© Olena/stock.adobe.com

Initiatives and associations

As research data varies from discipline to discipline, we have compiled a list of consortia and associations that specialise in specific subject communities or are part of certain national initiatives.

NFDI

The National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) promotes and enhances the infrastructure for research data in Germany with the goal of systematically unlocking, networking, and making valuable datasets from science and research accessible in a sustainable and high-quality manner for the entire German science system.

Source: https://www.nfdi.de/?lang=en

Consortia

The subject-specific expertise of the NFDI is developed within the consortia of the NFDI. The NFDI comprises 26 consortia and the association of consortia, Base4NFDI. The consortia, selected through a science-guided process by the DFG, cover diverse scientific disciplines, ranging from cultural, social, humanities, and engineering sciences to life and natural sciences.

Source: https://www.nfdi.de/consortia/?lang=en

List of consortia
  • Base4NFDI: Basic services for NFDI
  • BERD@NFDI: NFDI for Business, Economic and Related Data
  • KonsortSWD: Consortium for the Social, Educational, Behavioural and Economic Sciences
  • NFDI4Culture: Infrastructure for Research Data on Material and Immaterial Cultural Heritage
  • NFDI4Memory: Consortium for the Historically Oriented Humanities [RUB - Participant]
  • NFDI4Objects: Research Data Infrastructure for the Material Remains of Human History [RUB - Participant]
  • Text+: Consortium for language and text based research data
  • NFDI4Cat: NFDI4Cat focuses on catalysis research and catalysis-related sciences such as chemical engineering and process technology
  • FAIRmat: Consortium for research data management in the field of condensed matter physics and chemical physics [RUB - Co-Applicant]
  • NFDI4Chem: NFDI4Chem establishes an open and FAIR infrastructure for research data management in chemistry.
  • MaRDI: MaRDI develops and establishes standards and services for the handling of mathematical research data.
  • NFDI4Earth: The NFDI4Earth consortium addresses the digital needs of researchers in the Earth System Sciences. [RUB - Member]
  • DAPHNE4NFDI: DAPHNE4NFDI is building an open and FAIR infrastructure for research data management for research with photons at synchrotron radiation sources and neutrons. [RUB - Participant]
  • PUNCH4NFDI: The PUNCH4NFDI consortium combines expertise in data management in particle physics, astroparticle physics, hadron and nuclear physics and astronomy. [RUB - Participant]
  • NFDI4Biodiversity : Network for collecting and working with biodiversity data
  • NFDI4Health: NFDI4Health aims to establish a comprehensive inventory of German epidemiological, public health and clinical study data. [RUB - Participant]
  • DataPLANT: Consortium for research data management in the field of basic plant research [RUB - Participant]
  • GHGA: National infrastructure for human genome data
  • FAIRagro: FAIR data infrastructure for Agrosystems
  • NFDI4Immuno: National Research Data Infrastructure for Immunology [RUB - Co-Spokesperson]
  • NFDI4BIOIMAGE: National Research Data Infrastructure for Microscopy and Bioimage Analysis
  • NFDI4Microbiota: Consortium for Microbiota Research [RUB – Participant]
  • NFDI4Ing: NFDI4Ing represents the German engineering research landscape
  • NFDI4DataScience: Consortium for the development, establishment and maintenance of a national research data infrastructure for the data science and artificial intelligence research community
  • NFDI-MatWerk: Consortium for research data management in the field of materials science and materials engineering [RUB – Participant]
  • NFDI4Energy: National Research Data Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Energy System Research
  • NFDIxCS: National Research Data Infrastructure for and with Computer Science
International initiatives
  • EUDAT: The EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure (or EUDAT CDI) is an infrastructure for integrated data services and resources to support research in Europe.
  • EOSC: Single contact point for European researchers and innovators, providing a wide range of resources for (re)use in advanced data-driven research
  • GO FAIR: Initiative to implement FAIR data at European level
National initiatives
  • RDA (RDA Germany): Infrastructure to promote data exchange and data-driven research
State Initiatives
  • bwFDM: Federal state initiative for research data management in Baden-Württemberg
  • fdm-bayern: Research Data Management Bavaria, networking and exchange platform for Bavarian and supra-regional institutions
  • FDM-BB: Research Data Management Infrastructure in Brandenburg
  • FDM-NDS: State Initiative Research Data Management Lower Saxony
  • FDM.NRW: State Initiative for Research Data Management in North Rhine-Westphalia
  • FDM.rlp: State Initiative for Research Data Management in Rhineland-Palatinate
  • FDM-SH: The Schleswig-Holstein State Initiative for Research Data Management
  • HeFDI: Hessian research data infrastructures
  • Sax-FDM: Infrastructure for research data management in Saxony
  • TKFDM: Thuringian Competence Network for Research Data Management
en_GBEnglish