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NFDI Talk with Björn Usadel
As part of the “NFDI Talk” series of events, Björn Usadel (TA 4 – Infrastructure Services) presented the exciting topic of FAIR Digital Objects today at 4 pm: FAIR Digital Objects – infrastructure agnostic research data life cycle in agro system sciences. For all those who missed it or were otherwise busy, here is the…
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Save the date: Community Summit 2026
We are looking forward to the next FAIRagro Community Summit on March 5 and 6, 2026 (lunch to lunch) in Frankfurt/Main on the premises of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (SGN). There. we present our current services, let you test them and discuss them, talk about the progress of our use cases and what we…
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FAIRagro is hosting a workshop at DigAgro 2025 – will you be there too?
From December 1–2, 2025, the brand-new DigAgro 2025 conference will take place in Tulln an der Donau, Austria – bringing together experts to explore the future of digitalization in agriculture and agri-sciences. The conference offers a platform to discuss how digital tools are transforming agroecology, plant production, and ecosystem research – from multiple disciplinary perspectives.…
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Meeting of DSSC and SLU in Uppsala / Sweden
The Research Data Management (RDM) teams from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), ZALF, and FAIRagro continued their exchange on best practices in RDM and met for three days in Uppsala, Sweden, in June. The goal was to reflect on their own work, explore new approaches, and further define future collaboration. ZALF/FAIRagro and SLU…
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Ready for testing: The FAIRagro Search Hub is online!
What is the FAIRagro Search Hub? It brings together data sets from the various areas of agricultural systems research (primarily plants, soil and the environment). The aim is to promote the implementation of the FAIR principles (findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability) in the field of agricultural research. The FAIRagro Search Hub is not a repository…
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MSc scholarship available in the agriRDM project
The agriRDM project is a collaborative initiative between Teagasc and University College Dublin(UCD) in Ireland, Wageningen University & Research (WUR) in the Netherlands, and ZALF(Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research) in Germany. This project aims to enhanceRDM uptake in the agri-food research community by understanding the human factors behinddata management practices. By examining how researchers…
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FAIRagro presentation at BiodiversiTea
Once a month our partners from NFDI4Biodiversity are hosting the Coffee Lecture series “BiodiversiTea”: a forum for presenting and discussing work, projects, tools and topics. An open round for everyone who is interested in finding out about and exchanging information on current developments and topics relating to biodiversity data. At the May edition our FAIRagro…
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This has been FAIRagro Talk Vol.4
On June 16, Lorenz Schmidt and Günter Filler from FAIRagro Participant Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin gave us an insight into the tasks and the state of affairs of Use Case 12: “Linking Agrosystem Data with Socio-Economic Information (LASI)”. The title: Farmland Data – Structures, Challenges and FAIR Principles Did you miss the appointment? Or do you…
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Save the date: New Legal Workshop in November
Brand new event in the series: “Don’t panic! A Survival Guide for Law and Ethics in Research” Two exciting workshops from FAIRagro, NFDI4 Biodiversity and NFDI4Earth have already taken place – the places were sought after and the events were instructive and inspiring for all researchers in environmental and agricultural research. On April 8, 9…
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“It’s not about infrastructure – it’s about people.”
Second meeting with the FAIRagro CommunityAdvisory Board (CAB) and the members of the Steering Committee on June 2 and 3, 2025 in Berlin An important component of FAIRagro’s work is the Community Advisory Board (CAB). It assumes a valuable strategic and advisory role by evaluating the status and progress of FAIRagro and formulating recommendations for…
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15 years of RDM at our co-applicant IPK – new paper published
The authors of this insightful – citable – article discuss success stories and pitfalls and summarize the experiences of 15 years of operating a central RDM infrastructure. They present measures for agile requirements elicitation, technical and organizational implementation, governance, training and market introduction and show the advantages of a participatory approach across all departments, personnel…
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Become a FAIRagro Associated Partner now!
Become part of a growing network that is shaping the future of FAIR and open data practices in agricultural research. As an associated partner, you will not only gain valuable benefits, but also strengthen the FAIRagro network, foster collaboration and feedback on tools and services, and help increase the impact and reach of FAIR data…