Information Event 1 for HMC Project Call

Thursday 20 Mar 2025, 10:00 → 12:20 Europe/Berlin

Gather.Town

Background

The HMC Project Call 2025 – funded by the Initative and Networking Fund (INF) – is inviting proposals for projects that tackle practical challenges in metadata generation and data enrichment. Selected projects can receive up to €200k in funding from the INF, which must be matched by participating centers with an equal or greater amount (≥€200k). Projects should be completed within two years. For more details on the current call and previously funded projects, please visit our HMC Project Call 2025 page and explore our past HMC projects.

During this information event, you will have the opportunity to:

• Learn more about the HMC Project Call 2025,

• Connect with our Metadata Hubs and FAIR Data Commons

• Ask questions in a live Q&A session

• Meet potential project partners,

• Pitch your project idea to find potential project partners (limited spots available –first come, first serve)

 

Target group

This event is open to all Helmholtz members and external partners (e.g. academic, non-profit or companies) interested in the HMC project call 2025.

Information on Pitch your Ideas:

• Pitch your project idea to find potential project partners
• Pitches should be 1-2 minutes (oral presentation, slides are optional) and give an inside of the project idea, goals, things you are looking forward to find in the meeting (e.g. project partner, specific expertise) 
• Please register via participant registration 
   

Agenda

Please note that the timetable is only preliminary and subject to change.

Additional information

A second event will be held on 4 April 2025, more information can be found here.

 

10:00 → 10:10 Welcome

Welcome by
- HMC Office
- Helmholtz Head Office

Speakers: Constanze Curdt (Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC), GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel), Nina Weisweiler (Helmholtz Association)

10:10 → 10:30 Introduction to the HMC

• Introduction to the HMC plattform
• Introduction pitch by HMC unit coordinators (https://helmholtz-metadaten.de/en/unit-contact)

Speaker: Constanze Curdt (Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC), GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel)

10:30 → 10:45 Introduction to the HMC Project Call 2025

Speaker: Nicole Koestner (HMC Office GEOMAR)

10:45 → 10:55 The Helmholtz Knowledge Graph and the Helmholtz FAIR data space: Potentials to connect

Speaker: Volker Hofmann (Research Centre Jülich)

10:55 → 11:15 Open Questions and Answers

11:15 → 11:30 Networking part I - Pitch your project Idea

• Pitch your project idea (1-2 min) to find potential project partners

11:30 → 12:00 Farwell and Networking part II with the HMC & beyond

• Meet our HMC unit representatives (Metadata hubs, FAIR Data Commons and HMC office)
• Inform yourself about ongoing HMC projects and other Helmholtz Information and Data Sciences platforms