Members of TU Darmstadt are active in various national committees and projects dealing with scientific infrastructures. At the same time, TU members have access to various services related to scientific infrastructures at TU Darmstadt.

Participation in committees and projects

Chairperson of the Advisory Board for Information Infrastructures

Petra Gehring, Professor of Philosophy at TU Darmstadt is Joint Chairperson of the Advisory Board for Information Infrastructures. . This panel of experts advises the worlds of politics and science. In his guest article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper („Ein Flussbett für die Datenströme“ – A Channel for Data Flows), Petra Gehring talks about the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) project that has been approved by the Joint Science Conference formed by the German government and federal states. The aim of the project is to develop a nationwide network for the management of research data.

NFDI4ING

Since 2025, TU Darmstadt has been the spokesperson for the NFDI4Ing consortium. The main goal of NFDI4ING is to support engineers in all areas of research with their data management requirements.

Further NFDI project participations

TU Darmstadt is involved in other NFDI consortia in various roles. TU Darmstadt is a co-applicant in NFDIxCS and participates in many others.

Services for TU members

TU-Infra

In TU.Infra, the research infrastructure database of TU Darmstadt, you can register your own devices and gain an overview of the devices available at TU Darmstadt.

Digital research data

The “TUdata” team has been set up by the Executive Board of TU Darmstadt to support all members of the university with saving, archiving, publishing and the subsequent use of research data. The team brings together expertise from the University and State Library, the University IT-Service and Computing Centre and the Directorate for Research and Technology Transfer.

Research data management

Guidelines on how to manage digital research data at TU Darmstadt

Research Instrumentation Fund

Since 2022, TU Darmstadt has had an research instrumentation fund at TU Darmstadt, which provides approximately €1.5 million annually to finance large-scale equipment through an application process.

The equipment fund particularly supports projects that involve the shared use of large-scale equipment for innovative research activities.

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