Workshop | co-organized by FAIR4ChemNL and NFDI4Cat
Data-centred approaches in chemistry hold the promise of uncovering groundbreaking solutions critical for advancing energy and material transitions, pharmaceutical innovations, and circular economy endeavours. Since the FAIR4ChemNL workshop in June 2024, important developments have emerged across the Dutch and German chemistry communities – yet the potential of data to drive discovery and innovation remains underutilized, in part due to disparate data management practices and limited interoperability across disciplines.
Date: 13 + 14 October 2026 (Lunch-to-Lunch)
Location: DECHEMA-Haus, Frankfurt am Main
Participation: Invitation-based. For participation inquiries and more information write to info@nfdi4cat.org
This workshop aims to reconvene scientists, data experts, and IT specialists to review progress, align ongoing initiatives, and define concrete next steps toward implementing FAIR data principles and unified data management solutions across the chemistry disciplines. The workshop is organized in a collaborative effort by the TDCC-NES FAIR4ChemNL project consortium (the Netherlands) and the NFDI4Cat consortium (Germany).
The update meeting will bring together participants from Dutch and German academic institutions, to discuss remaining challenges and emerging solutions in chemistry digitalization, and to define a shared strategy toward common standards, interoperable workflows, and community-supported data management solutions that strengthen cross-disciplinary chemistry research.
For participation inquiries and further information, please contact info@nfdi4cat.org.
Further information about the FAIR4ChemNL project can be found on the TDCC-NES project pages, and on the FAIR4ChemNL project website.
A white paper outlining key challenges, opportunities, and recommendations for FAIR data practices in chemistry was published as an outcome of the 2024 workshop: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15050550.
