Our mission
Academia faces enormous challenges to realign publication and evaluation practices towards a sustainable, open, transparent, diverse, equitable, and inclusive way of conducting research. However, values, attitudes, behaviours, and habits are difficult to change. Furthermore, individuals and organisations do not act isolated but in different contexts - from local to international, from labs to academic societies, from early career researchers to university leadership. This makes cultural change very demanding. It is our mission to attempt it anyways.
NFDI4Earth FAIRness and Openness Commitment
The availability of user-friendly technical infrastructure, meaningful services as well as up-to-date educational opportunities are all important elements in NFDI4Earth for advancing cultural change in the ESS research community towards FAIR and Open research data management. However, for more comprehensive success, other specifically non-technical aspects need to be addressed. One key to motivating NFDI4Earth researchers and supporting staff for cultural change is to secure the support from all stakeholders, in particular at the level of institutional and organisational leadership.
To achieve this, an overarching statement, the NFDI4Earth FAIRness and Openness Commitment (the NFDI4Earth Commitment) is developed and promoted as the common vision of NFDI4Earth. The NFDI4Earth Commitment can be endorsed by the institutions and organisations involved and related to NFDI4Earth, as well as signed by individual researchers.
Read and sign the commitment at
nfdi4earth.de/commitment.
The NFDI4Earth Commitment is intented to create a sense of identity for all actors and becomes an instrument to demonstrate values as it provides commonly accepted and manifested documentation that the signatories adhere to best practices in ESS research data management.