‍NFDI4Earth at the Water Research Horizon Conference 2026

Mid of September, the 16th Water Research Horizon Conference (WRHC) took place at the Erwin Schrödinger Center in Berlin, held in alignment with the DGL Annual Meeting. NFDI4Earth participated with two contributions, hosting a session and a hands-on workshop, linking its central services with the research data management needs of the water research community.

Bridging theory and practice, the session 'Future Data for water Future' was accompanied by a hands-on workshop. It invited participants to raise challenges from their daily research data management, including long-term storage, access to governmental data and metadata quality. That set the stage for presenting mainly the OneStop4All, one of the core services developed by NFDI4Earth, which supports Earth System Sciences researchers in both discovering data and choosing where to publish their own. In this context, a new target group has been identified: parts of the so-called 'boomer' generation of scientists who is due to retire in the next few years and has so far rarely published or backed up their valuable research data sets.

A big thank you to both associations hosting the WRHC, the Water Science Alliance (WSA) and the German Limnological Society (DGL), and especially to the local organising committee from the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.