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“Agrischemas” – the FAIRagro Talk in April
The next edition of the FAIRagro Talk will take place on April 20—the title: “Agrischemas – Increasing the findability of agrosystem-related research datasets.” Gabriel Schneider and his team are working on one of FAIRagro’s central goals: ensuring the FAIR-conformity of research data. This requires comprehensive and relevant metadata. This is where Agrischemas comes in: FAIRagro’s…
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Exciting PhD position available in TA 3!
The Geoinformation Group within the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation (IGG) at the University of Bonn is offering a full-time, fully funded PhD position (f/m/d) for three years in accordance with § 2 (1) WissZeitVG. The position is funded until July 2027 from the FAIRagro project and afterwards from state funds. The position is located…
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Integrative Bioinformatics 2026 – register and submit now!
Premiere! DataPLANT—in collaboration with FAIRagro and others—is hosting the NFDI4LifeScience Conference in conjunction with the International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics from September 2–4, 2026, at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben. The event centers on the recognition that the future of the life sciences depends on a seamless…
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The all new FAIRagro DMP Service
What exactly is a Data Management Plan (DMP)? What are the benefits of a DMP? And why is it virtually impossible for researchers to avoid creating one? Our article on the topic answers these and all other important questions. And the best part: At rdmo.fairagro.net, any researcher in the field of agricultural sciences can easily…
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Our Help Desk recommends: Reliable sources for weather and climate data
Looking for weather data for your research? We’ve compiled a list of reliable sources here. If you have any further questions, our helpdesk will be happy to assist you. The DWD Open Data Portal: Here you’ll find a wide range of publicly available data from the German Weather Service (DWD). The Climate / Environment folder…
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Two new FAIRagro publications on complementary perspectives on data quality in agricultural land use data
Two articles published in February 2026, both partially funded through the FAIRagro consortium (DFG 501899475), address the quality of agricultural land use geodata from distinct yet deeply connected perspectives: Säurich, Schwieder, Preidl, Beyer & Möller (2026) — Are remote sensing-based crop type classifications suitable for calculating a landscape heterogeneity metric? A data-fitness-for-purpose assessment (in Ecological…
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This has been the 2nd Community Summit
We had been looking forward to it for a long time – and now the second Community Summit is already history. Over 100 interested parties from the large FAIRagro community came to Frankfurt/Main to visit FAIRagro at Senckenberg Nature Research to learn about the FAIRagro consortium and the progress made since the last summit, to…
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Brand new FAIRagro article published in “International Journal of Digital Earth”
Establishing sustainable agricultural systems while ensuring food security has become a global priority. Achieving this goal requires contributions from various fields of agricultural science, many of which rely on detailed information about crops. Recent advances in deep learning and the transnational harmonization of administrative data have led to the availability of increasingly large datasets containing…
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New workshop: “Research Management and Examples from Animal Research” – register now!
Our associate partner, the Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), is offering an exciting workshop on Tuesday, February 24, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.: “Research Management and Examples from Animal Research” teaches theoretical principles and practical skills in the field of research data management. Methodological approaches and tools used in animal research to…
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New FAIRagro paper published in “Science Direct”
A recently peer-reviewed article entitled “Long-Term Field Experiments Overview Map: An interactive open-access metadata platform to enhance networking and data reuse” has been published in the journal “Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.” In it, our colleagues present a novel overview map of long-term experiments in agriculture (LTEs). The map consolidates metadata from 688 long-term experiments,…
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The final program is here: learn everything about the 2nd FAIRagro Community Summit!
March 5 and 6 are just around the corner—the second FAIRagro Community will take place in Frankfurt am Main at the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research. Registration is closed. We have planned exciting sessions with many presentations, live demos, and posters for both days. The topics of the sessions, who the respective session chairs are,…
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Only a few places left: Legal Workshop Episode III – register now!
We are pleased to announce the third episode of our workshop series “Don’t panic! – A Survival Guide for Law and Ethics in Research.” Entitled “The license to research – who owns research data and what am I allowed to do with it?”, the workshop will take place on three consecutive days (March 24-26, 2026)…