Raising awareness for RDM: The importance of multipliers within the institution

Bringing RDM into practice at the institutional level and raising awareness among researchers, administrative and infrastructural stakeholders is challenging. Thus, we placed special focus on the role of voluntary multipliers within the institution. These voluntary multipliers are also referred to as “data champions” [1]
and can be considered key actors for raising awareness for RDM among researchers as their peers and can serve to complement the work of professional RDM staff (such as data stewards).