In total, member institutions of the U Bremen Research Alliance are involved in 12 of the current 26 NFDI consortia – serving as lead or co-lead institutions in four of them. Along with other initiatives, such as “DataNord,” the Data Competence Center for the Bremen region, these activities confirm Bremen’s emergence as a national hub for scientific data infrastructure.
Professor Dr. Jutta Günther, Chairperson of the U Bremen Research Alliance and President of the University of Bremen, remarked: “We’re very pleased to receive continued funding from the first NFDI round. This success – and the significant involvement of our member institutions in the NFDI consortia – clearly highlights Bremen’s strong role in shaping the National Research Data Infrastructure.”
Professor Dr. Frank Oliver Gl?ckner, Spokesperson for both DataNord and the NFDI4Biodiversity consortium, added: “Bremen has a truly unique profile when it comes to managing research data. It’s not just about the volume of data or the quality of repositories – it’s above all about the structured and sustainable use of this data.”
Since 2018, establishing a National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) has been a declared objective of Germany’s federal and state governments. The NFDI is intended to set standards in research data management and help ensure that scientific data remains sustainably usable. Across three calls for proposals between 2020 and 2022, a total of 26 consortia from all four major research areas, as well as one union of consortia for crosscutting base services have received funding.
Member institutions of the U Bremen Research Alliance are involved in the following five of the nine consortia from the first NFDI funding round:
KonsortSWD – NFDI4Society – Co-spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Betina Hollstein, University of Bremen. KonsortSWD is further developing the research data infrastructure for the social, behavioral, educational, and economic sciences.
NFDI4Biodiversity – Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Frank Oliver Gl?ckner, University of Bremen;
Participants: Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT). NFDI4Biodiversity addressed the shared use of biodiversity and environmental data.
NFDI4Culture – Participant: German Maritime Museum. NFDI4Culture is focused on research data from architecture, arts, music, theater, dance, and film and media studies.
NFDI4Ing – Participant: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). NFDI4ING connects engineering disciplines and facilitates the networking of their research data.
NFDI4Health – Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Iris Pigeot, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS; Co-applicant: Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS. In NFDI4Health, a multidisciplinary team in Germany is establishing an infrastructure and efficient services for FAIR personal health data.
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