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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…

  • Comprehensive benchmark data set collection published in Use Case 5

    Use case 5 consolidated datasets into a benchmark for comprehensive field phenotyping, covering multiple vegetation periods, various spatial and temporal resolutions, and addressing a wide range of plant traits from major Central European crops. The data was carefully selected, curated, and enriched with detailed metadata.  1. Introduction Climate change, through shifts in temperature and precipitation…

  • New Co-Spokesperson: Harald von Waldow

    As of January 1, 2025, Harald von Waldow (Thünen Institute) is Co-Spokesperson of FAIRagro. Harald von Waldow replaces his predecessor Florian Hoedt (also Thünen Institute). The Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute in Braunschweig is the Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forests and Fisheries and co-applicant of the FAIRaro consortium. We would like to thank…

  • Use Case (Pilot) 11

    BrAPI Interation on PSI Hardware The descrition of this use is following asap Partner: IPK Gatersleben Description: The description of this Use Case is following asap More Use Cases Use case 1: Exploiting genotype × location × year × management interactions for sustainable crop production Use case 2: Assessing tradeoffs for optimal crop nitrogen management…

  • New Year’s address by Prof. Dr. Frank Ewert

    Dear colleagues in FAIRagro, an eventful and inspiring year lies behind us! Since the start of our project in March 2023, we have made impressive progress together. Collaboration within our consortium has become even more productive this year and we have successfully positioned ourselves further in the NFDI. I am particularly proud of the many…

  • Our new participant: The Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

    The German Research Foundation has approved the inclusion of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) as a new participant in the FAIRagro consortium. This makes the Humboldt-Universität the 21st participant in FAIRagro – bringing the total number of institutions involved in FAIRagro to 32. The use case pilot that the Humboldt-Universität is contributing to FAIRagro deals with…

  • Linked data in the age of AI – FAIRagro was at the symposium

    On December 12 and 13, FAIRagro – along with KIDA, nfdi4health and the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) – co-organized the symposium “Linked Data in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence – New Perspectives or Outdated Vision?” at the BfR in Berlin. The aim of the event was to strengthen networking between the diverse…

  • Announcement: 2nd Use Case Call

    The 2nd FAIRagro Use Case Call gives you and your institution the opportunity to tackle – as an active participant in the NFDI consortium – challenges in research data management (RDM) in the agricultural sciences and to develop joint innovative solutions in our network of experts that make agricultural research more efficient and future-oriented! Through…

  • We are hiring!

    As part of our consortium, the JKI is looking for a Geodata Quality Analyst in the “Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence” team in the lush surroundings of beautiful Kleinmachnow just on the Berlin city limits. If you enjoy meaningful work in an interdisciplinary environment, have already dealt with agriculturally relevant geodata and enjoy working in a…

  • Successful TA 4 retreat 2024 in Braunschweig

    On November 25 and 26, this year’s annual retreat of FAIRagro Task Area 4 “Infrastructure Services” took place at the Thünen Institute in Braunschweig under the leadership of Matthias Lange. Representatives from the four other task areas in the consortium and from the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (Leibniz-Institut für Gemüse- und Zierpflanzenbau,…

  • 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…

  • University of Rostock is our new participant!

    We are delighted that the German Research Foundation (Deutsch Forschungsgemeinschaft | DFG) has approved the inclusion of the University of Rostock as a new participant in the FAIRagro consortium. The University of Rostock is not only the 20th participant in FAIRagro, but also the first institution from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to take part – bringing the total…