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What is FAIRagro?
The FAIRagro consortium with more than 30 partners is building a FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) research data management system for the agrosystems research community. We are developing the right tools and workflows to lay the foundations for sustainable crop production – now and in the future.
Question of the month
Max, expert in soil ecology, asks:
Which open source licences do you recommend for the workflows developed in scientific projects?
As is so often the case, it depends: if you want to reach as many users as possible in a pragmatic and flexible way, the MIT license is a good choice. If you want the community to benefit from modifications to your original software, the GPLv3 license is the obvious choice. You can find out why this is the case, along with all other relevant information, in our roadmap to FAIR code publication.
News
- Workshop at DigAgro 2025 in Tulln an der DonauDigAgro 2025, which took place from December 1 to 2, 2025, in Tulln an der Donau (Austria), is a newly launched international conference that aims to bring together various aspects of digitalization… Read more: Workshop at DigAgro 2025 in Tulln an der Donau
- The last FAIRagro Talk in 2025: Recording and Charts now availableOn Monday, December 1, at 3 pm. the last FAIRagro Talk for 2025 took place: Ulrike Werban and Johannes Rabiger-Völlmer (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) told us everything about the new FAIRagro… Read more: The last FAIRagro Talk in 2025: Recording and Charts now available
- Joint workshop FAIRagro / NFDI4Bioimage at KasselOn November 26, FAIRagro employees visited the University of Kassel to join forces with their colleagues from NFDI4Bioimage in delivering a training workshop on “Image Data Management in the Biological Sciences and… Read more: Joint workshop FAIRagro / NFDI4Bioimage at Kassel
- FAIRagro at the ELIXIR Biohackathon Europe 2025Our colleagues from FAIRagro, DataPLANT, and NFDI4Biodiversity were represented at the ELIXIR Biohackathon Europe 2025 (November 3–7, 2025) in Berlin, where partners collaborated on over 30 projects aimed at improving data quality… Read more: FAIRagro at the ELIXIR Biohackathon Europe 2025
- New: The FAIRagro Knowledge Base!Questions about research data management in agrosystems research? Looking for overviews or instructions? Unsure about legal issues? Whether you are a researcher, data officer, developer, or just curious, our new Knowledge Base… Read more: New: The FAIRagro Knowledge Base!
- Please note: Legal Workshop Episode III (Nov 11-13) has to be postponedWe regret to announce that the three-day workshop “Legal Workshop Episode III: The License to Research: Who owns research data and what can I do with it?” cannot take place as planned… Read more: Please note: Legal Workshop Episode III (Nov 11-13) has to be postponed
Events
Here you will find a selection of relevant events – by FAIRagro, with FAIRagro participation or of interest to FAIRagro and the agrosystems research community. Have we missed something? Please let us know with exciting additions.
Webinar: A Tool for Planning Data management in Biodiversity, Ecological, and Environmental Research
Good data management begins with planning, and a Data Management Plan (DMP) is the best way to start. In this session you will get a clear introduction to Data Management Plans, a guided tour of the GFBio support service, and the chance to explore the free DMP Tool, GFBio offers, yourself.
Organizer: WiNoDa, NFDI4Biodiversity
Registration via WiNoDa
Participation free of charge
Language: English
Lecture: Data-Driven Agrifood Systems – norms for the agriculture of the future
Part 4 of the Online Speaker Series: Digital growth: Data in agriculture and research by Dr. Johanna Ahmann (Landwirtschaftskammer Nordrhein-Westfalen) and Dr. Christian Hennig (phermarobotics GmbH).
Event series held in German.
Further informations on Hans Eisenmann Academy, TU of Munich.
FAIRagro Community Summit 2026
The next FAIRagro Community Summit is coming up. FAIRagro cordially invites all interested parties to the 2nd Community Summit on March 5 and 6, 2026! Registration will start soon.
FAIRagro Blog
This is where we publish topics from the FAIRagro universe: things you always wanted to know, insights into day-to-day business, answers to burning and not-so-burning questions, impressions and reports from the field: everything about the world of FAIRagro.
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How to (re)use your own publication
Reusing your own publication can be problematic if it has been submitted to a journal and the journal acquires the rights of use. Lea Sophie Singson explains the copyright options available to researchers when reusing their own publications or research data.
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SciWIn-Client – what is it actually?
Better, easier, more beautiful work … what stressed researcher wouldn’t want that? Task Area 4 of FAIRagro develops and provides the central infrastructure services for the consortium. One of the four workpackages of TA 4 is Measure 4.4: Scientific Workflow Infrastructure (SciWIn). An essential part of this work package is the conception and development of…
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We love harvesting – why is that?
Many people wonder why we at FAIRagro love harvesting so much according to our slogan (“We love harvesting”). Carsten Hoffmann, PI and Project Manager from our TA5, explains: “This slogan is a play on words. Of course, harvesting crops is an essential and endearing part of agriculture. But the process of “harvesting” is also common…
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