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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…

On April 26, the first virtual Virtual FAIRagro Plenary Meeting April 2023 meeting after the project start in March 2023 took place. All co-spokespersons, TA- and Measure Leads, participants and already hired project staff were invited. Approximately 55 people from 23 participating institutions attended the meeting. At the beginning, Frank Ewert and Xenia Specka reported on…

New and sustainable methods of research data management (RDM) are needed to meet the future challenges in agricultural sciences and to promote integrated and holistic research approaches. The involvement of scientific users is a crucial success factor for their development. We conducted an online survey in 2020 among different user groups in agricultural sciences about…

Matthias Lange and Daniel Arend from the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), and Björn Usadel from the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) presented our consortium at the PLANT2030 status seminar. Many plant researchers showed interest in FAIRagro and exciting discussions took place.

This March is the official project launch for the FAIRagro consortium (2023-2028). FAIRagro consists of about 30 agricultural research institutions in Germany and is coordinated by ZALF. As part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), the consortium will improve the framework for cross-institutional and cross-scale research. Important tasks and goals include support and advice…

A general FAIRagro article was published in Informatik Spektrum. This article presents the FAIRagro consortium in general and its objectives. Specka, X., Martini, D., Weiland, C. et al. FAIRagro: Ein Konsortium in der Nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI) für Forschungsdaten in der Agrosystemforschung. Informatik Spektrum (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00287-022-01520-w

We have published our FAIRagro proposal, as submitted to DFG in 2021, on Zenodo. It can be accessed under DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7528172.

As confirmed by the Joint Science Conference (GWK) in a press conference on November 4, 2022, FAIRagro will be included as a consortium in the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) and will be funded by the federal and state governments from March 2023. A funding period of five years is envisaged. In November 2021, the…

The first job offers in FAIRagro have now been published. If you want to join FAIRagro, just apply. Look at our job offers

On 29 and 30 June FAIRagro was an invited guest at the “1st Summer Conference of the GFPi Plant Innovation Department“. In addition to exciting insights into the world of breeding, it was impressively shown which data are collected, stored and evaluated with which methods. For example, powerful field robots equipped with sensors and supported…

At International Data Week 2022 (IDW 2022), we presented FAIRagro on a virtual poster. Among others, this attracted the attention of Stefanie Kethers, Program Coordinator of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) “Translational Research Data Challenges” and former member of the RDA Secretariat. Stefanie was particularly interested in the topic of data privacy and the…