Jul 13, 2026
Review: NFDI4Earth Plenary 2026 in Dresden
From May 27 to 29, 2026, the NFDI4Earth coordination team at the Chair of Geoinformatics welcomed approximately 130 participants to the annual plenary meeting at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum in Dresden. The event brought together representatives from the 67 partner institutions to reflect on the first funding phase and discuss the next steps for the consortium’s second funding phase.
The three-day program offered participants numerous opportunities for professional exchange, practical collaboration, and networking:
- Pre-event workshops on topics such as data management plans, hydroscientific use cases, scientific semantic web tools, and educational concepts for Earth system sciences
- Presentations on products, services, and use cases from the first funding phase, such as the OneStop4All portal, the Knowledge Hub, the User Support Network, as well as the NFDI4Earth Label and the NFDI4Earth Fairness and Openness Commitment.
- Interactive workshops, a software marketplace, and a comprehensive poster session to facilitate the exchange of resources, expertise, and synergies within the NFDI4Earth community
- Keynote speeches by Juha Oksanen (Geoportti / Finland), Alessandro Rizzo (Data Terra / France), and Barbara Ebert (NFDI4Biodiversity)
- Strategic discussions on the further development of NFDI4Earth
In addition to the technical program, the event also placed a strong emphasis on personal interaction among participants. The plenary session provided a forum for discussions on future requirements for research data management, FAIR data, and digital research infrastructures in the Earth system sciences, as well as for lively exchanges across consortia.
The project team from the Chair of Geoinformatics, the Chair of Meteorology, and the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) handled the general organization and also presented technical contributions in the form of talks, posters, and marketplace booths on
- the services OneStop4All and Knowledge Hub developed within the project,
- work in the context of the cultural shift toward the FAIRness and Openness Commitment, and
- new approaches to the use of government data and data analysis tools
they also co-organized interactive workshops on AI applications in Earth system sciences and synergies in service information management.
The team at the Chair of Geoinformatics would like to thank everyone involved who contributed to the success of the event. We look forward to the 2027 Plenary!
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