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:

DataPLANT: Consortium for research data management in the field of basic plant research.
GHGA: National infrastructure for human genome data.
KonsortSWD: Consortium for social, educational, behavioural and economic sciences.
NFDI4Cat: NFDI4Cat focuses on catalysis research and catalysis-related sciences such as chemical engineering and process technology
NFDI4Biodiversity: Network for collecting and working with biodiversity data.
NFDI4Chem:NFDI4Chem establishes an 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:NFDI4Health aims to establish a comprehensive inventory of German epidemiological, public health and clinical study data.
NFDI4Ing: NFDI4Ing represents the German engineering research landscape.
BERD@NFDI: BERD@NFDI is dedicated to building a powerful platform for collecting, (pre-)processing, analysing, and storing economic and related data.
DAPHNE4NFDI:DAPHNE4NFDI is building an open and FAIR infrastructure for research data management for research with photons at synchrotron radiation sources and neutrons.
FAIRmat:Consortium for research data management in the field of condensed matter physics and chemical physics
MaRDI: MaRDI develops and establishes standards and services for the handling of mathematical research data.
NFDI4DataScience: Consortium for the development, establishment and maintenance of a national research data infrastructure for the data science and artificial intelligence research community.
NFDI4earth: The NFDI4Earth consortium addresses the digital needs of researchers in the Earth system sciences.
NFDI-MatWerk: Consortium for research data management in the field of materials science and materials engineering.
PUNCH4NFDI: The PUNCH4NFDI consortium combines expertise in data management in particle physics, astroparticle physics, hadron and nuclear physics and astronomy.
Text+: Consortium for language and text-based research data.

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.
GO FAIR: Initiative to implement the FAIR Data principles.

National initiatives

RDA (RDA Germany)): Infrastructure to promote data sharing and data-driven research.
GO FAIR: Initiative to implement the FAIR Data principles.

State initiatives

bwFDM: Baden-Württemberg accompanying and ongoing development project for research data management
FDM-BB: Research Data Management Infrastructure in Brandenburg.
FDM.NRW: State Initiative for Research Data Management in North Rhine-Westphalia.
HeFDI: Hessian research data infrastructures at Philipps University of Marburg.
Sax-FDM: Infrastructure for research data management in Saxony
TKFDM: Thuringian Competence Network for Research Data Management