Members elected for Board of Trustees

(Published on 10.11.2021) We congratulate Prof. Vivien Petras, PhD, Prof. Dr. Dörte Schmidt and Dr. Sonja Schimmler on their new function.The Board of Trustees is the administrative-strategic control organ of the association.  Among other things, it monitors the...

GWK decides on funding for the NFDI Directorate

(Published on 08.11.2021) The directorate of the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) e.V. association will be funded by the federal and state governments with a sum of 17.5 million euros from 2022 to 2028. The decision on funding was made by the Joint...

Ten new NFDI consortia take off

(Published on 01.10.2021) Funding for ten more NFDI consortia began at the beginning of October. The decision had already been made by the Joint Science Conference (GWK) on 2 July. The GWK followed the recommendation of the German Research Foundation (DFG). The new...
First Parliamentary Lunch

First Parliamentary Lunch

First Parliamentary Lunch NFDI invites to Parliamentary Lunch (Published on 27.07.2021) On Wednesday, 16 June, members of the German Parliament (Bundestag) and their employees had the opportunity to learn about the major challenges in research data management as well...

Start of the FAIR Data Spaces project

Start of the FAIR Data Spaces project A FAIR Data Space for Research and Industry Gaia-X and NFDI start FAIR-Data Spaces project   (Published on 27.07.2021) The FAIR Data Spaces project was started in May 2021. It is planned for three years and is funded by the...