Exchange on Legal Aspects
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When working with biodiversity, ecology and environmental data, the practitioners in our partner network regularly encounter legal issues and challenges. To learn from each other and work out solutions together, we regularly exchange ideas on legal topics in workshops. We share our findings on this page so that you can benefit from them, too.
About the legal workshops
Contents
To facilitate participation for members of our partner institutions all over Germany, the legal workshops are held online and in German.
Participants will have the opportunity to network with peers and get insights into practical solutions to everyday legal challenges .
The focus of our first workshop was to explore current, everyday challenges and questions and to engage in an open exchange. In the second workshop, building upon the insights of our first session, we looked at practical approaches for dealing with the Environmental Information Act. Both workshops were accompanied by a legal expert.
Target group
There are no specific prerequisites and no set learning modules. Instead, the workshops aim to promote networking and provide a forum for sharing best practices and experiences with legal aspects of biodiversity data.
Participation
If you are a member of NFDI4Biodiversity and would like to participate in the next legal workshop, you will find the next dates in the Event Hub (NFDI4Biodiversity intranet).
Open educational materials
Of course, our training courses and teaching materials also benefit from the insights gained in our legal workshops.
- Legal aspects are important topics covered by our Seasonal Schools, with a focus on data protection (2022, video, slides), software licenses (2024, video, slides), and the Nagoya Protocol (2025, video, slides). Data rights, copyright and licenses were discussed in all lectures.
- Our podcast Rechtsdschungel – Recht und Ethik im Umgang mit Biodiversitäts- und Umweltdaten offers listeners comprehensive insights on a wide range of legal challenges.
- Furthermore, NFDI4Biodiversity comissioned a legal report on the publication and re-use of species occurence data exemplified by the German Ichthyological Societies Fish Atlas.
As soon as new materials are available, you will find them on this page.