Data Management Plan (DMP)
Many funding agencies such as the Swiss National Science Foundation and the European Research Council are embracing the Open Science principle according to which research funded by the public should be freely and publicly accessible as far as possible. Researchers who are granted public funds are expected to share research data in appropriate digital repositories under the motto “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”. Hence, those who apply for public funds are requested to present a Data Management Plan (DMP) that outlines the entire lifecycle and the management of the data produced in the scope of the research project. The Research Data Manager assists and advices researchers that aim at applying for a grant and are requested to present a DMP. In this sense, particular attention must be placed on ethical and legal matters in data production as well as on protection of and access management to personal and sensitive data.
