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The DFG’s expert panel “National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)” recommends FAIRagro for funding from 2023 onwards. In a combination of written procedure and hybrid meeting, it deliberated on the 15 consortia proposals submitted in 2021 in the third round of calls for proposals. As a result, the NFDI expert panel recommends FAIRagro to the Joint…

On 20 June 2022, we organised the 2nd FAIRagro Community Workshop with almost 100 participants on the topic of “Services and Tools – Useful Services and Tools for FAIR Data Management in Agrosystems Research“. The aim of this workshop was to inform our community about planned tools, frameworks and services, to interest, motivate and network…

The Improving Global Agricultural Data (IGAD – https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/igad-community-practice ) Community of Practice, is a growing community within the agricultural data domain with at least 260 registered members. Nearly 400 participants took part in the Second Annual Virtual Meeting (Program and Abstracts –  http://aims.fao.org/RDA_IGAD_AnnualMeeting2022 ), which took place from March 22 and April 8, 2022. FAIRagro…

A joint InfraTalk with NFDI4BioDiversity, DataPlant and NFDI4Microbiota entitled “Current developments in the global Genome Commons and challenges for service provision in NFDI” was given on 16.05.2022, on research results on potential value chain of Digital Sequence Information (DSI) and ways to quantify DSI uses in science. The talk dived into current chalenges and options…

The FAIRagro partner IPK is involved in the INCREASING implementation study (IS) of the ELIXIR infrastructure. The idea of this IS is to bundle existing tools and services of the plant science community as well as provide training to ensure visibility and outreach. In frame of this the IPK is strengthening the cooperation with NFDI…

The sections are legally dependent divisions of the NFDI Association. They deal with so-called cross-sectional issues, i.e. topics that are interesting and important for all consortia. The Scientific Senate of the NFDI Association established four sections on 01.10.2021 – Common Infrastructures (section-infra), Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects (section-ELSA), (Meta)data Terminologies and Provenance (section-metadata), Training &…

We submitted our statement on our very positive review to the DFG in due time on 08.04.2022 and thus took the opportunity to point out our current developments and networking. In this way, we were able to take up and concretise the reviewers’ supportive comments.

We are pleased to announce that Juliane Fluck has been confirmed as co-spokesperson at base4nfdi. She will be responsible for the task area “Service Negotiation & Development Process Coordination” and thus actively contribute to the submission of the base4nfdi proposal and to the successful launch of the project if it is funded. Both FAIRagro and…

Geonode (https://geonode.org/) is THE open source geodata management system that many important research institutions rely on: The FAIRagro partners ZALF, Thünen, JKI and HSWT together with other institutions and the community strive for an information exchange regarding the use and further development of Geonode in the scientific field; the first meeting took place on 28.02.2022.…

On February 1, 2022, the DFG published the call for proposals for the so-called NFDI basic services. Base service initiatives are potentially intended to accommodate the needs of all subject and methodological consortia and to realize corresponding services. In the meantime, the 19 funded subject consortia have joined forces to submit a joint funding application…

FAIRagro actively contacted interested participants of the idea Secret Santa organized last year and was able to concretise initial ideas and needs in direct dialogue. We were thus able to determine the potential where and how existing Use Cases can be expanded via our planned onboarding process, as well as how planned services can be…

We submitted our proposal to the DFG on November the 2nd, 2021 and defended it in front of an international review panel on January the 17th, 2022. We have now received positive feedback and would like to thank the reviewers as well as all those involved in the consortium. We are confidently awaiting the results…