National research data infrastructure (NFDI)

The NFDI is intended to systematically make databases from science and research, which are often stored decentralized, project-based and temporarily, available to the German scientific system. The NFDI will be designed by users of research data and by infrastructure institutions that cooperate within and between consortia. The NFDI is supposed to set standards in data management and, as a digital, regionally distributed and networked knowledge repository, to sustainably secure and make use of research data.

Subject to the provision of funds by their legislative bodies, the Federal Government and the Federal States will provide up to 90 million euros per year from 2019 to 2028 for the development and promotion of the NFDI; of this amount, the Federal Government will provide 90 per cent and the Federal States will bear ten per cent of the costs. A total of three rounds of funding is planned. The NFDI directorate is located at Karlsruhe.

Research consortia in which FIZ Karlsruhe participates

In the first round of funding, the Federal Government and the Federal States decided in the Joint Science Conference (GWK) to support nine consortia within the NFDI. FIZ Karlsruhe as one of the applicants is contributing to two consortia that were successfully applied for, i.e., the Consortium for research data on material and immaterial cultural heritage (NFDI4Culture) and the Chemistry Consortium (NFDI4Chem).

After the second round of funding, FIZ Karlsruhe contributes to further three consortia: NFDI for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (NFDI4DataScience), NFDI-MatWerk (consortium for materials science and materials engineering), and the Mathematical Research Data Initiative MaRDI.

After the third and final funding round, FIZ Karlsruhe is participating in four more consortia: in NFDI4Memory for the humanities dealing with history, in FAIRagro (FAIRe data infrastructure for agrosystems research), in NFDIxCS for the entire bandwidth of computer science, and in NFDI4Objects on the material legacies of human history. Thus, FIZ Karlsruhe is now significantly involved in nine of the 27 NFDI consortia.

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NFDI4Culture – Consortium for research data on material and immaterial cultural heritage

The NFDI4Culture consortium focuses on making very heterogeneous data from the entire field of culture and the related humanities retrievable and accessible across all disciplines and on continuously maintaining and preserving them in the long term.
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NFDI4Chem – Chemistry Consortium within the NFDI

The vision of NFDI4Chem is the digitalization of all key steps in chemical research.
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Mathematical Research Data Initiative (MaRDI consortium)

The goal of the Mathematical Research Data Initiative (MaRDI) is to develop a research data infrastructure that will be of great benefit not only to mathematics, but also to other fields.
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The NFDI-MatWerk consortium – a national research data infrastructure for materials science and materials engineering

NFDI-MatWerk will focus on the research areas of materials science and materials engineering.
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National research data infrastructure for data sciences and artificial intelligence (NFDI4DataScience)

NFDI4DataScience follows a vision: For Data Science and advances in artificial intelligence (AI), it is essential to fully support all steps of the complex and interdisciplinary lifecycle of research data.
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National research data infrastructure for historically working humanities (NFDI4Memory)

The consortium includes not only the historical sciences, but also other disciplines that use historical data as part of their methodology, such as economics and social sciences, geography, and regional studies.
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National research data infrastructure for the material legacies of human history (NFDI4Objects)

NFDI4Objects is the research data infrastructure for the material legacies of human history.
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National research date infrastructure for agrosystems research (FAIRagro)

In the face of huge agricultural challenges, FAIRagro focuses on agrosystems research.
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Consortium for establishing a national research data infrastructure for and together with computer science (NFDIxCS)

The aim of the NFDIxCS consortium is to create an infrastructure in which services for storing domain-specific data objects from computer science are provided, taking into account the FAIR principles
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Latest news

FIZ News – 13.03.2023
FIZ Karlsruhe startet Forschungsarbeiten in vier neuen NFDI-Konsortien

Press release – 10.11.2022
FIZ Karlsruhe auch in dritter NFDI-Förderrunde mit Beteiligung an vier Konsortien erfolgreich

Publication – 2022
Brünger-Weilandt, Sabine; Gehring, Petra: NFDI – wie sie wurde, was sie ist. Sabine Brünger-Weilandt und Petra Gehring im Gespräch, Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie (ZfBB), 2022; Vol. 69(1-2), S. 6-9; DOI: 10.3196/1864295020691226

Publication – 2022
Brünger-Weilandt, Sabine; Scholze Frank (Hg.), Editorial
Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie (ZfBB) - Jahrgang 69 (2022), Heft 1-2 (15. April 2022), Verlag Vittorio Klostermann GmbH, Frankfurt/Main; E-ISSN: 1864-2950, P-ISSN: 0044-2380, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3196/1864295020691212

Press release – 24.03.2022
Focusing on researchers: customized research data repositories for the chemistry and cultural heritage communities

Press release – 07.07.2021
FIZ Karlsruhe auch in zweiter Förderrunde der Nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI) erfolgreich

FIZ News – 01.04.2021
Aufbau der NFDI: GWK dankt FIZ Karlsruhe

Press release KIT and NFDI-directorate – 15.10.2020
Langfristig Zugriff auf Forschungsdaten sichern: Eröffnung der Geschäftsstelle der Nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur in Karlsruhe

FIZ News – 09.09.2020
National Research Data Infrastructure – new perspectives in collaborative science!
Video of the discussion held online on September 9, 2020.

Press release – 29.06.2020
FIZ Karlsruhe erfolgreich in erster Förderrunde der Nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI)

Press release – 02.03.2020
Informatiker York Sure-Vetter vom KIT wird Direktor der Nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI)

Press release – 09.05.2019
Directorate of National Research Data Infrastructure Will Be Located in Karlsruhe

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Contact

Prof. Dr. Harald Sack

Vice President Information Service Engineering
Phone:
+49 7247 808 195
+49 7247 808 195
harald.sack [at] fiz-karlsruhe.de