All ten consortia of the second funding round will receive further funding. This was decided by the Joint Science Conference (GWK) on 10 July. The new funding period for the second project phase will begin in October for BERD@NFDI, DAPHNE4NFDI, FAIRmat, MaRDI, NFDI-MatWerk, NFDI4DataScience, NFDI4Earth, NFDI4Microbiota, PUNCH4NFDI and Text+. The federal and state governments are providing a total of around 71 million euros for this purpose, until the end of 2028.
The consortia are evaluated at regular intervals by the German Research Foundation (DFG). On the basis of this evaluation, the federal and state governments decide in the GWK on the further funding of the consortia. The procedure is regulated in the ‘Agreement between the Federal Government and the Länder concerning the Establishment and Funding of a National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)’.
For NFDI, the continued funding of all ten consortia of the second round is very good news, underlining NFDI’s success. Thanks to the funding that has been pledged, the ten consortia can continue to work towards realising the shared NFDI vision of ‘Data as a common good for excellent research’.
“I am delighted that all the renewal applications from the second round have been awarded funding and that the further development of NFDI can thus continue,” says Prof. Dr. York Sure-Vetter, Director of the NFDI Association.
Last year, the GWK had approved all the renewal applications from the nine consortia of the first round (DataPLANT, GHGA, KonsortSWD, NFDI4Biodiversity, NFDI4Cat, NFDI4Chem, NFDI4Culture, NFDI4Health and NFDI4ING).
Further information on the ten consortia of the second funding round:
- BERD@NFDI
- DAPHNE4NFDI
- FAIRmat
- MaRDI
- NFDI-MatWerk
- NFDI4DataScience
- NFDI4Earth
- NFDI4Microbiota
- PUNCH4NFDI
- Text+
About NFDI
Data as a common good for excellent research, organised by the scientific community in Germany. That is the vision of the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). Research data is a valuable treasure for our society. It can be used to gain new insights that enable innovation and strengthen Germany as a hub of knowledge. Often, research data is neither findable nor interoperable, and thus cannot be reused or further utilised. The German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) aims to change this and unlock new potential for knowledge generation and interdisciplinary connections.
Contact person:
Nathalie Rathgeb, Scientific Officer PR/Communication
Tel. +49 721 988 994 20
Mail: nathalie.rathgeb@nfdi.de
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