National Offices

The GO FAIR US Support and Coordination office is hosted by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), University of California San Diego. SDSC is involved in other related and high profile research data efforts, including the US National Science Founation-funded West Big Data Innovation Hub and the US National Data Service (NDS). The US NDS, based at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, with Christine Kirkpatrick as Executive Director, was founded by a consortium that included academia, government, infrastructure providers, and non-profit institutions interested in creating and bridging evolving technologies and platforms that support the publication, discovery, andreuse of data. GO FAIR US was established in February 2019 as one of the first GO FAIR national offices, see the press release announcing the office start along with the declaration.

The Danish office was founded September 2021 and is dedicated to learn from and share with our international partners, and thereby help our national universities to better engage in these critical areas, relevant to all science but especially to data intensive research. The Danish National strategy for data management based on the FAIR principles, published September 2021, rests on three strategic pillars – change in the scientific practise; Acquiring sufficient data stewardship competence and training; building the needed research infrastructure and tools.

In strengthening national cooperation on these aspects, DeIC has joined the GO FAIR Initiative, with an initial focus on reinforcing national cooperation in an international context.

The GO FAIR Brazil Support and Coordination office is hosted by the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology. It is a government institute subordinate to the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication. IBICT has extensive experience in the implementation of infrastructures to support information in science and technology, and in the formulation of policies for supporting Open Science, which is well aligned with the GO FAIR initiative.
GO FAIR Brazil was established at the end of 2018 as one of the first GO FAIR national offices. The Declaration of GO FAIR Brazil was signed at the SciELO 20th anniversary event.

GO FAIR Austria is a consortium of the three universities TU Wien, Graz University of Technology and the University of Vienna. All consortium members are involved in global and national nodes of RDA and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).