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From August 26 to 28, 2025, the second Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI)<\/a> 2025 took place at RWTH Aachen University. The conference was organized by the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)<\/a> in cooperation with the Chair of Intelligence in Quality Sensing WZL at RWTH<\/a> and proved to be an extremely important event for many stakeholders in research data management (RDM) to come together. Under the motto \u201cRDM in Action,\u201d the focus was on the practical use of research data. In this blog post, we summarize the highlights of the RWTH’s RDM team and provide an insight into the event.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Over the three days of the conference, 660 experts from 13 countries took part: Australia, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia, Switzerland, Slovenia, Spain, the Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom. They took advantage of the opportunity to exchange ideas in an international setting and discuss the future of research data management together. With 140 presentations and 173 posters, the program offered an extraordinary variety of perspectives and approaches from all scientific disciplines.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The conference was opened by Professor Robert Schmitt, Head of the WZL Chair and spokesperson for the NFDI4ING consortium, who led the introductory event together with Nathalie Rathgeb from the NFDI, Professor York Sure-Vetter from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and Professor Paul Groth from the University of Amsterdam. In his speech, Schmitt emphasized the central importance of data for research and society and highlighted that it was an honor to welcome the international research data community to Aachen. Professor Dr. Sonja Herres Pawlis (Chair of Bioinorganic Chemistry<\/a>) kicked off the conference with a special experiment. With the help of Professor Dr. York Sure-Vetter, they presented a chemical experiment that produced a loud bang and smoke.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Representatives from politics and academia also emphasized the relevance of research data for scientific progress in their contributions. Dorothee B\u00e4r, Federal Minister of Research, Technology, and Space (BMFTR)<\/a>, spoke in a virtual welcome message about the necessity of open data access in order to enable high-quality research. Dr. Heide Ahrens, Secretary General of the German Research Foundation (DFG)<\/a>, highlighted the role of CoRDI as a driving force for the further development of research data management. Professor Petra Gehring from the Council for Information Infrastructures (RfII)<\/a> and Ute Gunsenheimer, Secretary General of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)<\/a>, pointed out the enormous scientific and economic importance of data.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n\t\tInternational Stage for Research Data Management<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
Opening and Welcome Speeches<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n