The German Data Forum is an independent advisory council to the federal government.

Target Group

• Empirical researchers particularly in social, behavioral, and economic sciences
• Politics
• Research Data Centers
• Data producers

Objectives

Improve access to high-quality data for scientific research particularly in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences as well as improving its international competitiveness.

Theme Focus

• Exchange and mediation between the interests of data producers and research data users, particularly in fields of social, behavioral, and economic sciences
• Initiating and establishing standards for the collection, storage, provision, and quality of research data
• Promoting the secondary use of research data

Activities

• Recommendations on further improving the data infrastructure
• Accrediting and evaluating research data centers
• Advising science and policy
• Monitoring legal and technological developments
• Conference for Social and Economic Data fostering scholarly and strategic debates  

Funding Organizations

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)