The National Research Data Infrastructures (NFDI)

The National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) is jointly funded by the German federal and state governments and can be understood as a nationwide distributed network. In total, there are 26 disciplinary consortia in the NFDI, which are divided into the four categories humanities and social sciences, engineering sciences, life sciences, and natural sciences. The different disciplinary consortia are tasked with systematically developing, sustainably preserving, and making accessible the data holdings of science and research, as well as networking them on a (inter)national level. In this way, they play an important role in the research data management of many scientific institutions. The NFDI also lists the service portals and helpdesks of the disciplinary consortia for researchers. Through the funding line FDMScouts.nrw, an overview of the organizational units was also created as a Survival Kit, as well as an overview of the services with the NFDI-N(HAW)igator.

An informal 27th funded consortium, Base4NFDI, was established, which also provides services to researchers across the disciplinary consortia. These include, among others, the marketplace for research software in nfdi.software, customized data management plans at DMP4NFDI, or a central JupyterHub via Jupyter4NFDI.

In addition to the funded consortia, there are also cross-cutting topics that are addressed as independent sections. These are:

On the NFDI YouTube channel, you can find various playlists of event series, which, among other things, present the infrastructures and tools of the consortia. One of the main events is the NFDI Roadshows, which provide an overview of current structures. The most recent recorded event is the NFDI Sections Roadshow (04.02.2026).