National Research Data Infrastructure consortia enter second funding phase
Important step towards permanently anchoring the research data infrastructure
Steine auf denen die Namen verschiedener Konsortien stehen und in der Mitte Congratulations
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The National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) continues to pick up speed: All nine subject and method consortia from the first round of calls from 2020 will continue to receive funding in the second funding phase. This was announced by the Joint Science Conference (GWK) of the federal and state governments in a DFG press releaseExternal link on Friday, July 4.
Die zweite Förderperiode beginnt im Oktober 2025 für folgende Konsortien:
- DataPLANTExternal link - Consortium for Botany
- GHGAExternal link – German Human Genome-Phenome Archive
- KonsortSWDExternal link– Consortium for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
- NFDI4BiodiversityExternal link - Consortium for Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences
- NFDI4CatExternal link – NFDI for Catalysis Sciences
- NFDI4ChemExternal link – Consortium for Chemistry
- NFDI4CultureExternal link – Consortium for Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage
- NFDI4HealthExternal link – Consortium for Health Data
- NFDI4INGExternal link – Consortium for the engineering sciences
The NFDI is a joint project of the federal and state governments that systematically supports scientists in handling research data. The consortia develop discipline-specific solutions to make data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable in accordance with the FAIR principles. The federal and state governments are providing around 92 million euros for further funding until the end of 2028.
An overview of all NFDI consortia and the local contact person can be found here.