. Dr. Susann Wicke, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Nina Langen, Technische Universität Berlin

4. SF-Project: Establishing a digital platform for China knowledge exchange - fostering teaching and research collaboration (BCCN)

Project description:

Establishment of a digital platform to promote teaching and research cooperation between BUA partners.

Platform: https://berlincontemporarychinanetwork.org/

Principal investigators:

  • Prof. Dr. Genia Kostka, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Sarah B. Eaton, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

5. SF-Project: Theater of Images (ToI). Studies on Image Based Teaching in Theater Studies and Art History

Project description:

The pilot project enables interdisciplinary exchange and cooperation between two BUA institutions that archive educational image material on the subject of theater: Digitization and data evaluation, development of an online portal, joint publication, application for funding.

Principal investigators:

  • Dr. Peter Jammerthal, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Jan Lazardzig, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Claudia Blümle, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Dr. Georg Schelbert, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

6. SF-Project: ORGANON terminology toolbox – a digital platform for interdisciplinary relevant terms

Project description:

Clarification and deepening of the need for a systematization of conceptual work envisaged with ORGANON, especially in interdisciplinary research.

Principal investigators:

  • PD. Werner Kogge, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Prof. Jan Slaby, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Prof. Markus Asper, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin