From 11-15 December 2023, the second BioHackathon Germany, organized by de.NBI, will take place in Bielefeld. In 11 projects, participants can work on questions from the fields of bioinformatics, life sciences and data management. FAIRagro is involved in the project "Increasing FAIRness in agrosystem sciences and plant phenomics".
From 12 to 14 September 2023 the first issue of CoRDI - Conference on Research Data Infrastructure - took place in Kalrsruhe, organized by NFDI e.V. in cooperation with Karlsruhe Institute of Technolgy (KIT). Under the theme "Connecting Communities" the conference did focus on establishing interdisciplinary research data management (RDM).
Our Data Steward Team offers you - as a part of the agricultural research community - support for all your questions concerning research data management. We are there for you: in each phase of the data lifecycle - from research and the creation of a data management plan to the publication of your data. This FAIRagro service is free of charge. More information and contact here.
NFDI-Director Prof. York Sure-Vetter is talking in the latest "IPK-Journal" about FAIRagro, the goals of the consortium and the benefits for the partners.
Check it out regularly : our latest job offers - i. e. a PhD position at FZJ in Jülich
New presentation published: "FAIRagro Task Areas and their collaboration with Use Case 3"
On Monday, May 8 2023, the PhenoRob Career Fair took place at the Bonn University Club - FAIRagro was part of it.
On April 26, the first virtual Virtual FAIRagro Plenary Meeting April 2023 meeting after the project start in March 2023 took place. All co-spokespersons, TA- and Measure Leads, participants and already hired project staff were invited. Approximately 55 people from 23 participating institutions attended the meeting.
New and sustainable methods of research data management (RDM) are needed to meet the future challenges in agricultural sciences and to promote integrated and holistic research approaches. The involvement of scientific users is a crucial success factor for their development. We conducted an online survey in 2020 among different user groups in agricultural sciences about their RDM practices and needs. We published the results in PLoS ONE. In addition to the diversity of the research data landscape in agricultural science in Germany, the results also show challenges, deficits, and uncertainties we face in dealing with research data and outline initial approaches to solving them.
Senft M, Stahl U, Svoboda N (2022) Research data management in agricultural sciences in Germany: We are not yet where we want to be. PLoS ONE 17(9): e0274677. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274677
Matthias Lange and Daniel Arend from the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), and Björn Usadel from the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) presented our consortium at the PLANT2030 status seminar. Many plant researchers showed interest in FAIRagro and exciting discussions took place.
This March is the official project launch for the FAIRagro consortium (2023-2028). FAIRagro consists of about 30 agricultural research institutions in Germany and is coordinated by ZALF. As part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), the consortium will improve the framework for cross-institutional and cross-scale research. Important tasks and goals include support and advice on research data management, a unified search portal for research data in the field of agrosystem research, and the networking of existing research data repositories with agricultural science backgrounds.
We are pleased to finally move from the theoretical planning to the productive project phase. Currently, we are advertising vacancies in the various institutions to fill the approximately 40 project positions soon. On April 26, the consortium will meet in a first FAIRagro Plenary to present the planned work within the project.
More information: press release of ZALF "Funding for simplified access to agrosystems research data"