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The roles of participants

In its Guidelines for Consortia – National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) gives the following information about participants:

“To complement the consortium’s subject-specific or information infrastructure expertise, additional participants may be integrated in the consortium. These may be natural persons and non-profit legal entities. Participants interact and contribute to the consortium and its work programme on a sustained basis. The consortium can request funds for the involvement of participants.“

Specifically, here are the responsibilities participants could take on within the NFDI4Microbiota consortium:

• Suggesting measures
• Designing standards
• Providing data and software
• Using and promoting NFDI4Microbiota output within their local research community
• Joining the User Council
• Writing Use Cases
• Giving general feedback