Work Programme

NFDI4Ing consists of a number of subprojects – the task areas – that together form the NFDI4Ing work programme. Individual task areas are essentially divided into two groups. As the name suggests, the overarching solutions task areas provide, maintain and coordinate activities on topics that are relevant to all other task areas in the consortium as well as provide pathways to the greater RDM landscape, e.g., to the Base4NFDI projects. To support this process, they collaborate with the archetype task areas, which focus on different method-oriented engineering science approaches. Finally, task area Management & Outreach organises the overall management of the consortium and coordinates its outreach activities.

One of the key tasks of the overarching solutions task areas is to broaden and scale products or product ideas beyond applications in a single archetype and thus prevent the generation of silos and parallel developments. Our stated aim is for the archetype task areas to work in tandem on shared tasks wherever possible, always including at least one of the overarching solutions task areas.

All task areas are committed to the overarching goals of the NFDI as described in the Bund-Länder-Vereinbarung (2018). All our task areas include activities in training & education, outreach, and activities promoting an open science landscape and furthering the development towards OneNFDI.