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 infrastructure for research data (NFDI, Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur) 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

Further funding for the consortia of the first call for proposals

On July 4, the Joint Science Conference (Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz GWK) decided to continue funding all nine consortia of the first 2020 call for proposals for the National Research Data Infrastructure (Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur NFDI):

DataPLANT (RUB – Participant)
Consortium for research data management in the field of basic plant research
GHGA
National infrastructure for human genome data.
KonsortSWD/NFDI4Society
Consortium for social, educational, behavioural and economic sciences
NFDI4Biodiversity
Network for collecting and working with biodiversity data
NFDI4Cat
Consortium for catalysis research and catalysis-related sciences such as chemical engineering and process engineering
NFDI4Chem
Open and FAIR infrastructure for research data management in chemistry
NFDI4Culture
Infrastructure for research data on tangible and intangible cultural assets within the overall structure of the NFDI
NFDI4Health (RUB – Participant)
Establishment of a comprehensive inventory of German epidemiological, public health and clinical study data
NFDI4ING
Consortium for the German engineering research landscape

You can find more information in the GWK press release or in the news release of NFDI.

Liste der Konsortien (inkl. RUB-Beteiligung)

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

Internationale Initiativen

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