{"id":50795,"date":"2026-04-17T19:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/50795\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:03:21","slug":"eth-zurich-launches-the-fair-coalition-staffnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/50795\/","title":{"rendered":"ETH Zurich launches the FAIR Coalition \u2013 Staffnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cETH Zurich is proud to announce the launch of the ETH FAIR Coalition, an institution-wide initiative,\u201d says\u00a0Annette\u00a0Oxenius, Vice-President for Research, who is leading this Coalition together with Ueli Weidmann, Vice-President for Infrastructure and Sustainability. \u201cThis initiative underscores ETH Zurich\u2019s dedication to open science and collaborative research practices, ensuring that data\u00a0and other digital\u00a0assets\u00a0generated within the institution meet the highest standards of accessibility and reuse,\u201d she emphasised.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Weidmann remarks: \u201cThe Coalition aims to implement the FAIR principles\u00a0\u2013Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability\u00a0\u2013\u00a0across all digital research assets, including research data, metadata, scientific code, electronic notes and digital images.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A new charter\u00a0sets out core values and principles <\/p>\n<p>Both members of the Executive Board\u00a0seek\u00a0to foster broad engagement in FAIR-related activities, aiming to\u00a0establish\u00a0a strong FAIR community at ETH Zurich. To this end, and as announced today at the\u00a0Town Hall meeting\u00a0in the New Year, ETH Zurich has\u00a0established\u00a0a Charter that defines a shared commitment to FAIR principles.\u00a0\u201cAll\u00a0ETH\u00a0Zurich\u00a0researchers\u00a0and\u00a0staff members\u00a0are\u00a0invited to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ethz.ch\/en\/research\/open-science\/FAIR-Coalition\/signatories.html\" class=\"eth-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signtheCoalition&#8217;sCharter<\/a>\u00a0as individual signatories,\u201d\u00a0says\u00a0Annete\u00a0Oxenius.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0development\u00a0of the FAIR Coalition\u00a0will follow\u00a0an iterative process.\u00a0After\u00a0the\u00a0initial\u00a0call for individual signatures, research units (including\u00a0professorships, technology\u00a0platforms,\u00a0centres, institutes) will be invited to join the coalition in spring. This next phase will focus on\u00a0concrete steps\u00a0towards\u00a0implementing\u00a0the FAIR principles\u00a0across ETH Zurich.<\/p>\n<p>Goals of the ETH FAIR Coalition <\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0overarching\u00a0goal\u00a0is ETH-wide\u00a0adoption\u00a0of the FAIR Principles for digital research assets.\u00a0The Coalition\u00a0seeks\u00a0to achieve this by:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo support these efforts, ETH Zurich is\u00a0introducing the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ethz.ch\/en\/research\/open-science\/FAIR-Coalition\/open-call.html\" class=\"eth-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FAIR Competence Funding<\/a>,\u00a0designed to\u00a0promote existing RDM expertise\u00a0in the research units\u00a0and make it\u00a0accessible\u00a0to a wider audience\u00a0of researchers\u00a0within\u00a0ETH,\u201d\u00a0Oxenius\u00a0announces.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cETH Zurich is proud to announce the launch of the ETH FAIR Coalition, an institution-wide initiative,\u201d says\u00a0Annette\u00a0Oxenius, Vice-President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[2218,1750,15399,51],"class_list":["post-50795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-data-science","tag-funding","tag-internal-news","tag-zurich"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116421604492010322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}