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In 2019, German marine research, together with the federal government and the northern German states of Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, and Schleswig-Holstein, established the German Alliance for Marine Research (DAM). With this initiative, Germany has launched one of the world's largest marine research alliances.
The goal of DAM is to strengthen the sustainable management of coasts, seas, and oceans through research and knowledge transfer, data management and digitalization, as well as the coordination of infrastructures. Working together with its member institutions, DAM is dedicated to implementing an integrated and reliable data management concept for the research landscape. For the collaboration between research institutions and authorities within DAM, this entails the joint adoption of guidelines and SOPs, the shared use of data infrastructures, and the joint provision of data products to support open access to marine research data according to the FAIR principles.
