36th Open Science Meet-up: National infrastructures for FAIR research data (NFDIs) in a nutshell

Monday 2 Mar 2026, 13:00 → 15:00 Europe/Berlin

Zoom: https://uni-goettingen.zoom-x.de/j/69170736793?pwd=2TOZ88eLraSswfWois5DsEW3NCHI84.1

Astrid Orth (SUB Göttingen), Birgit Schmidt (SUB Göttingen), Daniel Beucke (SUB Göttingen), Julika Mimkes (SUB Göttingen)

Managing research data depends on infrastructures and support to make these tasks possible and easy for researchers. Overall, this aims at making research data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR principles), and as open as possible while as closed as necessary. Taking good care of research data benefits you as an invidual, but also research communities and society at large.

In this session, we would like to explore and discuss concrete data infrastructures which are offered at the national level, via Germany’s National Research Data Infrastructure (“Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur”, NFDI). Overall, currently 26 NFDI consortia plus one NFDI coordinating horizontal basic services address the diverse needs of disciplinary and interdisciplinary research communities. The NFDIs involve researchers, data stewards and technical experts to step up and interconnect existing and evolving infrastructures and services.

Questions we would like to investigate include:

• How can researchers discover and use NFDI services?
• How is user input/feedback collected and addressed?
• How is interoperability with other services addressed (institutional-national-disciplinary?)

Bring your curiosity and questions, and join us for this session!

Pad: https://pad.gwdg.de/9ryi60CySWubGcYb4eaemw#

1 Welcome & Round of introductions

2 Short presentations

• Overview of NFDI and introduction to Base4NDFI and Text+ - Lukas Weimer, SUB
• DAPHNE4NFDI - Markus Osterhoff, UGOE
• NFDI4Health - Harald Kusch, UMG
• FAIRagro - Marcus Schmidt, ZALF
• …

3 Reporting back & discussion