The GFBio Association's network meeting in 2026 marks a special occasion: we will be celebrating the association's tenth anniversary.

Five-day intensive course on working with scientific collection data

From uncertainty to evidence, the FAR-DSI project concludes after three years of connecting research, databases, and policy on Digital Sequence Information (DSI).

Motivated to join the National Research Data Infrastructure? Join our team in January 2026 as scientific coordinator in part or full time (EG 13 TVöD)

More privacy despite web analytics

Research Data Day 2025

More and more often, researchers are required to submit data management plans – for example, when applying for funding. Our expert-developed platform provides step-by-step support throughout the entire process.

In our FAR-DSI Project, we are involved in the UN negotiations on a new biodiversity agreement, which also provides for a new benefit-sharing mechanism for the commercial use of digital sequence information. Our guest article summarizes the progress made at the 16th UN Biodiversity Summit in Cali.

New topics for working groups and plenty of ideas for the further development of GFBio services – with over 40 participants and concrete results, the 2nd GFBio-seminar was once again a resounding success.

As part of our FAR-DSI project, we were in Montreal in August 2024 to accompany the preliminary negotiations of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) as part of a scientific delegation. The aim was to develop proposals on how to achieve a fair sharing of benefits from the economic use of digital sequence information without jeopardizing the open access to this data, which is so important for science.

The Executive Committee and the Secretariat are please to welcome members and staff to the second GFBio Seminar, the network meeting of the GFBio Association, on 5-6 November 2024. Entitled 'Empowering GFBio: Strengthening services, expanding the network', the exchange on the association's cross-project activities will be continued. Around 35 participants are expected to take part.

"Quo vadis, GFBio core services?" – this was the motto of the first GFBio seminar in December 2023. The aim of the invitation to Bremen was to shed light on the current status and future development of data management services.

Together with renowned partner institutions such as the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN) and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), GFBio is establishing the Knowledge Laboratory for Natural History Collection and Object-Centered Data (WiNoDa).