The NFDI Earth System Sciences consortium (NFDI4Earth) started work in autumn 2021. The project is supported by the German Earth System Science community with currently more than 50 partners from universities, research institutions, infrastructure providers and public authorities. NFDI4Earth aims to standardise existing strategies and services for research data management in the Earth sciences, setting up new ones and aligning them with the principles of openness and the FAIR principles.

Scientists at the Department of Earth Sciences and the University Library of Freie Universität are invoveld in NFDI4Earth. Contact persons are Elfrun Lehmann (Geochemistry), Ingo Kirchner (Meteorology) and Andreas Hübner (University Library).

NFDI4Earth engages with the community – be it student, professional, service provider or top scientist. Our measures guarantee that the development of NFDI4Earth is entirely driven by the community’s needs and requirements. Take a look at the participation opportunities in NFDI4Earth

NFDI4Earth is part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). The NFDI is intended to systematically develop, sustainably secure and make accessible the data holdings of science and research and to network them (inter)nationally. NFDI4Earth will be established in a process driven by the scientific community as a networked structure of consortia acting on their own initiative. The Federal Government and the German Länder are jointly funding the NFDI.