Call for abstracts: 3rd NFDI4Energy Conference, March 24th - 25th, 2026, in Aachen, Germany
Defining Energy Research Data Management Together
Stakeholders interested in and working on research data management solutions for the energy domain are invited to join the 3rd NFDI4Energy Conference.
We want to bring the community together, discuss current and future research trends, and identify opportunities for cooperation. Further, we aim for convergence of the different activities in the community to a common understanding, a shared vision, and an overall goal regarding research data management. Scientific outcomes of RDM activities in this field shall be presented and discussed with the community as well.
Research data management in the energy domain is a broad topic, including handling different research artefacts like research data and research software internally, annotating research artefacts with metadata (e.g., with ontologies), and publishing these. Different tools and services are needed to support researchers in handling their research artefacts. The 3rd NFDI4Energy Conference offers a platform to discuss and exchange on different tools, services, approaches, best practices, and ideas for research data management in the energy domain. The conference will take place fully on-site in Aachen on March 24th and 25th in 2026, organized by NFDI4Energy in cooperation with RWTH. English will be the primary language of the conference. The conference is free of charge for all participants. Feel invited if working in the field or interested in current work in this area!
In 2026, for the first time, we will combine the community event with a scientific track, to give our researchers the opportunity to publish results from their scientific work. Publication will be open access, details on the outlet will be announced later.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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General aspects of Open Science in energy research
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FAIR data management in energy research
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Requirements for the adoption of FAIR data or the use of research data management in the energy domain
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Management and FAIR development of (open-source) energy research software
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Publishing of energy research data and software
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Best practices for handling and developing energy research data and software
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Transparency approaches to energy research
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Metadata schemes in energy research
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Ontologies for the energy (research) domain
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Service development for energy research data management
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Cross-disciplinary service show cases and service interoperability
The 3rd NFDI4Energy conference will provide two types of contributions:
Abstracts: Early results, discussion topics, offers to the community (as in the previous NFDI4Energy conference);
Full papers: Full scientific papers (peer reviewed).
While full papers will be subject to oral presentation, abstracts may either be chosen for oral presentations or interactive poster sessions, as has been successfully implemented in the past to realize a highly interactive program that combines talks and community interaction.
Submission Guidelines for Abstracts and Full Paper:
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Poster: Abstracts for poster should be at most 1000 words (excluding references)
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Paper: Full papers for presentation should be at most 8 pages (excluding references)
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Authors need to use the Word or Latex template provided by TIB Open Publishing.
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The submission must be in PDF format.
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Submissions should be uploaded to HotCRP.
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The review process will be double-blind.
Important dates:
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Submission deadline: 01.12.2025
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Author notifications: 06.02.2026
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Camera ready deadline: 27.02.2026
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Conference: 24.03.2026 – 25.03.2026
Conference papers will be made available as Open Access publications, if authors are interested in this option.
More information and recent updates can be found on the conference website https://nfdi4energy.uol.de/sites/conference/2026/
For questions, please get in touch with us at conference@nfdi4energy.org
