The self-study course is characterised by a clear structuring of nine blocks (Introduction to FDM; The Life Cycle of Research Data; DMP; Metadata and Metadata Standards; FAIR and CARE Principles; Data Quality; Data Organisation; Data Storage and Archiving; Law). The individual chapters contain different media (text, image and video files), tasks and are designed to build on each other thematically. The contents are supported by examples from different disciplines with literature references and links to further platforms and sources (e.g. DFG) and the learning objectives are successively recorded.