The picture shows a black circle containing a hand holding a university. There is a blue horizontal line to the right of the circle and a gray horizontal line to the left. Participating universities is written above the circle.

Researchers can use Coscine, including support and storage space access, either through their participating university/organization, a supporting NFDI consortium, or through a cooperation with one of the two options.

To use Coscine via a participating university/organization, the latter must first have concluded the relevant contracts for our offer. Universities/organizations can request advice on contracts at any time from Coscine 2nd-Level Support (Contact). In a second step, the respective organization must train its own 1st level personnel as part of our training offerings to advise its own users and to evaluate storage space requests.

For the useage via an NFDI consortium, researchers must be officially supported and advised by the NFDI consortium. Persons associated with the respective NFDI consortium must take advantage of Coscine’s training courses in order to be able to advise researchers and evaluate storage space applications as trained 1st level personnel. NFDI consortia can request the training courses from Coscine 2nd-level support at any time (contact).

Note: Researchers can also use Coscine without signing a contract with their own organization or receiving support from an NFDI consortium (see Terms of Use), but they will not benefit from our support services or access to storage space.

A list of all currently participating universities and NFDI consortia can be found below.

DH.NRW universities trained in 1st level support for Coscine:

University Contact
Aachen University of Applied Sciences fdm@fh-aachen.de
Bielefeld University servicedesk@uni-bielefeld.de
Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences it-servicedesk@hsbi.de
Bochum University of Applied Sciences katharina.koch@hs-bochum.de
Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences bibliothek.forschungsservice@h-brs.de
FH Münster University of Applied Sciences forschungsdatenmanagement@fh-muenster.de
Ruhr University Bochum its-helpdesk@rub.de
RWTH Aachen University servicedesk@rwth-aachen.de
TU Dortmund University service.itmc@tu-dortmund.de
University of Bonn forschungsdaten@uni-bonn.de
University of Cologne fdm-storage@uni-koeln.de
University of Duisburg-Essen rds@uni-due.de
University of Siegen e-science-service@uni-siegen.de

Consortia trained in 1st level support for Coscine:

NFDI-Consortia Contact
NFDI4ING HelpDesk NFDI4ING
NFDI-MatWerk Contact Form NFDI-MatWerk