FIZ Legal Support within the NFDI

Legal uncertainties pose an obstacle for researchers, institutions, and infrastructure operators when it comes to publishing their own data or reusing other data in a legally compliant manner. FIZ Karlsruhe supports a wide range of domains in acquiring and expanding legal literacy with a diverse range of services within various NFDI consortia: from direct support in the form of helpdesk activities and informational meetings to training courses and workshops, to the provision of self-study materials and the preparation of expert opinions.

Direct support offers:
 

NFDI4Culture Legal Helpdesk

• Consortium:
  NFDI4Culture
• Contact at FIZ Karlsruhe:
  Grischka Petri; Oliver Vettermann; Fabian Rack
• Discipline:
  Humanities; 
  Digital Humanities
• Description:
  The Legal Helpdesk at NFDI4Culture is the central point of contact for researchers in the digital humanities when it comes to questions about copyright and data protection law. With its broad range of content and links to other areas of law such as archival law, personal rights issues, and legal ethics, the service is in constant demand. In addition, the helpdesk is available for interdisciplinary courses/teaching assignments, lectures, and workshops upon request.
  https://nfdi4culture.de/de/helpdesk.html
   

FAIRagro Legal Workshop Series

• Consortium:
  FAIRagro
• Contact at FIZ Karlsruhe:
  Lea Sophie Singson; Constantin Breß; Thomas Hartmann
• Discipline:
  Agrosystems Research
• Description:
  Under the title “Don't panic! – A Survival Guide of Law and Ethics in Research,” the FAIRagro team, in collaboration with the NFDI4Biodiversity and NFDI4Earth consortia, is offering workshops with practical case studies and interactive exercises. The topics covered include data protection, copyright, good scientific practice, the Nagoya Protocol, and legal issues relating to artificial intelligence. The Survival Guide is also explicitly designed to be reusable. Extensive open educational resources for learners and teachers are available, consisting of video recordings of the event, a teaching script, a set of slides with comprehensive lecture notes, and worksheets for group work with solutions and explanations of the didactic concept.
  https://fairagro.net/legal-workshop-series/
   

FAIRagro Helpdesk: Legal Data Steward “Data Steward Service Network“ (DSSC)

• Consortium:
  FAIRagro
• Contact at FIZ Karlsruhe:
  Lea Sophie Singson; Constantin Breß; Thomas Hartmann
• Discipline:
  Agrosystems Research
• Description:
  The FAIRagro helpdesk is the central point of contact for all researchers in agrosystems research for questions relating to research data management, including, above all, all challenges in the areas of law and ethics, in particular data protection, copyright, good scientific practice, and trade secrets. In addition, the DSSC also offers training courses, workshops, and sessions in the relevant areas.
  https://fairagro.net/helpdesk/
   

FAIRagro Law Column

• Consortium:
  FAIRagro
• Contacts at FIZ Karlsruhe:
  Lea Sophie Singson; Constantin Breß; Thomas Hartmann
• Discipline:
  Agrosystems Research
• Description:
  The FAIRagro law column, integrated into the FAIRagro blog and published at irregular intervals, offers information on community-relevant legal topics and current legal developments in the field of research data management. The posts are tailored to the community and explain even complex issues in an understandable way.
  https://fairagro.net/blog/
   

NFDIxCS Legal Helpdesk, Information, and Training

• Consortium:
  NFDIxCS
• Contact at FIZ Karlsruhe:
  Patrick Brunner
• Discipline:
  Computer Science
• Description:
  Similar to the NFDI4Culture helpdesk, the NFDIxCS helpdesk offers the opportunity to ask questions about research data management in computer science, in particular questions about legal issues relating to licensing or data protection law, and others.
  In addition, interested scientists can find information on various topics related to RDM and computer science on the NFDIxCS blog. Among other things, the blog provides an introduction to the AI Regulation and the resulting research-relevant provisions for the development and provision of AI technologies.  
  These ongoing information and support services for developing legal expertise are supplemented by various lectures and training courses on legal aspects of RDM and the development and use of new technologies, such as the Data Literacy lecture series at KIT and the NFDIxCS Summer School.   
  https://nfdixcs.org/helpdesk; 
  https://nfdixcs.org/meldung/unpacking-the-eu-ai-act-a-guide-for-the-research-community
   

NFDI4DS: Information and Training

• Consortium:
  NFDI4DS / NFDI4DataScience
• Contact at FIZ Karlsruhe:
  Stephanie von Maltzan
• Discipline:
  Data Science
• Description: 
  Based on the needs of the scientific community, best practices and information and training offerings are being developed on the topics of data science and artificial intelligence. The ELSA challenges that are increasingly arising in this context are being analyzed and prepared for the community. These include, for example, legal issues such as the legally permissible crawling of publicly available data sets, data transfer to the US, bias and how to minimize it, as well as broader ethical aspects such as gender balance and questions of diversity in and of data sets. Insights into the community and its challenges in relation to ELSA were gained through surveys and the analysis of interviews, among other things.
  In addition, summer schools, hackathons, and science slams are held annually.
  https://www.nfdi4datascience.de/contact/