FIZ Karlsruhe and GWDG sign cooperation agreement

Karlsruhe, April 16, 2026 — FIZ Karlsruhe and Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Göttingen (GWDG) have signed a cooperation agreement. Both institutions have been firmly established in the German and international research landscape for many years. Through this cooperation, they are pursuing the common goal of shaping the ongoing digitization of science in a meaningful, reliable, and sustainable manner, as well as testing and further developing the operation of a distributed information infrastructure for science.

The collaboration builds on a whole series of joint projects. These include activities in consortia of the National Research Data Infrastructure, European projects such as FAIRCORE4EOSC, and work related to FAIR Digital Objects. The new agreement now creates a reliable framework for deepening this collaboration and continuing it in the long term.

The GWDG contributes its experience in setting up and operating large IT and AI infrastructures. FIZ Karlsruhe benefits from the economies of scale of a large data center. FIZ Karlsruhe, in turn, contributes expertise in the operation of distributed services and the development of user-friendly software. However, the cooperation extends beyond the two institutions. The pooling of their expertise and closer cooperation will strengthen the digital information infrastructure for science in Germany as a whole in the long term.