FAIR Data Spaces

The FAIR Data Spaces project, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), ran from 21 May 2021 to 31 December 2024.

The FAIR Data Spaces project created organisational, legal and technical building blocks for a shared, cloud-based data space for industry and research in compliance with the FAIR principles. The project combined the federated, secure data infrastructure Gaia-X and NFDI to create a shared, cloud-based data space for industry and research in compliance with FAIR-principles.

A brief overview of the project can be found here.

The results are summarised in the presentations of the final event.

The NFDI Association and numerous universities organised in NFDI consortia represented the application domain of science. The business-orientated Gaia-X side was represented by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and Atos as representatives of the companies involved in Gaia-X. Other companies, especially small ones, were involved in 2024 through subcontracts.

Have a look into the FAIR Data Spaces Newsletter-archive!

Publications within the FAIR DS Projects can be found on the FAIR Data Spaces Community of Zenodo.

Work packages