BiodiversiTea – die NFDI4Biodiversity Coffee Lecture #22

The online format BiodiversiTea offers a forum for presenting and discussing work, projects, tools and topics from and around the NFDI4Biodiversity community. Once a month, we meet online for an hour - for exciting presentations and lively discussions over a cup of tea (or coffee). The session is open to anyone who would like to find out about and discuss current developments and topics relating to biodiversity data. Membership of NFDI4Biodiversity is not necessary.

Topic in June 2026
Sustainability goes beyond Budgets: Environmental, Equity, and Economic considerations in Research Data Management for Biodiversity Data

Speaker
Dr. Giuditta Parolini (Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science)

Abstract
In research data management, sustainability is discussed mainly with reference to financial and to some extent social aspects. Environmental aspects are hardly ever considered. There is a value, however, in addressing environmental, equity, and economic factors, the three E's of sustainability, simultaneously and understand their interconnections – because research data management is not just expected to be resource efficient, but also to deliver on the values of open science and take ownership of its environmental footprint.

The research project "Promoting Sustainable Data Practices and Infrastructures in Biodiversity Science" reflects on the interplay of environmental, social, and economic sustainability in research data management with the aim to provide practical tools that the biodiversity science community can use to make its data practices and infrastructures cost-effective, socially inclusive, and lower their environmental impact.

As part of the project, a checklist was developed to include provisions for environmental, social, and economic sustainability in data policies. The talk introduces the checklist and its aims and uses it as a starting point to discuss key sustainability aspects in the management of biodiversity data. 

Questions & Feedback
The BiodiversiTea lives from your ideas! Would you like to get feedback, are you looking for collaborators, would you like to present the results of your work or would you like to discuss a topic in a larger group? Write to us at helpdesk@nfdi4biodiversity.org or via our helpdesk form and we will organise one of the upcoming lectures together.

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