diff --git a/.readthedocs.yaml b/.readthedocs.yaml
index 7aac66d7..f8abbb3b 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yaml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yaml
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ version: 2
 # Set the version of Python and other tools you might need
 build:
   os: ubuntu-22.04
-  tools:
-    python: "3.11"
   apt_packages:
     # graphviz is required for sphinx.ext.graphviz
     - graphviz
+  tools:
+    python: "3.12"
 
 # Build documentation in the docs/ directory with Sphinx
 sphinx:
@@ -30,4 +30,7 @@ formats:
 # Optionally declare the Python requirements required to build your docs
 python:
   install:
-  - requirements: docs/requirements.txt
+    - method: pip
+      path: .
+      extra_requirements:
+        - docs
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 0b08cfa6..1791b0fc 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ Installation
    .. code-block:: console
 
     $ cd python4datascience-main
-    $ python3 -m venv .
-    $ . bin/activate
-    $ python -m pip install -r docs/requirements.txt
+    $ python3 -m venv .venv
+    $ . .venv/bin/activate
+    $ python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"
 
 #. Install the `Jupyter Notebook Extensions
    <https://jupyter-contrib-nbextensions.readthedocs.io/>`_ Javascript and CSS
diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index e9d3f27a..00000000
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Veit Schiele
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
-
-furo
-ipython
-ipywidgets
-nbsphinx
-sphinxcontrib-svg2pdfconverter
-sphinxext-opengraph
-# matplotlib is required for social cards
-matplotlib
-sphinx-copybutton
-sphinx_inline_tabs
-sphinx-lint
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9c630bc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+[project]
+name = "Python4DataScience"
+version = "24.2.0"
+authors = [
+  { name="Veit Schiele", email="veit@cusy.io" },
+]
+description = "Teaching materials for the cusy training courses on Python-based data science workflows: https://cusy.io/en/seminars"
+readme = "README.rst"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
+classifiers = [
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License",
+    "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+]
+dependencies = []
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+docs = [
+    "furo",
+    "ipython",
+    "ipywidgets",
+    "nbsphinx",
+    "sphinxcontrib-svg2pdfconverter",
+    "sphinxext.opengraph", # matplotlib is required for social cards
+    "matplotlib",
+    "sphinx-copybutton",
+    "sphinx_inline_tabs",
+    "sphinx-lint",
+]
+
+dev = [
+    "Python4DataScience[docs]",
+    "pre-commit",
+]
+
+[project.urls]
+"Homepage" = "https://github.com/cusyio/Python4DataScience/"
+"Bug Tracker" = "https://github.com/cusyio/Python4DataScience/issues"
+
+[tool.setuptools]
+packages = []