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New! Our FAIRagro DSSC has published fact sheets on the types of data used in FAIRagro in the life sciences repository “Publisso”. The fact sheets introduce data types and provide an overview about typically used data in the agrosystem research community. For soil data, field data in general, genetic data (“omics data”), phenotyping data, field…

A motivated team from FAIRagro was present at this year’s meeting of the Gesellschaft für Pflanzenbauwissenschaften e.V. (GPW) from 4.10. to 6.10.2023. Under the motto “Digital tools, big data, modeling and sensing methods for sustainable and climate smart crop and grassland systems” there were exciting presentations and discussions on the topic of agricultural systems research…

The scheduled election for the FAIRagro Steering Committee (election period: two years) took place from September 15-22. According to the FAIRagro Governance, four representatives (plus substitutes) were elected by the participating institutions from the following groups: – 2 persons from the group of our Participants, – 1 person from the group of co-applicants and –…

From September 26 to 29, the 63rd German Plant Protection Conference took place in Göttingen – FAIRagro was there with an information booth. More than 800 participants were registered for the “German Plant Protection Confernece” (Deutsche Pflanzenschutztagung) for four days on the campus of the Georg-August-University in Göttingen – with a total of 370 exciting…

On September 25, the long-awaited joint kickoff meeting / onboarding finally took place in Berlin. Starting at 10 a.m., everyone was able to get to know each other personally at Quadriga Media’s offices at Werderscher Markt in the heart of Berlin. In addition to entertaining rounds of introductions, during which there was much laughter, it…

From 12 to 14 September 2023 the first issue of CoRDI – Conference on Research Data Infrastructure – took place in Kalrsruhe, organized by NFDI e.V. in cooperation with Karlsruhe Institute of Technolgy (KIT). Under the theme “Connecting Communities” the conference did focus on establishing interdisciplinary research data management (RDM). Research data form the basis…

Our Data Steward Team offers you – as a part of the agricultural research community – support for all your questions concerning research data management. We are there for you: in each phase of the data lifecycle – from research and the creation of a data management plan to the publication of your data. This…

NFDI-Director Prof. York Sure-Vetter is talking in the latest “IPK-Journal” about FAIRagro, the goals of the consortium and the benefits for the partners. In the current “IPK-Journal”, published by the Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, NFDI-Director Prof. York Sure-Vetter is talking in an extensive interview about the continuously growing importance of data…

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New presentation published: “FAIRagro Task Areas and their collaboration with Use Case 3” During the FAIRagro Plenary on April 26, 2023, the authors of this presentation discussed the goals and current work of the respective Task Areas. Special consideration was given to Use Case 3 (“Streamlining pest and disease data to advance integrated pest management”),…

On Monday, May 8 2023, the PhenoRob Career Fair took place at the Bonn University Club – FAIRagro was part of it. “PhenoRob – Robotics and Phenotyping for Sustainable Crop Production” is a Cluster of Excellence of the University of Bonn and the Science Research Center at Juelich. It is researching methods and new technologies…