NFDI4ING Conference 2025 Darmstadt - NFDI4ING

NFDI4Ing Conference 2025

general information

Image of Lichtenberghaus as seen from the Garden with a fountain in the foreground and a tree to the left.
Conference Location: Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Haus. Copyright: Rudiger Dunker

The 2025 NFDI4ING Conference will be held in person for the first time since the start of the project, offering an opportunity to connect, collaborate, and exchange ideas across the engineering-focused NFDI consortium.

The conference brings together NFDI4ING team members as well as interested researchers and voices from the industry. Its main goal is to deepen dialogue on RDM and to work together on shared challenges and use-cases, such as integrating data literacy into engineering education, using FAIR principles in industry, and building federated infrastructures for digital objects, data products, and knowledge graphs.

The event follows a “lunch-to-lunch” format from 15 to 16 September 2025 at Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Haus in Darmstadt, with a conference dinner on the first evening.

We look forward to seeing you there!

PARTICIPATE

REGISTRATION

Please register for the conference before the registration deadline: 31.8.2025 (no extension).

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

NFDI4ING Conference welcomes short talks and posters related to the topics of the conference sessions.

Abstract submission deadline for talks and posters: 31.8.2025 (no extension)

Abstracts should have maximum length of 200 words.

At least one author of the contribution is required to register for the conference before the registration deadline.

Submit your abstract here.

Short talks are planned to be 15 min long plus discussion.

Poster size is A0 in vertical layout. Authors are kindly asked to bring the printed poster. Poster holders will be available.

There is no poster or presentation template. We will contact the presenting authors with details regarding presentations.

Preliminary agenda

Monday, 15 September 2025

11:30 – 13:00 Registration and Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Opening Session: FAIR digital objects, data products and digital twins
15:00 – 16:30 Parallel Sessions:
  • Round Table: Federated infrastructure, data meshes and knowledge graphs
  • Presentations: Policies for best practice – RFCs & Subject-specific DFG recommendations
17:00 – 18:30 Parallel Sessions:
  • Round Table: Research data management for the built environment
  • Presentations: FAIR4AI – AI4FAIR
20:00 – 23:00 Keynote and Dinner
Location: Weststadt Bar, Mainzer Straße 106, Darmstadt

Tuesday, 16 September 2025

 

09:00 – 10:30

Parallel Sessions:

  • Round Table: FAIR industry applications
  • Presentations: Data literacy in the engineering curriculum
10:30 – 11:30Coffee and Poster Session
11:30 – 12:30Closing Session: Prospects for NFDI4ING 2.0
12:30 – 13:30Lunch
14:00 – 16:00Optional: Guided tour of Rosenhöhe and Mathildenhöhe

Detailed conference programme to follow.

Download the session descriptions here.

Accommodation

Hotel contingents are available at the Welcome Hotel Darmstadt on self-paying basis, if you book before 18 August. You will receive detailed information on how to access the contingents with your registration receipt.

Address: Karolinenpl. 4, 64289 Darmstadt

Public transport link to Lichtenberg-Haus: Bus F/FM to ‘Oberwaldhaus’ from bus stop ‘Schloß’

Further accommodation in Darmstadt:

B&B HOTEL Darmstadt

Address: Zweifalltorweg 4, 64293 Darmstadt
Link to website
Public transport link to Lichtenberg-Haus: Bus F/FM to ‘Oberwaldhaus’ from bus stop ‘Hauptbahnhof’

InterCity Hotel Darmstadt

Address: Poststraße 12, 64293 Darmstadt
Link to website
Public transport link to Lichtenberg-Haus: Bus F/FM to ‘Oberwaldhaus’ from bus stop ‘Hauptbahnhof’

Best Western Hotel Darmstadt Mitte

Address: Grafenstraße 31, 64283 Darmstadt
Link to website
Public transport link to Lichtenberg-Haus: Bus F/FM to ‘Oberwaldhaus’ from bus stop ‘Luisenplatz’

Maritim Hotel Darmstadt

Address: Rheinstraße 105, 64295 Darmstadt
Link to website
Public transport link to Lichtenberg-Haus: Bus F/FM to ‘Oberwaldhaus’ from bus stop ‘Hauptbahnhof’

Contact Address

anmeldung@nfdi4ing.de

Dr. Andreas Noback

+49 6151 16-27110

Otto-Berndt-Straße 2
64287 Darmstadt