Defining Energy Research Data Management Together

Stakeholders interested in and working on research data management solutions for the energy domain are invited to join the 3rd NFDI4Energy Conference in Aachen.

The Call for Papers is still open (Submission deadline: December 14, 2025)!

We warmly invite you to contribute. Further information and submission details can be found on the Conference Website.

We look forward to welcoming you to Aachen.

We are delighted to welcome new KgS-members (the KgS is the Consortium in the NFDI e. V.) to the NFDI4Energy community!
Together, we continue to strengthen the foundation for future-oriented energy research, data sharing, and collaboration across Germany.

Please join us in welcoming:

• GFZ – Helmholtz Centre Potsdam for Geosciences

• Hochschule Nordhausen

• TU Dortmund University

• Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

• Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)

• FZI Research Center for Information Technology

We look forward to working closely with all of you on advancing Researach Data Management for interdisciplinary energy system research.

Following the adoption of our unifying vision earlier this year, we are pleased to announce that NFDI4Energy has now officially adopted its mission. This marks the next step in strengthening our strategic foundation and guiding our community toward impactful progress.

NFDI4Energy Mission:

We empower energy researchers to manage, reuse, develop, publish, and communicate data and software throughout the research process. To achieve this, we train and support energy researchers in research data management and research software engineering through our services that are available in our quality-assured portfolio. By continuously improving these services, we ensure simple usability for all stakeholders. Through close partnership with industry, society, and public administration, we make additional required data available and reusable for research. This collaboration benefits industry, society, policy, and public administration by providing accessible comprehensive evidence-based information. Together, we advance energy research and work towards a secure, sustainable energy future where data drives progress.

Over the past three months, numerous events have accompanied and provided support for our work, allowing for inspiring discussions and valuable insights. To maintain a concise overview, we’ve compiled key highlights and provided links to detailed event pages and LinkedIn reports for further reading. We invite you to explore these updates and stay connected via our LinkedIn channel to follow the work of the consortium.

NFDI4Energy was present at and contributed to the following events:

FDM@Campus - Göttinger Research Alliance

• Details: September 29, 2025 - Göttingen, Germany.

• Describtion: The FDM@Campus conference gathered experts, researchers, and practitioners from various institutions to exchange experiences and best practices in research data management. The event featured interactive world cafés, hands-on sessions, and poster presentations that fostered discussions and practical insights into data-driven research workflows.

• NFDI4Energy Contribution: NFDI4Energy took part in the conference with a poster pitch and a subsequent poster session, presenting the consortium’s vision and goals. The contribution offered attendees an overview of how NFDI4Energy aims to advance the accessibility, usability, and interoperability of energy research data within the national research data infrastructure landscape.

• Further readings: Event Website and Linkedin Report.

Open Science Conference 2025

• Details: October 08 - 09, 2025 - Hamburg, Germany 

• Describtion: In 2025, the Open Science Conference returned to Hamburg as an international meeting for researchers, data stewards, librarians, policymakers, and other stakeholders to discuss developments in Open Science. The conference focused on the intersection of Open Science and AI, exploring how the growing use of AI tools in research creates new challenges and opportunities, and how these can be aligned with the core principles of transparency, accessibility, reproducibility, and reusability.

• NFDI4Energy Contribution: NFDI4Energy joined the discussion as a participant at this event.

• Further readings: Event Website 

Sharing ideas at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

• Details: October 13, 2025 - Sibiu, Romania

• Description and NFDI4Energy Contribution: NFDI4Energy representative Corinna Seiwerth visited the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. Invited by Prof. Adrian Florea, she spoke with Master’s and PhD students about Research Data Management and the work of NFDI4Energy. The visit sparked an inspiring discussion on the importance of open research data, transparency in science, and how data sharing accelerates progress and collaboration across disciplines.

• Further readings: Linkedin Report.

Tag der Energieforschung an der Leibniz Universität Hannover

• Details: October 28, 2025 - Hanover, Germany

• Describtion: At the Day of Energy Research at Leibniz University Hannover, current results from the university’s interdisciplinary energy research were presented. Researchers and interested participants were invited to showcase their work and expertise through poster presentations and to strengthen networking across disciplines. The event aimed to foster exchange and inspiration, support personal interaction, and deepen collaboration beyond faculty boundaries. It particularly promoted interdisciplinary networking and provided impulses for new research ideas and projects.

• NFDI4Energy Contribution: NFDI4Energy was happy to contribute to the discussion and showcased their work with a poster presentation.

• Further readings: Event Website 

Energieforschungskonferenz des BMWE

• Details: November 11-12, 2025 - Berlin, Germany

• Describtion: The Forschungsnetzwerke Energie met for the second time to exchange insights on innovations in energy research. This time under the theme “Energy Innovations for Competitiveness and Resilience.” The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) invited experts to discuss pathways toward the energy transition and to share research impulses from industry and academia.

  Panel discussions, thematic tables, and poster sessions facilitated not only knowledge exchange but also collaborative exploration of potential solutions.

• NFDI4Energy Contribution: Our spokesperson Astrid Nieße gave a presentation on NFDI4Energy, introducing the consortium’s activities within NFDI and highlighting how NFDI4Energy supports data and software, as digital objects for energy research, to be optimally used in research processes. NFDI4Energy furthermore presented their consortium poster and was happy to engage in networking and discussion.

• Further readings: Event Website and Linkedin Report

Data Days Niedersachsen in Braunschweig

• Details: November 24 - 26, 2025 - Braunschweig, Germany

• Describtion: The state initiative FDM-NDS invited all members, researchers, research data management professionals, and NFDI participants to Braunschweig for the second Data Days, a two-day event dedicated to information sharing, exchange, and networking. The fully in-person program featured contributions from Hochschule.digital Niedersachsen (HdN) and the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), updates from the three pillars of FDM-NDS, the FAIR Data and Software Award Lower Saxony ceremony, a marketplace with NFDI and RDM4Braunschweig, and several hands-on workshops designed for networking and discussion.

• NFDI4Energy Contribution: NFDI4Energy contributed to the event with a poster presentation and actively joined the discussion and networking opportunities.

• Further readings: Event Website

Workshop: Reducing carbon emissions in large-scale computational data analysis

• Details: November 25-26, 2025 - Berlin, Germany

• Description: The workshop was hosted by the Collaborative Research Centre FONDA, together with the Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC, University of Tübingen). Researchers from across Europe and the UK presented their work on monitoring and predicting the carbon footprint of large-scale computational data analysis and scientific workflows.

• NFDI4Energy Contribution: Mirko Schäfer from NFDI4Energy gave a presentation on “Energy system data for granular emission accounting of electricity consumption”, focusing on the need for detailed, time- and space-resolved data to accurately calculate the carbon footprint of large-scale computational analysis.

• Further readings: Event Website.

Many thanks to our representatives for their time and engagement that allowed NFDI4Energy to contribute to and be represented at these events!

Upcoming Events

If you want to get in touch with NFDI4Energy representatives, you can find them at the following upcoming events:

9. Regenerative Energietechnik Konferenz in Nordhausen: Februar 12-13, 2026 - Nordhausen, Germany

2026 Open Source Modelling and Simulation of Energy System (OSMSES): March 23-25, 2026 - Karlsruhe, Germany

3rd NFDI4Energy Conference: March 24-25, 2026 - Aachen , Germany

ABM4Energy 2026: March 30-31, 2026 - Vienna, Austria

We look forward to meeting you there!