🔭 #LegislativeObservatory
@NFDI has participated in the association hearing by @bmftr_bund regarding the planned Research Data Act (#FDG, #Forschungsdatengesetz). In its statement, NFDI

1. welcomes the establishment of a German Center for Microdata (#DZM),
2. demands standardization of secure processing environments (#SPE) and
3. encourages additional steps towards the more general availability of #metadata.

Read the full statement here:
🇩🇪 https://www.nfdi.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/NFDI-eV_Stellungnahme-Forschungsdatengesetz-FDG_2026-02-10.pdf

Looking back at three informative and productive days of the @nfdi4immuno All-hands Meeting last week in #Berlin!

Thanks to everyone who contributed, especially our colleagues from @nfdi4bioimage, @NFDI4Microbiota, @ghga, @nfdi4health, #base4nfdi, @DFN and @HelmholtzOpenScienceOffice for joining and providing their perspective on a #FAIR data ecosystem!

#NFDIrocks #IAM4NFDI @PIDNetworkDE

Unsere Konsortialversammlung begrüßt die Zielsetzung des BMBF-Eckpunktepapiers zum #Forschungsdatengesetz, den Zugang zu wissenschaftlichen Daten im Allgemeinen zu verbessern. Hierzu hat sie am 12. April 2024 ein Statement verabschiedet.

➡ Zum Statement: https://www.nfdi.de/statement-zum-eckpunktepapier-des-bundesministeriums-fuer-bildung-und-forschung-bmbf-zum-forschungsdatengesetz/

➡ Download als PDF: https://www.nfdi.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Statement-Forschungsdatengesetz_final.pdf

#FDG #Forschungsdaten #fdm #rdm #NFDI @bmbf_bund #BMBF

The AIRR-C Meetings Sub-Committee is pleased to announce that registration is live for the AIRR-C VII Meeting June 3 - 6, 2024!

AIRR-C Meetings VII – Learnings and Perspectives will be held in-person at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, in Porto, Portugal. While we are excited to gather in large numbers this June, we understand that not everyone can travel and attend in-person.

As such, the Meeting will also be offered as a hybrid event.

REGISTER NOW:

https://whova.com/portal/registration/airrc_202406/

What is the current status of all the projects in the #Digitalstrategie of the 🇩🇪 @Bundesregierung ? Thanks to a "brief" inquiry (96 pages 😉) in the #Bundestag, we now have a broad overview, which includes: #OpenData, #DataCompetency, #EHDS, electronic health records (#EHR) for research, data infrastructure for university medicine, the Research Data Act (#FDG), #NFDI and #GaiaX. We will unpack some of them here this week, the complete document can be found under:

🇩🇪 https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/098/2009821.pdf

We, the Aktionsbündnis neue Soziale Medien (New Social Media Action Alliance) today appealed to #universities in Germany to shut down their #X (formerly #Twitter) accounts as soon as possible.

Signatures for the appeal, written as an open letter, are now being collected on the #OpenPetition platform 📝
https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/open-letter-to-the-german-rectors-conference-hrk-on-the-use-of-social-media

The appeal points out that the presence on X/Twitter does not do justice to the universities' remit to provide information because of the #disinformation and political agitation practised there. At the same time, presences should be established on #Mastodon and other services in the #Fediverse, whose decentralised and moderated design is much more compatible with the rules of democratic and sustainable coexistence.

Fully aware that this toot is likely preaching to the converted:

📢 We are retiring our Twitter/X account by the end of 2023!

You are wondering where to follow us from now on? Well, you have come to the right place: https://nfdi.social is part of a federated network that is build by open protocols and instances owned and operated by the community... basically how *all* scientific data infrastructure should be 😉

#NFDI and many consortia are stepping away from #Twitter / #X in favour of platforms that are currently more aligned with our values.
That's why we happy to happy our own Mastodon instance.

👋 We welcome all who have followed us from Twitter/X to Mastodon!

ℹ More about our reasons: https://www.nfdi.de/the-nfdi-association-and-many-nfdi-consortia-are-leaving-twitter-x/?lang=en

ℹ Do you already know our LinkedIn account? https://www.linkedin.com/company/nfdi-de/

ℹ Here are the consortia that are currently represented on Mastodon: https://nfdi.social/@NFDI/111092417530239023