NFDI4Objects at the FDM Theme Days 2025
Shaping the future - creating structures
The second Rhineland-Palatinate RDM Theme Days took place at the Academy of Sciences and Literature from 11-12 June 2025, this time under the motto Shaping the future - creating structures.
Group photo of the participants at the RDM Theme Days Rhineland-Palatinate 2025. Photo: Jennifer Wettig
The event was a direct follow-up to the first RDM Theme Days 2024, which brought together stakeholders and institutions that are actively working on establishing and expanding structures for research data management in Rhineland-Palatinate. The aim of the first theme days was to identify common challenges and fields of action and to create synergies. The result of the first RDM Theme Days 2024 was recently published in the form of a position paper on the challenges and fields of action for sustainable research data management in Rhineland-Palatinate, in which, among other things, the establishment of an RDM initiative in Rhineland-Palatinate is recommended.
The aim of this year’s RDM theme days was therefore to promote the establishment of a RDM initiative in Rhineland-Palatinate as a structural basis for a sustainable RDM landscape and the strategic connection of the state-wide structures to the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI).
In several working groups, the participants discussed the possible fields of activity as well as organisational and financing models of a RDM state initiative in Rhineland-Palatinate and the tasks and composition of a steering committee for linking the RDM structures in Rhineland-Palatinate to the NFDI and other stakeholders.
The results of the working groups were analysed in plenary discussions and form the basis for the establishment of a state RDM initiative in Rhineland-Palatinate.
NFDI4Objects is a co-operation partner of the RDM theme days and was actively involved in the event, both in the opening panel discussion and in the various working groups.
Panel discussion at the opening of the FDM Theme Days Rhineland-Palatinate 2025. f.l. Julia Schneider (moderator), John Carter Wood (NFDI4Memory, Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz), Sarah Pittroff (NFDI4Culture, Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz), Kai-Christian Bruhn (NFDI4Objects, Mainz University of Applied Sciences), Marina Lemaire (eScience Service Centre, University of Trier), Johannes Liermann (NFDI4Chem, JGU Mainz). Photo: Sandra Schröer-Spang